Ryuk ( Japanese: リューク, Hepburn: Ryūku) is a fictional character in the manga series Death Note, created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. He is a bored Shinigami that drops a Death Note, a notebook that allows the user to kill anyone simply by knowing their name and face, into the human world to find relief from the boredom of his own realm.

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Ryuk generally is interested in what Light has to say because the guy is so darn different. He serves as someone for Light to constantly vent to and voice all his beliefs to when no one else is around that will truly get him.

The inside of a Death Note looks like that of a school notebook and contains ruled white pages. Regardless of how many names are written in it, the notebook will never run out of pages.

The Death Note is discovered by Light, and Ryuk follows him around for much of the series to see how Light uses it. As Ryuk explains when he first meets Light, he will take Light’s life when his time comes.

After Light’s death, Ryuk asks L if he will to use the Death Note, and when L says that he won’t, Ryuk calls L boring and flies away. He is last seen several months later, laughing and circling around Tokyo Tower.

In the pilot chapter of Death Note, Ryuk is the master of two Death Notes which he drops into the human world; Taro Kagami picks up the first one, and Ryuk talks to Taro. The other is picked up by Taro’s classmate, Miura. The police burn Miura’s book, not knowing of the existence of the first book.