Death Note, Vol. 2 [Paperback]

Tsugumi Ohba (Author), Takeshi Obata (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2005

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects - and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer. With L hot on his heels, will Light lose sight of his noble goal...or his life? Light thinks he's put an end to his troubles with the FBI - by using the Death Note to kill off the FBI agents working the case in Japan! But one of the agents has a fiancee who used to work in the Bureau, and now she's uncovered information that could lead to Light's capture. To make matters worse, L has emerged from the shadows to work directly with the task force headed by Light's father. With people pursuing him from every direction, will Light get caught in the conflux?

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About the Author

Author: Tsugumi Ohba
Born in Tokyo, Tsugumi Ohba is the author of the hit series Death Note. His current series Bakuman is serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump.



Artist: Takeshi Obata
Takeshi Obata was born in 1969 in Niigata, Japan, and is the artist of the wildly popular SHONEN JUMP title Hikaru no Go, which won the 2003 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize: Shinsei New Hope award and the 2000 Shogakukan Manga award. Obata is also the artist of Arabian Majin Bokentan Lamp Lamp, Ayatsuri Sakon, Cyborg Jichan G., and the smash hit manga Death Note. His current series Bakuman is serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump.

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: VIZ Media LLC (November 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1421501694
• ISBN-13: 978-1421501697
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #254,765 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Born in Tokyo, Tsugumi Ohba is the author of the hit series Death Note. His current series Bakuman is serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump.

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars WHO KILLED MY FIANCE?, April 3, 2006

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Sesho "www.sesho.libsyn.com" (Pasadena, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Death Note, Vol. 2 (Paperback)

After Light Yagami finds a way to kill all of the FBI agents that are tracking potential Kira suspects in Japan, including his own private tail, Raye Penber, he's feeling pretty smug. That is, until Raye's fiance, a former FBI agent herself, starts to piece even more parts of the puzzle together and when she runs into Light himself, things get a little hairy and suspenseful! Meanwhile, realizing the severity of the situation, L agrees to reveal his identity to the handful of cops still working the case.

This second volume of Deathnote was far superior to the first installment. While it still had some plot holes, the otherwise fine writing was able to overcome any shortcomings. While Ohba is no Dostoyevsky there are some real moments of suspense and excitement in here. It almost makes you want to skip pages to get to the climax, but not because it's bad. Because it's that GOOD! In a reverse of the handsome Shonen-ai hero, L is a weird looking guy with simian mannerisms while Light is the handsome school boy. The pressure on Light continues to ratchet up, but who will make the first mistake in this battle to the death, L or Light?

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply great, no other way to describe it., February 19, 2006

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Hyacinth Shade (Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Death Note, Vol. 2 (Paperback)

Death Note is a fantastic manga. I would recomend it to anyone who likes pychological suspense, a story with a good plot, all with a scifi edge.

In the first volume of Death Note we are introduced to Light, a bored high school student. He finds the Death Note, a Death God's notebook. When you write a name in it, the person whose name you've written dies. Light decides to use the Death Note to kill criminals in order to create a world free of crime. When Interpol catches on to the fact that dozens of prisoners are dying for no apparent reason, they recruit L, a mysterious sluth who can solve any crime. This is how the dangerous game of cat and mouse begins.

In this volume L is revealed, we get to see his face for the first time. FBI agents are sent to Japan to secretly follow the Japanese agents who are working on the case in order to rule them out as suspects. Light's father happens to be heading the task force. When Light discovers that an FBI agent is tailing him, we get to see just how cunning he truely is.

I don't want to give too much of the story away, so I'll just say this: Death Note is one of the best manga I've ever read. The plot and characters are well developed and intriguing. I highly recommend it!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Hunt For Kira Continues, March 31, 2007

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WayneXtreme "Reading Fiend" (Indianapolis, IN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Death Note, Vol. 2 (Paperback)

Volume 2 of Death Note picks up right where the first volume left off. Light has just discovered that he has been followed by an Agent of the FBI as members of the NPA and their families are under surveillance for suspicious activity to see if anyone might have a connection or in fact be the serial killer known as Kira. L is becoming more and more frustrated especially after all 12 of the FBI agents assigned to surveillance all end up dead. This sparks a massive uprising in the NPA as most of the detectives assigned to the case quit in fear of their own lives.

Out of desperation, L decides to reveal himself to the remaining members of the NPA task force in order to gain their trust and cooperation. To make matters worse, one of the agents killed by Kira has a fiancée who is also a former FBI agent and has information that could eventually lead back to Light. Now, Light must find a way to silence the fiancée in such a way as to keep from arousing any kind of suspicion. As L and the NPA close in on Light, he must now try harder than ever to avoid being captured by the authorities, and as the volume closes, two households are narrowed down by the task force, one of which is Light's house. As bugs and cameras are placed throughout the house, Light must try to act the typical college bound student or else face capture and almost certain death for his crimes.

There is plenty of use of the Death Note in this volume as Light begins killing anyone who has information that could lead to his capture and the suspense really begins to pick up as the Task Force closes in on the identity of the killer Kira. The cat-and-mouse game expands quite a bit more in this volume as Light tries to carry out his "goal". Plenty of suspense in this book, though there is not an additional comic in this volume, it is composed of 9 chapters (but starts at Chapter 8 and continues from there). I can't wait to read volume 3.