Death Note (vol 1) - Tsugumi Ohba

Death Note (Desu Nōto) manga series first serialized in the weekly 'Shonen Jump' magazine in December 2003. It ran until May 2006, with 108 chapters in total. Written by Tsugumi Ohba, with illustrations by Takeshi Obata, the series is incredibly popular, and its 108 chapters have been published in their entirety in 12 volumes in Japan. There have also two part live-action films released, an anime series, and last year a novelized version, written ...
...volume 1 of Death Note, which contains the first 7 chapters of the story: * Chapter 1: Boredom * Chapter 2: L * Chapter 3: Family * Chapter 4: Current * Chapter 5: Eyeballs Volume 1 * Chapter 6: Manipulation (Control) * Chapter 7: Target The Plot ********** Death note centres on Raito Yagami (Light) a brilliant but bored high school student, who stumbles across a strange notebook, where he reads the line "He whose name is written in this ...

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...of what could happen. Death Note, you can tell by the name itself, is an incredibly dark concept. Light Yagami is one of the highest-minded Japanese high school students of his generation. However, he is bored with having to tend to these repetitious chores of work that are so easy to do. It goes on, day in and day out, with him studying and studying. No real social life at all. Ryuk is a shinigami, or Death God, who lives in the Death God world. ...
...Death Notes are what let shinigami kill humans who are meant to die or just kill them anytime and anywhere, by writing the soon-to-be-deceased's name in the notebook. However, Ryuk is bored in the living world, tired of all silence and bad apples in their world. So, he drops his Death Note in the Human realm intentionally, hoping for some random human to try it out. Well, it just so happens that it drops right in front of Light Yagami's eyes, who ...

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...poularity is justified. Also expect death note to really take off in a few months time. There is a live action movie that is going to come to britain soon! Anyway lets get down to it. Death note isnt your standard story. First of all the main character - Light yagami - is not a hero. We meet him and find he is very intelligent and popular. Unfortunately for him his world is about to be turned upside down because of a notebook! This of corse is the ...
...used by death gods to kill people. If the name of someone is wrote in it they will die. The writer has the option to expand on the deatils of their death but if not they die of a heart attack. When light finds this with the rules of use inside he naturally thinks its a practical joke. The mang invites you to answer questions of what you would do. Would you try it and see? what if it works? Who would you wirte in it. The story progresses and light ...

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...it. Time and cause of death can be specified, but the default death is from cardiac arrest, ie a heart attack. What Light proceeds to do is to make a start on eliminating cruelty from the world by killing all criminals. After having had the Deathnote for 5 days however, he is visited by Ryuk, the Death God that the book belonged to. Ryuk is not intereted in getting the book back though; he just wants to watch as events develop on the human world. ...
...dying. The police are flummoxed until they call in the help of super detective "L", who communicates only through distorted voice messages, but who is the only one intelligent enough to find the killer, or "KIRA", as Light has become known in the media. '''Analysis & Conclusion''': This is an excellent book for anyone you would like to introduce to manga. It is not stereotypical manga, and has a gripping plot and characters. The drawings are mostly ...

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Death Note, a manga by Tsugumi Ohba, is about an intelligent 17 year old high school boy named Light Yagami. Light, bored with life, seems to live the ordinary life of any high school boy. He has a stay-at-home mother, a little sister, and a cop for a father. His normal life changed when he noticed a black notebook outside when he was in class. On the cover of the notebook was written _Death Note_. He took it home with him and met the owner of the ...
...and dropped his Death Note in the world of the humans for some fun. Light found out that any persons name written in the Death Note dies and he decided to use it as a way to rid the world of evil. _Death Note_ is about Light pursuing his goal, but he has to do it in secret or else he could lose his life. I was engrossed into the manga when I had started reading it. Death Note has an interesting plot that sucks you in and won't let you out till your ...

