Light Yagami is a brilliant, but bored, high school student who resents the crime and corruption in the world. He finds life boring with no interest or fun. His life undergoes a huge change when he discovers a mysterious notebook, known as the "Death Note", that dropped from the sky on his school grounds. The Death Note's instructions claim that, if a human's name is written within it, that person shall die. Light is initially skeptical of the Death Note's authenticity, believing it is just a prank just like all the other prank link messages.