The release date for the English version of 'Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom' by
Tsugumi Ohba is Oct 2005. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Light Yagami is an excellent student with bright futures, but he is also very bored. However, everything changes when he discovers the Death Note, a journal left behind by a death deity known as a renegade Shinigami. Light has promised to utilize the Death Note's ability to eradicate evil from the world since everybody whose name appears in the notebook dies. However, when criminals start dying, the police sent the fabled detective L to find the murderer. Will Light lose sight of his life, or his noble objective, with L chasing him?
Idleness
As L and the police move in, Light explores the limits of the Death Note's abilities. Fortunately, Light's father oversees the Japanese National Police Agency and leaves important case files scattered about the home. Light can stay one step ahead of the authorities thanks to his access to his father's archives. However, who is this odd guy after him, and how can Light protect himself against adversaries whose identities he is unaware of?