In the manga, Light had a final conversation with Ryuk, desperately pleading for his Shinigami to help save him, and pronounced one of Death Note's best quotes: "I don't want to die!" Ryuk refused ...

However, shinigami Ryuk appeared and explained a "Death ... to this initial spark of an idea before generating the manga known as Death Note. "The Taro Kagami Story" is somewhat similar but ...

Unlike most shonen protagonists with tragic pasts, Death Note's Light Yagami had no reason to fall to the dark side, yet he did breaking the mold.