Death Note is a Japanese television drama series based on a manga series illustrated by Takeshi Obata.
 The series centers around Light's subsequent attempts to use the Death Note to carry out a worldwide massacre of individuals whom he deems immoral and to create a crime-free society, using the alias of a god-like vigilante named "Kira", and the subsequent efforts of an elite Japanese police task force, led by enigmatic detective L, to apprehend him
 Author Tsugumi Ohba wanted to create a suspense series because the genre had few suspense series available to the public

