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Reads R to L (Japanese Style) for audiences T+. Contains Volumes 3 and 4 of Death Note!
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. Will Light's noble goal succeed, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?
About the Author
Born in Tokyo, Tsugumi Ohba is the author of the hit series Death Note. His current series Bakuman is serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump.
Takeshi Obata was born in 1969 in Niigata, Japan, and is the artist of the widly 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, Ayasturi 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
I love this series!,
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This review is from: Death Note Black Edition, Vol. 2 (Paperback)
Reason for Reading: Next in the series.The Black Edition of Death Note are omnibus reprints which collect two volumes together. Black Edition, Vol. 2 here contains Volumes 3 and 4 of the original series. From the outside the books are completely black including the fore edges. What a ride this manga is! What I love about it so much is the detection part of the plot. The way that "L", the mastermind detective is matching wits with the serial killer Kira, who of course only wants to make the world a better place by ridding it of the criminal element. Light Yagami is under suspicion of being Kira and has been asked to join the task force both because he is the chief's son, is so intelligent and because he is under suspicion. This is just what Light wants as he feels he can manipulate the case better from the inside. These two minds going up against each other is so much fun. One will think he's outwitted the other, only to turn around and be one-upped. The main plot of these volumes includes the introduction of a second human receiving a Death Note as a higher up Shinigami wants to see why the other is playing this game with the human. The new human is a follower/fan of Kira and enters into the case by broadcasting videos stating that he is Kira, in order to meet the real Kira. This really throws a wrench in the investigation and nearly gets Light caught. We learn a lot more information about how the Death Notes work. In fact, also about the Shinigami themselves. Ryuk's character wasn't explored much in these volumes, so far we pretty much know where he stands. Light and "L"'s characters were focused on the most (outside the new characters) and while we know Light is the bad guy (that isn't a spoiler) and his character is losing more and more human traits, feelings, becoming more evil; we now question whether "L" can really be trusted to solve this case. Has he finally met his match in Kira? I so cannot wait for the next volume to come out and the great thing about this series is that it is a reprint. It has already been published! So no waiting! The publishers have a regularly scheduled release date for each volume in the series. Volume 3 (containing Vol.'s 5&6 will be out in May '11)
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This review is from: Death Note Black Edition, Vol. 2 (Paperback)
Yup... i was planing to get one in Barnes and Noble weeks ago, but they are always very dirty (b/c people read them there) Now, ---not only is this one brand new and "soft"(referring to the cover), its also 5$ cheaper :DA++, 5Stars, thanks!
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Death Note Continues To Deliver!,
By Joseph Born "Joe" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Death Note Black Edition, Vol. 2 (Paperback)
For those of you who didn't read Death Note Black Edition, Vol. 1 , Death Note follows the life of Light Yagami after he finds a "Death Note", which enables him to kill anyone, anytime, anywhere, anyhow... under two conditions. First he must know their name (Their real one) and know what their face looks like. And a Shinigami (Japanese God of Death) named Ryuk, who dropped the Death Note into the "Earth world" follows Light everywhere since it's his Death Note.In the previous volume, Light decided to use the Death Note to kill of the worlds top criminals along and many of Japan's criminals, even the minor ones. He does this by giving them a heart attack. This earns him the attention of L, a super slueth detective who can solve any case. L puts together a Task Force, which includes Light's father, coincidentally a top cop in the NPA. This task force has pledged to bring "Kira" to justice. In this volume, L and Light come face to face! Although neither one knows who the other one really is at first. This leads to an astonishingly fun war of words between the two. Of course this war is interrupted as L and Light discover that someone they both know has suffered a heart attack... Then a Kira holds a news station hostage by the most unconventional means unless they air threatening tapes about "Kira's" plans for the world. It turns out this is the work of a second Kira named Misa, who has the Shinigami eyes. Light joins the task force to help track down this apparent second Kira which leads to Light and L playing a game of Cat and Mouse with the killer. The art in this book is great. The artist really knows his facial expressions. The dialogue is absolute genius. The best thing about this is that it's oversized. Overall, I cannot recommend this volume enough! That is if you've read the first one. 1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
I love this series!,
By Nicola Manning - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Death Note Black Edition, Vol. 2 (Paperback)
Reason for Reading: Next in the series.The Black Edition of Death Note are omnibus reprints which collect two volumes together. Black Edition, Vol. 2 here contains Volumes 3 and 4 of the original series. From the outside the books are completely black including the fore edges. What a ride this manga is! What I love about it so much is the detection part of the plot. The way that "L", the mastermind detective is matching wits with the serial killer Kira, who of course only wants to make the world a better place by ridding it of the criminal element. Light Yagami is under suspicion of being Kira and has been asked to join the task force both because he is the chief's son, is so intelligent and because he is under suspicion. This is just what Light wants as he feels he can manipulate the case better from the inside. These two minds going up against each other is so much fun. One will think he's outwitted the other, only to turn around and be one-upped. The main plot of these volumes includes the introduction of a second human receiving a Death Note as a higher up Shinigami wants to see why the other is playing this game with the human. The new human is a follower/fan of Kira and enters into the case by broadcasting videos stating that he is Kira, in order to meet the real Kira. This really throws a wrench in the investigation and nearly gets Light caught. We learn a lot more information about how the Death Notes work. In fact, also about the Shinigami themselves. Ryuk's character wasn't explored much in these volumes, so far we pretty much know where he stands. Light and "L"'s characters were focused on the most (outside the new characters) and while we know Light is the bad guy (that isn't a spoiler) and his character is losing more and more human traits, feelings, becoming more evil; we now question whether "L" can really be trusted to solve this case. Has he finally met his match in Kira? I so cannot wait for the next volume to come out and the great thing about this series is that it is a reprint. It has already been published! So no waiting! The publishers have a regularly scheduled release date for each volume in the series. Volume 3 (containing Vol.'s 5&6 will be out in May '11) |
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