Light Yagami was born on February 28, 1986. He is portrayed as an attractive teen genius and a model student with a polite, reserved, and gentleman-like personality, who is popular among his peers and teachers and is known for being the class topper. At the beginning of the story, Light is a student in his last year of high school; he later attends . His father, Soichiro Yagami, is the chief of the National Police Agency and the head of the task force hunting for "Kira", the name the public has given to the perpetrator of a string of inexplicable murders around the world. His mother, Sachiko, is a housewife. His younger sister, Sayu, acts as a cheerful, less academic foil.