Characters

Adolf Tucker is a member of the SPK, the task force assembled by Near to bring down Kira. Created solely for the anime special Death Note Relight 2: L's Successors, he is among the agents who perish when Kira turns the Shinigami Eyes against the organization's headquarters.

Aiber is a professional con man who occasionally handles dirty work for the detective L. Smooth, multilingual, and addicted to risk, he is brought into the Kira investigation to infiltrate the Yotsuba Group through a web of borrowed identities.

Ami Hamazaki is an actress in the world of Death Note, cast to play Oryo in an upcoming NHN period drama about the historical figure Sakamoto Ryoma. She appears briefly during a televised New Year's music broadcast hosted by Kiyomi Takada.

Anthony Rester is the second-in-command of the SPK, the American team that takes up the hunt for Kira under Near's direction. Calm and unfailingly loyal, he serves as the unit's operations leader and stays the agent closest to Near throughout the case.

Arayoshi Hatori is one of the eight executives of the Yotsuba Group who meet in secret to steer Kira's killings for corporate gain. As the company's vice president of marketing, he owes his post to family ties, and he becomes the first of the group to fall victim to its own weapon.

Arire Weekwood is an agent of the FBI sent to Japan as part of the international effort to unmask Kira. He becomes one of the investigators killed in a single coordinated strike when Light Yagami turns the Bureau's own people against one another.

Armonia Justin Beyondormason is a high-ranking Shinigami trusted above all others by the Shinigami King. Known for his deep command of the realm's laws, he is the messenger who reveals to Sidoh that Ryuk has made off with his Death Note.

Asaji Mainichi is a small-time criminal in the early chapters of Death Note, one of the many petty offenders Light Yagami eliminates while under L's watch. His death forms part of Light's scheme to appear innocent before the observing Task Force.

Atsushi Majime is a petty thief in Death Note, killed by Kira during the stretch when Light Yagami targets minor criminals to throw L off his trail. He belonged to a small trio of low-level crooks who worked together.

Ayame Asaoka is a celebrated singer in the world of Death Note and a recent winner of a top recording prize. She steps in at a major New Year's broadcast when Misa Amane proves unable to appear, taking the coveted opening slot.

Beck Wallese is a member of the American Mafia faction that comes to possess a Death Note during the Kira conflict. He appears only briefly, as one of the criminals Light Yagami sets out to identify and eliminate through Misa Amane.

Calikarcha is a low-ranking Shinigami remembered chiefly for his bizarre design, which stands out even among the death gods. A fleeting background figure in Death Note, he is glimpsed scribbling in his Death Note during the opening episode and is noted for an odd fondness for blueberries.

C-Kira is the fifth person to take up a Death Note in the series, wielding a spare notebook dropped by the Shinigami Midora. Unlike the killers before them, C-Kira claims only the elderly who long for death, a quiet campaign that Near dismisses outright.

Danny Bloyer is a minor member of the American Mafia in Death Note, living under the cover identity Robert Rangdon. He surfaces only as one name on the roster of mobsters that Light Yagami has Misa Amane comb through, and his alias is a quiet wink at a famous fictional symbologist.

Daril Ghiroza is a senior female Shinigami marked by an ornate, Asian-styled design. She never visits the human world, yet she earns a footnote in the manga's making as the death god first considered, then passed over, for the job of chasing a fallen notebook to Earth.

Created for the animated special L's Successors, Daril Mocry is a minor SPK agent serving under Near. He dies alongside most of the unit when Kira's side exposes the team, panicking in his last moments before a heart attack takes him.

David Hoope serves as President of the United States in the Death Note manga. Drawn into the struggle over the notebooks, he authorizes Near's SPK before falling under Mello's control, and his desperate bid to break free of that grip ends in his own suicide.

Deridovely is a gambling-obsessed Shinigami styled like a classic grim reaper, all bone mask and pale wrappings. A minor presence among the death gods, he mostly shares games with Gook and an easily distracted Ryuk before the tale shifts to the human world.

Eddie is a heavyset enforcer in the American Mafia within Death Note. His brief role centers on guarding a captured hostage, and he is presumed to die when authorities storm the criminal organization's headquarters.

Eiichi Takahashi is one of the eight Yotsuba Group executives who secretly meet to steer Kira's killings. A vice president dismissed by his peers as a lightweight, he is nonetheless the only member to voice unease at the group's growing ruthlessness.

Ellickson Gardner is one of the original agents of the SPK, the special unit formed to track down Kira. A peripheral member of Near's team, he perishes in the wave of deaths that follows the Mafia's theft of a Death Note.

Elliot Schmidt is an SPK investigator written exclusively for the animated special L's Successors. Assigned under Near to bring down Kira, he carries the unwanted distinction of being the first member of the team to die.

Emi is a young woman briefly referenced in Death Note as one of Light Yagami's past girlfriends. She never actually appears in the story, surfacing only in passing dialogue and in a jealous aside from Misa Amane's diary.

One of the first faces in Death Note, the man who runs Light Yagami's high school English class barely registers as a character. Even so, the lines he reads aloud carry a quiet weight, hinting at the grim road the story is about to travel.

Eriko Aizawa is the wife of Japanese Task Force detective Shuichi Aizawa and the mother of his two children. A devoted homemaker, she worries about a husband whose dangerous, all-consuming police work keeps him away from the family, and her brief scenes underline the personal cost of the Kira investigation.

Freddi Guntair is the senior FBI agent placed in charge of the twelve operatives secretly dispatched to Japan at L's request to investigate the police during the Kira case. Appearing chiefly in the live-action film series, he heads the team's research before becoming one of the Death Note's casualties.

