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Death Note

Death Note. Tsugumi Ohba wrote this manga series and drew it, too. The plot revolves on Light Yagami, a juvenile prodigy who finds a strange notebook known as the "Death Note" which formerly belonged to the Shinigami Ryuk and provides the user the magical power to murder anybody whose name is inscribed in its pages. The series follows Light's subsequent attempts, under the alias of a god-like vigilante named "Kira" to use the Death Note to carry out a worldwide massacre of individuals he deems immoral in order to create a crime-free society, as well as the efforts of an elite Japanese police task force led by enigmatic detective L to apprehend him. There's a half decent wikipedia entry on Death Note over at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Note