Light Yagami Biography

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Birthdate: February 28, 1986 (1989 in the anime)

Zodiac sign: Pisces

Hair color: Brown

Eye color: Brown

Height: 179 cm (5'10")

Weight: 64.1 kg (141 lbs.)

Blood type: A

Occupation: high school student, a university student, detective

Age (during the series): 17-23

Likes: justice

Dislikes: evil

Light, born on February 28, 1986, is a third-year high school student (12th grade) at Daikoku Private Academy (大国学園, Daikoku Gakuen) who also attends supplemental classes at Gamou Prep Academy at the beginning of the story. Light has a father, Soichiro Yagami, who is the head of the Police Force. Light also has a mother, Sachiko Yagami, and a younger sister, Sayu Yagami.

In Spring 2004, Light becomes a first-year student (freshman) at To-Oh University (東応大学, Tōō Daigaku), becoming one of two freshman representatives; L is the other freshman representative. During a tennis game with L at To-Oh, spectators reveal that Light was the junior high school tennis champion in 1999 and 2000. After his 2000 victory, Light quit tennis as he entered high school.

Yagami Light is a brilliant college student. Nicknamed "Kira," he uses the Death Note to create his ideal world of justice under him; its new God. Though he looks frail, Light is an extremely athletic person, with an aptitude to find an opponent's weak point. He is a genius, which adds to his notion that only he is fit to judge humanity and steer it on a proper moral course.

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Light Yagami (Japanese: 夜神月ライト, Hepburn: Yagami Raito) is the main protagonist of the manga series Death Note, created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. He is portrayed as a brilliant but bored genius who finds the Death Note, an otherworldly supernatural notebook that allows the user to kill anyone by knowing their name and face, after it is dropped by the Shinigami Ryuk. Frustrated by the status quo of a world he deems to be rotten, Light uses the Death Note to kill those whom he deems morally unworthy of life, masterminding a worldwide massacre as the vigilante Kira (キラ). Over the course of his efforts to become the god of a world free of crime, Light is hunted down by a special task-force, headed by an enigmatic consulting detective known as L.

Light YagamiDeath Note character

Light Yagami, drawn by Takeshi Obata

First appearanceChapter 1: "Boredom" (退屈, Taikutsu)Last appearanceChapter 107: "Curtain" (幕, Maku)Created byTsugumi Ohba

Takeshi ObataPortrayed byTatsuya Fujiwara (Japanese films)

Kenji Urai (musical)

Hayato Kakizawa (musical)

Masataka Kubota (TV series)

Nat Wolff (American film)Voiced byMamoru Miyano (Japanese)

Brad Swaile (English)In-universe informationAliasKira

Light Asahi (朝日月, Asahi Raito)[1]

L (from chapter 60 onward)[2]NicknameGodSpeciesHumanGenderMaleOccupationDetective and killerRelativesSoichiro Yagami (father)

Sachiko Yagami (mother)

Sayu Yagami (sister)

Misa Amane (fiancée)

In the anime adaptation, 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; his counterpart in the American film is portrayed by Nat Wolff.