You're sitting silently in your classroom, looking out the window in a daze. Suddenly you see something fall out of the air that looks like a notebook, you thought you imagined it. At the end of the school day, you start to walk home as usual until you see the same object from earlier. You pick it up and it says "DEATH NOTE" ... just then, you turn around to see a monstrous figure floating above you: a Shinigami ...

"Hey there, how's it goin? The name's Ryuk..."