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Asao Konishi is the resident computer specialist of Blue Ship, the bio-terror cell at the center of L: Change the WorLd. Skittish and easily cowed, he is valued only for the keyboard skills that might unlock a stolen antidote, and his frayed nerves make him a constant target for the people he serves.

Daisuke Matoba directs NPO Blue Ship, the bio-terror outfit that drives the plot of L: Change the WorLd. He preaches about purging humanity to heal the planet, yet his devotion is a mask: what truly moves the cold, grasping director is the fortune he expects to pocket by selling the deadly virus.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the United States agency, under the Department of Justice, that handles federal crime and domestic intelligence. In Death Note, the bureau enters the Kira case when a dozen of its agents fly to Japan, a deployment that ends in catastrophe and repeatedly turns its own people into casualties of the notebook.

Hatsune Misawa hides a vicious streak behind a soft, courteous face. A member of Blue Ship in L: Change the WorLd, she greets her victims with apologies before drawing a blade, takes open pleasure in cruelty, and treats death, her own included, as something barely worth a second thought.

Ichigo Berry is a chart-topping idol trio in the Death Note television drama, fronted by Misa Amane alongside Mako Kitano and Serina Kudo. Their concerts open the series and keep pulling characters back, weaving the pop act directly into the unfolding Kira investigation.

The International Criminal Police Organization, widely known as Interpol, coordinates cooperation among police forces across its many member nations from headquarters in Lyon, France. In Death Note, it is the body that first sounds the alarm over Kira and reaches out to the legendary detective L for help.

The Japanese Task Force is the secret unit that leads the domestic hunt for Kira. Assembled by the detective known as L once he concludes the killer is operating inside Japan, it gathers a handful of officers willing to risk their lives, keeping their identities hidden as they chase an enemy who kills by name.

Kimiko Kujo, also called K, is the central villain of L: Change the WorLd. A Wammy's House alumna turned viral researcher, she partners with the bio-terror group Blue Ship in a plan to cull most of humanity with an engineered virus, convinced that mass death is the only path to a better world.

The Kira worshipers are a cult of believers who revere the unseen killer Kira as a divine savior. As his public approval swells after the story's time skip, these devotees multiply, holding candlelit vigils in his honor and praying for his return even after the killings cease.

The Mafia is a West Coast American crime syndicate that throws in with Mello in his race to catch Kira. Hungry for the power a notebook promises, the gang trades muscle and resources for Mello's brilliance, a partnership that drags it straight into the heart of the Kira case and, ultimately, to ruin.

Within Japan's law enforcement structure sits the National Police Agency, the body that knits the country's prefectural forces into one coordinated system. It makes no arrests of its own, yet when Kira surfaces, this bureau becomes the quiet financial and organizational backbone behind the hunt for him.

NHN is a Tokyo news network that becomes Kira's mouthpiece when Teru Mikami selects its star anchor, Kiyomi Takada, as the killer's official spokesperson. Through its broadcasts, the station turns from an ordinary news outlet into a stage for the cult of Kira and a target in the war against him.

Sakura Television, the broadcaster most viewers simply call Sakura TV, builds its fortune on spectacle rather than truth. As Kira's influence spreads, the channel reinvents itself around him, and its airwaves end up serving as a stage that schemers on every side exploit to bait their enemies.

Shin Kagami gives the eco-extremist outfit Blue Ship both its founding vision and its scientific doctrine. A doctor convinced the planet needs culling to survive, he authors the manifesto his followers rally behind, only to be cut down by the very ally who twists that vision toward profit.

The Special Provision for Kira, shortened to SPK, is the handpicked American answer to the Kira problem after L's death. Drawn from intelligence and federal ranks and commanded by his successor Near, the cell stays deliberately tiny, guarding its secrets and operating at arm's length from Japan's own investigators.

Tamotsu Yoshizawa ranks second only to Matoba within Blue Ship, the doomsday outfit at the heart of L: Change the WorLd. A goateed enforcer in the film and a scheming deputy in the novel, he meets a fittingly cruel end, gunned down by a subordinate he spent the whole story belittling.

Yoshida Productions, a Japanese talent agency, represents the model and actress Misa Amane. Unremarkable on its face, the firm is pulled into the Kira case when the Task Force borrows its name and offices, first to mask undercover officers and finally to corner the Yotsuba Kira.

A sprawling Tokyo-based conglomerate, the Yotsuba Corporation keeps a hand in everything from heavy industry to resorts. Behind its corporate sheen hides a darker engine of growth: its technology chief, Kyosuke Higuchi, who wields the powers of Kira to murder the executives standing between Yotsuba and dominance.

The Yotsuba Group is the cabal of eight company executives who turn the Yotsuba Corporation into a murder machine. Assembled by Kyosuke Higuchi once he inherits the Death Note and the mantle of Kira, the eight gather in secret to decide whose death will best fatten their company's bottom line.