Initially skeptical, Light tests the notebook and realizes its power is real. Bored with his mundane life and disgusted by the crime rotting society, he decides to become the god of a new world, judging criminals under the alias "Kira." However, the unexplained deaths of criminals attract the attention of the world's greatest detective, known only as "L," sparking an intellectual war of attrition.
In the anime, Light finds the notebook and kills the criminal in a few seconds. In Death Note Vol 1 Epub , we spend pages inside Light's head. We watch him debate the morality, test the note on a petty thug, and then rationalize the murder to himself. Because the manga has no runtime limit, Ohba spends more time on the "science" of the notebook. Death Note Vol 1 Epub