17 year old Light Yagami comes across a Death Note, a notebook belonging to a death god. When someones name is written in the notebook they die. Light decides to use the power of the Death Note to cleanse the Earth of evil-doers, but the heat starts to come on when Interpol begin investigating the mysterious deaths. 
 Alright, so volume one here is called Boredom, and understandably so. I felt bored for nearly the entire book. As Interpol's investigation carries on it does become more interesting just listening to Light discuss his methods of evasion. 
 Overall, I was bored. The art was nice, but aside from the Shinigami, it was fairly generic. I think Light would've made an interesting character if he hadn't devolved into "I'll rid the world of evil! But I am evil? But not" psychosis so quickly (I mean this is the first volume). How about the other characters? What other characters? His family isn't explored at all, except his convient father; L is a mysterious generic looking guy whose only trait is deductive reasoning; and the Shinigami is just there, not caring either way.