Death Note - Japanese Anime The protagonist is a high school teenager who is very talented and bored of the society and the crime rate, similarly a shinigami in another realm who is also bored, throws a notebook in the human world, Light Yagami (protagonist) pick up the "Death Note" and read the instructions : 1.Those who name written on it will die. 2.The name and the person's face should be remembered so that another person with same name will not dead. 3.The cause of the dead can be controlled. 4.Without the cause the person will be dead by heart attack within 40 seconds.