Death Note

When high school student Light Yagami finds a murder notebook called the "Death Note", able to kill any persons he recognizes by simply writing their names into it, Light begins mass murdering criminals with heart attacks in hopes to create a world free of evil and to eventually become its god. Light is soon visited by the Death Note's owner, a Shinigami named Ryuk, who allows Light to keep it but must stay near him. After it becomes apparent someone is killing a large number of people, Light anonymously receives the nickname "Kira". The Japanese National Police Agency, or "NPA", along with a mysterious detective known only as "L", decide to find and arrest him as a murderer. L realizes that Kira needs to know the faces of those he kills, causing a few Japanese investigators to stop aiding the search in fear of their lives. L later requests the FBI's help to investigate all NPA members involved in the Kira Case when he suspects one of them may be related to Kira. One FBI agent follows Soichiro Yagami, Light's father and one of Kira's investigators, and his family. Light discovers his tail, and uses the Death Note elaborately to learn the name of the agent. Ohba used "Boredom" as the title of chapter 1 as that was the reason why Ryuk dropped his notebook and why Light picked it up. He had no hesitation in choosing "boredom" even though Light's motivation was not purely boredom. Ohba selected "L" for the second chapter because he wanted to establish L as the second main character; in addition the chapter was about L. Ohba added that this is the only chapter name consisting of a single romanized letter, "perhaps" stemming from a respect for L. "Family" was chosen because of the introductions of Soichiro and Sayu, Light's father and sister, respectively; the chapter reveals that the main Kira investigator is Soichiro. In addition "Family" was chosen because Light stated that he was willing to kill his family if he needed to. When selecting the name of Chapter 4, which is about the hiding of the Death Note, Ohba considered "Current", "Destruction", and "False Bottom". He believed "Current" was the best choice. Chapter 5, "Eyeballs", is about the Shinigami eye trade. Ohba believed that "Eyes" and "Trade" solely were not interesting names, and that "Eyeballs" "sounded cooler".[13] The name of Chapter 6, "Manipulation", originates from Light's experiments on the manipulation of Death Note victims. Sōsa written with different kanji means "investigation". Ohba had considered that name, but he believed that the name of the chapter needed to be focused on Light's actions, as the chapter had few scenes with investigators. Chapter 7 was named "Target" since Kiichiro Osoreda attempted to shoot Ryuk with a gun, and because Light was trying to uncover Raye Penber's real name.