Light Yagami(Japanese:夜神月(ライト),Hepburn:Yagami Raito) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the manga series Death Note, created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. He is a bored young genius who finds the Death Note dropped by the Shinigami Ryuk by pure chance. Using the notebook, which allows its owner to kill anyone simply by knowing their name and face, Light becomes a serial-murderer known as Kira(キラ) in an attempt to create and rule a utopia cleansed of criminals, with him at the helm as a "god".