In the first episode of the anime ryuk tells light that if he gives away the death note then he will be forced to wipe his memory.

Anime death note light and ryuk. Ryuk is a fictional character in the manga series death note created by tsugumi ohba and takeshi obata. There are rules concerning the human owner of a death note. In an effort to amuse himself he steals a second death note and drops it into the human world for someone to find. A 17 year old genius high school student light yagami notices the said book in the middle of the street and picks it up.

Light laughs until ryuk shows light the death note revealing that light s name was written in the book. Ryuk リューク ryūku is a shinigami who indirectly gives light yagami a death note after becoming bored with the shinigami realm. He was the one who inadvertently gave light yagami the death note and instigated his killing spree. In death note relight 1.

He would later become the main antagonist of the one shot special chapter set after the events of the original series. He is a bored shinigami that drops a death note a notebook that allows the user to kill anyone simply by knowing their name and face into the human world in order to have relief from his boredom. Fans believe that the shinigami is actually light due to his appearance and his desire to go to the human world. Ryuk is the deuteragonist of the anime manga series death note.

One day ryuk bored by the shinigami lifestyle and interested in seeing how a human would use a death note drops one into the human realm. In the anime adaptation ryuk. Light tries to stop ryuk passing through the shinigami. The events and happenings in death note start out in shinigami home of the death god ryuk who has apparently dropped his book death note on earth after boredom drove him to visit the planet.

A shinigami as a god of death can kill any person provided they see their victim s face and write their victim s name in a notebook called a death note. If light dies as the owner of the death note ryuk must write light s name in the death note. Death note stylized as death note is a japanese manga series written by tsugumi ohba and illustrated by takeshi obata the story follows light yagami a teen genius who stumbles across a mysterious otherworldly notebook. Justice which soichiro yagami had taught light since his childhood.

Visions of a god a film that retells the events of the anime series a shinigami asks ryuk about what happened when he dropped his notebook and went to earth.

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