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 a supernatural notebook called a Death Note which was dropped by the Shinigami Ryuk. Using the notebook, which allows its owner to kill anyone simply by knowing their name and face, Light becomes a serial-killer known as Kira (キラ) in an attempt to create and rule a utopia cleansed of criminals, with him at the helm as its "God".
In the animeadaptation, he is voiced by Mamoru Miyano in Japanese and by Brad Swaile in the English version. In the live-action film series, he is portrayed by Tatsuya Fujiwara with Swaile reprising his role as his English dub voice; he is portrayed by both Kenji Urai and Hayato Kakizawa in the musical; in the TV drama, he is portrayed by Masataka Kubota; and his counterpart in the American film is portrayed by Nat Wolff.
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