The Death Note is a cartoon with Tsugumi Ohba as the original script and Xiao Jian as the painting. In August, 2003, the cartoon published the prototype story of "Death Note" in short form in the 36th issue of the magazine "Weekly Youth Jump" of Jiyingshe, and won the first place in the readers' vote. From February, 2003 to May, 2006, it was published in a serial version with the number of words *** 108, which was different from short stories.

Night God Moon is a high school student. He got a mysterious notebook called Death Note. As long as a person's name is written on it, that person will die. Night God Moon decided to use this notebook to punish those he thought were criminals. He became friends with Liu Ke, the son of the police chief, and started a game about justice and crime.