Death Note is an anime about a book called the Death Note. It’s a notebook that belongs to a Shinigami, that’s Japanese for reaper. It has the power to kill anyone without a trace leading to you. A Shinigami called Ryuk “accidently” drops his Death note down to Earth on a high school campus. Light Yagami, a student at the school happens to stumble upon the Death Note. To sum the rest of the story up, Ryuk and Light both develop a plan to “cleanse the world by killing multiple criminals a day for over five years.
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