Gelus is a gentle, doll-like Shinigami remembered for a single act of love: he sacrificed his own existence to spare the life of the human idol Misa Amane. His story reaches the audience through a flashback in which Rem teaches Misa the one sure way to kill a god of death.

George Sairas is the President of the United States during the height of Kira's influence. Cast as a weak and indecisive leader, he becomes the face of America's capitulation, publicly withdrawing the nation's opposition to Kira out of fear for his own life.

Ginzo Kaneboshi is a wealthy financier who runs a large company while operating ruthlessly as a loan shark. His death becomes a test of identity during the Yotsuba arc, used by Kyosuke Higuchi to confirm that Misa Amane is the second Kira.

A longtime Mafia hand serving Rod Ross, Glen Humphreys, born Ralph Bay, helps his crew grab and hold a Death Note. He plays a supporting part in the gang's short-lived, ill-fated run with the deadly notebook before it claims him.

Gook is a minor Shinigami best known for idling away his time gambling in the Shinigami Realm. With the skull of a horned beast for a head, he appears mostly in the background of Ryuk's world, a small piece of the lazy, listless society the gods of death call home.

Haley Belle counts among the dozen FBI agents who travel to Japan to support L's hunt for Kira. In the manga he is little more than a name mentioned in passing, though a handful of adaptations grant him a small, sometimes tragic, role of his own.

Halle Lidner is a member of the SPK, the elite unit assembled by Near to bring down Kira. A former Secret Service and CIA operative, she walks a careful line between Near and his rival Mello, feeding information to both and ultimately playing a quiet but pivotal hand in Kira's defeat.

Hideki Ide is a detective of the Japanese Task Force hunting Kira. Quick-tempered and deeply skeptical of L, he quits the investigation early on, only to return through his own off-the-books detective work and his loyalty to his closest friend on the force, Shuichi Aizawa.

Hideki Ryuga is a celebrated Japanese singer and screen actor who headlines his own TV program. His biggest part in the plot is indirect: he is the genuine owner of the name L borrows as a false identity, a pick that quietly doubles as a trap for Kira.

Hirokazu Ukita is a young, brave detective on L's Japanese Task Force. Quick-tempered and prone to acting on feeling, he becomes one of the case's earliest casualties after charging in to halt the second Kira's broadcast, and his death hands L a vital clue about her method of killing.

Hitoshi Demegawa runs Sakura TV with a single guiding instinct: chase ratings at any cost. The pudgy, attention-hungry broadcaster turns the rise of Kira into a media spectacle, eventually crowning himself the killer's televised mouthpiece before his own greed pushes him too far.

Ill Ratt is an SPK operative secretly feeding information to Mello. Planted inside Near's organization, the quiet agent funnels intelligence about the Death Note to the rival successor until the betrayal finally costs him his life.

A To-Oh University undergraduate, Imai is a bit player whose lone moment turns on campus gossip about the budding romance between Light Yagami and classmate Kiyomi Takada. His bitter, envious reaction to the new couple earns him a stinging nickname from a peer.

Ito Shiroba is a motorcycle traffic officer whose routine stop of a speeding driver makes him an unwitting casualty in the hunt for Kira. His abrupt death hands L a crucial clue about how the killer is able to strike.

Jack Neylon, real name Kal Snydar, is a minor mobster who ends up registered to Sidoh's Death Note once the Mafia tears it away from Japan's police. Coerced into the Shinigami Eyes bargain, he becomes the gang's tool for killing to order.

Appearing only in the 2020 Death Note one-shot, the Japanese Prime Minister is a bit player. As nations scramble to buy the notebook, he dismisses the idea of an international summit, certain that the cursed book will land in someone's possession no matter what anyone does.

Going by John McEnroe though really named Larry Conners, this FBI agent signs on with Near's SPK. He serves as a link between US and Japanese law enforcement amid the Kira case and the Mafia abduction scheme that pries loose one of the Death Notes.

John Skyner is an SPK agent who appears only in the special Death Note Relight 2: L's Successors. He is among the operatives Teru Mikami wipes out once Kiyomi Takada feeds him their names and faces from the agency's own files.

Jose is a member of Rod Ross's Mafia who turns a tense standoff into a sudden bloodbath. Playing dead during the Task Force raid on the gang's hideout, he ambushes Soichiro Yagami in a last bid to seize the Death Note.

Kanichi Takimura runs Japan's National Police Agency until Mello's Mafia abducts him to use as leverage for a Death Note. His killing sets off the kidnapping that finally pressures Soichiro Yagami into handing the notebook to criminals.

Kanzo Mogi is one of the quietest and most reliable members of the Japanese Task Force. A towering, tight-lipped detective, he proves an invaluable intelligence asset throughout the Kira investigation and even goes undercover as Misa Amane's manager.

Kazuhiko Hibima is a television anchorman who becomes one of Kira's on-air victims. His broadcast death, delivered as punishment for branding Kira a devil, gives the Task Force chilling proof of the killer's reach.

One of six jailed convicts Light Yagami picks as test subjects, Ken Yadanaka dies to help map what the Death Note can and cannot do. The message he leaves behind, a piece of a cipher aimed at L, feeds the early data Light uses to learn the notebook's rules.

Kiichiro Osoreda is a drug-addicted criminal whom Light Yagami manipulates through the Death Note. Forced to hijack a bus full of passengers, Osoreda becomes the unwitting tool by which Light tricks FBI agent Raye Penber into revealing his badge and name, sealing the agent's fate.