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...got a book - a death book from a Death. He has an ideal to make his dream comes true. He can use the book of Death to kill all the crime just by seeing their faces and know their name. Of course the police have to find out who killed all the crime. And the fight began between the boy and a detective. This comic doesnt have alot of action, but the reader would palpitate about what is going to happen. It is kind of voilent. but I am sure you're gonna ...

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...Thought provoking, Dramatic and exciting Death Note doesn't disappoint. Basic Plot: Guy gets to play God Simple but effective, Unthoughtunatly after you buy the first one you will want to buy the next one...and the next one.....and the next one The characters are developed nicely and new characters for example Misa are added to keep it interesting. Although it appears to be a bit of a macabre guys book I think anyone could read this. I'm a ...
...I was 13, although it all seems quite fantastical you can see glimpses of humanity for example: Misa's unwavering devotion,Yagami's desperation to believe his son and the entire teams complete faith and loyalty in the protangist who is trying to lead them to their doom. The art is interesting and not generic like some art you see in other books. The characters look more realistic and the details on clothes and backgrounds are beautifully drawn. ...

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...School boy stumbles upon the Death Note, he's thrown into a World of lies, exploration, cat and mouse and death. Light, the main character, finds a Death Note from another world and promptly starts using it to rid the world or criminals. However, Light's actions are soon seen to be as bad, if not worse, from the authorities who enlist there best investigators to track Light down. Will Light use the book to try and stop those after him, even if they ...
...of the secrets of the Death Note and a little about those who will be tracking him. I'll give no more about the plot, other than to say that this is a brilliant read and one of the classic manga/anime collections out there. My only gripe is that it's just 12 books long. I promise you that you'll read these at an alarming pace! But becaeful to watch for double meanings and hidden information in the text and pictures. Tsugumi Ohba is known for great ...

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...caught or will he escape? Will he himself be punished for the kills caused by the Death Note or will the power remain in his hands? Well, read the manga and see for yourself how everything comes into Light...and drops down dead with a line in the DEATH NOTE. ...

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This comic is one of the work of Takeshi Obata, who is one of my favorite artists I like it because the results are typical of his work, if you are a fan of Obata then when you saw the results of his work, you must realized without having to ask who the author is. This story starts from a high school student who is tired with the many crimes that happen, one day he found a book that could kill anyone just by writing the person's name in the book. ...
...without crime, where he was the god. but the plan did not go as planned as the world's best detectives trying to catch him. Since then there was race of strategy, and do not expect that you will easily understand the story, but it is complexity that is the main attraction of this book. I think overall this book is very entertaining, especially for those who loved the thriller genre. Obata's drawings are also very good, so not only interesting story ...

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...that name will obviously be death in just few minutes. Yagami found that with that DeathNote he might be can re-arrange the world to become good as it have to be by kill all the bad guy in the world. And then Yagami take this as his responsibility and do the Kill-With-DeathNote everyday. That’s the main plot of this manga. But the story grow bigger and bigger as people starting to know that there’s someone behind the massive killing that have been ...
...massive killing of bad person with name Kira. Kira’s became popular in society. But popular isn’t that easy. Police start to make investigation to find Kira. And the story grows bigger when FBI takes part too in this investigation. And even the best detective in the world, named L, also takes part in this. The story of this manga is very simple in the beginning but grows more complex and complicated latter, but this is the things that make this manga ...

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death note one of the most best anime I've watch. The main character here name kira. The stroy is about a guy with justice want to kill all the abd person by using a notebook.. this notebook has a special power once you write and think of the person name n face he/she will die in heart attack. My friend recommend me this anime I was impress and got excited to finish this anime. I remember that I almost can't sleep because of the excitement of every ...

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You know, one of the best manga comics is Death Note. It's one of the most clever comics I've read. Mr. Tsugumi Ohba is genius ^^ I've all series in this comics !!! ...

manul02 22.04.2009
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i only read half of this as i was on a train and it was my mates ! :o( but it seemed enjoyable, i loved the drawings. it's worth the pounds ! :o) ...

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