Light Yagami

Light Yagami
Death Note character
Light Yagami, drawn by Takeshi Obata
First appearance	Chapter 1: "Boredom" (退屈, Taikutsu?)
Created by	Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata
Voiced by	Mamoru Miyano (Japanese) Brad Swaile (English)
Portrayed by	Tatsuya Fujiwara (Japanese films) Kenji Urai (musical) Hayato Kakizawa (musical) Masataka Kubota (TV series) Nat Wolff (American film)
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Aliases	Kira Light Asahi (朝日月, Asashi Raito) L (from chapter 60 onward)
Relatives	Soichiro Yagami (father) Sachiko Yagami (mother) Sayu Yagami (sister) Misa Amane (fiancée)

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 the Death Note dropped by the Shinigami Ryuk by pure chance. Using the notebook, which allows its owner to kill anyone simply by knowing their name and face, Light becomes a serial-murderer known as Kira (キラ) in an attempt to create and rule a utopia cleansed of criminals, with him at the helm as a "god".

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; and his counterpart in the American film will be portrayed by Nat Wolff.

Tsugumi Ohba, the story writer of Death Note, said that his editor suggested the family name "Yagami" for Light. Ohba said that he did not feel "too concerned" about the meaning of the name (the Kanji for "Yagami" are "night" and "god"); he said that after he created the final scene in the manga he "liked" that the final scene created "deeper significance" in the name, of Kira worshippers worshipping him at night under the light of the moon.