Tsugumi Ohba

Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the perpetrator. An all out battle between the greatest minds on earth begins, the winner controlling the world. (imdb)

Shinigami own notebooks called "Death Notes" which are used as killing devices. Whoever's name they write down in a death note will die within 40 seconds. Shinigami Ryuku accidentally dropped his Death Note in the human world where it's found by honor high school student Light. With the death note actually having directions in it for its use, Light discovers he now has the power to discreetly kill people... (imdb)

The film chronicles the final 23 days of L's life, as he solves one final case involving a bioterrorist group that aims to wipe out much of humanity with a virus with ten times the infectiousness of Ebola, taking a boy, the sole survivor of its use in a village in Thailand, and a junior high schooler named Maki Nikaido under his wing. (wikipedia.org)

Four years after Light triumphed at L's grave, he's taken on the persona of the "new L" and become an officer in the National Police Agency. When Kira uses fear and power to gain control of the entire world, L's successor Near uses the forum of the SPK to name her as the new embodiment of L, and implore the Japanese Task Force to snuff out Light before its too late (animenewsnetwork.com)

See through the eyes of a shinigami. Light and L battle over the Death Note and now you can see what the story looks like from Ryuk's point of view. When the shinigami Ryuk drops his Death Note purposely in the human world, he had no idea that a human would go as far as Light did who picked it up. (imdb)

Moritaka Mashiro, a junior high student, forgets his notebook in class. His classmate Akito Takagi, notes Mashiro's drawings in it and asks him to become a manga artist to his stories. (imdb)

An update to the "Death Note" series in which a mysterious notebook contains deadly powers. (imdb)