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?
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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.
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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Can't WAIT for the next volume!!!,
By V. Russell (Plainsboro, NJ) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Death Note, Vol. 10 (Paperback)
I am so hooked on this series! While it veers from my usual (I read mostly Yaoi and Shojo manga) the cover of the first volume made me curious. I bought the first volume not knowing what to expect and was instantly hooked. The next day, I went out and purchased the next 9 volumes and read them all in one night.
This is not your typical story. Imagine this brilliant high school student with a bright future who gains the power to kill anyone as long as he has seen their face and knows their name. If you think about what that really means, you'll realize the complexity of this story. So I am reading volume after volume of this arrogant kid who considers himself a God (no joke; he really does) and he is by no stretch of the imagination the "Good" guy...but...I can't help wanting him to be victorious. That is the great thing about this story; it is more about winning and losing than good vs. evil. I can't get into all of the things that I like about this series without spoiling it for those of you who haven't read it. But if you want a truly unique story about a battle of wills between (not good guys and bad guys) but super intelligent young men; this is the story for you. There are only two more volumes in this series. Go out and pick up the first couple (at 7.99 each USD, plus whatever discounts you may have, you can't lose!) and you'll be glad that you did. Choose a side and we'll see who wins! ps, There are two live action movies based on this series (but I have read that they deviate some from the manga). The anime started airing in Japan in October of last year. VIZ has already licensed it (woo-hoo!!).
5.0 out of 5 stars
Kira On the Verge,
By Lynn Ellingwood "The ESOL Teacher" (Webster, NY United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Death Note, Vol. 10 (Paperback)
Kira is now involving the whole world in his plot and more countries seem to be enveloped in his grasp. The US has gone over to supporting Kira and Japan is falling. Light works hard to redirect attention to him while Near and Mellow try to close in on him. So exciting!
4.0 out of 5 stars
Setting up the final battle.,
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This review is from: Death Note, Vol. 10 (Paperback)
Tsugumi Ohba, Death Note: Deletion (ViZ, 2003)
Death Note has become more like a chess game than ever before these days, with everyone trying to figure out who's on whose side, who can and can't be trusted, and who's about to act against whom. Because of this, the series is getting somewhat more internalized; this volume is probably the talkiest of the bunch so far, with at least a third of the book being devoted to characters having conversations with themselves. It's pretty obvious that this volume is setup (and with only two remaining, it's setup for the big climax), but it's good setup. *** ½
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