Death note. / story by Tsugumi Ohba ; art by Takeshi Obata ; [translation & adaptation, Pookie Rolf].

Originally published in Japanese in 2003 by Shueisha, Inc.

Read from right to left.

V. 1. Boredom -- v. 2. Confluence -- v. 3. Hard run -- v. 4. Love -- v. 5. Whiteout -- v. 6. Give-and-take -- v. 7. Zero -- v. 8. Target -- v. 9. Contact -- v. 10. Deletion -- v. 11. Kindred spirit -- v. 12. Finis -- v. 13. How to read.

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects - and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Noteto rid the world of evil. But 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?

Translated from the Japanese.