Raye Penber

Raye Penber (レイ・ペンバー Rei Penbā) is an investigator from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, sent to Japan with twelve other agents to aid in tracking down Kira early in the story. He is assigned to investigate the Yagami family for any suspicious behavior. He has a fiancée, Misora, whom he tells not involve herself in the investigation for her own safety. Light manages to track him down and use him to kill the other members of his team. Light kills Raye soon after. He is voiced by Hideo Ishikawa in the Japanese anime and Michael Adamthwaite in the English dub. In the films, he known as Raye Iwamatsu (レイ・イワマツ Rei Iwamatsu) and he is played by Shigeki Hosokawa. In the films is a counter-terrorism agent headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Ohba said that at the beginning he thought of the idea of the FBI going after Light, and so he created Raye to fill the plot point.

Obata said that as Raye was of mixed American and Japanese descent, Obata "struggled over his design" and tried to make Penber look more non-Japanese. Obata said that he wishes that he could have "drawn him a bit better."