Death Note (デスノート, Desu Nōto) is a Japanese Manga series created by writer Tsugumi Ohba and illustratorTakeshi Obata . The series centers around a high school student who discovers a supernatural notebook that allows him to kill anyone by writing the victim's name and picturing his or her face. The plot follows his attempt to create and lead a world cleansed of evil using the book, and the complex conflict between himself and those assailing him that results.
Death Note was first serialized by Shueisha in the Japanese manga magazine Weekly Shounen Jump from the first issue in December 2003 to May 2006, with 108 chapters in total. The series has been published in its entirety in 12 tankobon volumes in Japan and in North America. The series has been adapted into a pair of live-action films released in Japan on June 17,2006 and November 3,2006 and an anime series which aired in Japan from October 3, 2006 to June 26, 2007. Also, a novel based on the series, written by light novelist Nisio Isin, was released in Japan on August 1, 2006.
Misa Amane (弥 海砂, Amane Misa)
A girl with an immense crush on Kira, Misa is a popular idol in Japan. She is immature and tends to refer to herself in the third person in an attempt to be cute. Misa is completely devoted to Light, and she once said that she loved him at first sight. Light, however, only views her as an asset to his plans because of her Death Note and her Shinigami eyes (that she obtained at the cost of half of her remaining life span, twice). Misa devotes herself to Light because he killed her parents' murderer after several trials had failed to convict him.
A girl with an immense crush on Kira, Misa is a popular idol in Japan. She is immature and tends to refer to herself in the third person in an attempt to be cute. Misa is completely devoted to Light, and she once said that she loved him at first sight. Light, however, only views her as an asset to his plans because of her Death Note and her Shinigami eyes (that she obtained at the cost of half of her remaining life span, twice). Misa devotes herself to Light because he killed her parents' murderer after several trials had failed to convict him.
