Death Note

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects and he's bored out of his mind. Everything changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami, a death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light vows to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. When criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer. With L hot on his heels, will Light lose sight of his noble goal—or his life?