Death Note (vol 1) - Tsugumi Ohba

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39 of 39 Ciao users found the following review helpful

Thehonesttruth

Member since 26/05/2004

Reviews written: 730

Take Note 17/06/2007

User recommends the product

Advantages interesting a complex, great character depth, nice illustration
Disadvantages complicated if not used to right-left reading.

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 by Nisio Isin, was released. This review is about volume 1 of Death Note, which contains the first 7 chapters of the story: * Chapter 1: Boredom ... more
14 of 14 Ciao users found the following review helpful

BTlover

Death Note: NOT a collection of suicides. 09/12/2007

User recommends the product

Advantages Amazing depictions of the situations, wonderful storyline
Disadvantages Like the rest of the future series, not for the little ones.

For many years, a long made piece of paper, called a chain letter, supposedly gifts people with different abilities of luck or of death. Nowadays, they are considered as spam, to be ignore completely from all of the world. To be frank, I positively hate chain letters, but I always did wonder as to what if they were real. What if chain letters actually gifted you with such fortune? What if they really gave you the power to kill anyone? That fantasy draws along in people's minds, questioning as to if you could really do good things for all living kinds. And that is where one manga artist by the ... more
5 of 5 Ciao users found the following review helpful

theorah

Death Note, clever compelling, good example of a comic for adults 17/06/2010

User recommends the product

Advantages Detailed artwork, compelling story, very interesting charcters
Disadvantages long story not for everyone, squished pacing/text, sometimes hard to read

Many will know Death Note only from its group of hyper active and crazed teenage followers! But don't let this image created by the comic's popularity deter you, this is no Twilight Saga! Death Note is an incredibly compelling story. Its themes rotating around human nature, morality and life/death are weaved into a very simple premise that creates a narrative both thought provoking and entertaining. The story builds up slowly as we watch our main character, who is both intelligent and a little self righteous, transform from a fairly normal teenager into a corrupted murderer, who becomes ... more
14 of 14 Ciao users found the following review helpful

rob1001

What would you do? 06/05/2008

User recommends the product

Advantages A great horro manga
Disadvantages Not for everyone

From my doo yoo review Here we have the most popular manga series for the older audiance. I can assure you its 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 death note. In its natural form it is ... more
10 of 10 Ciao users found the following review helpful

iToast

Death Note - Superb! 02/01/2008

User recommends the product

Advantages Brilliant plot, characters, and drawings.
Disadvantages None

Introduction: I was recommended this by a friend, and watched the anime even though I'm not into anime or manga. It was amazing. I immediately ordered volumes 1, 2 and 3 of the manga off amazon. I have lent them to my dad, who I doubt even knows what manga is, and he enjoyed them just as much. Plot: Very sinister and entralling. Yagami Light is a school student in his final year at school. Brilliant academically, Light is often bored, and is sick of a world that is full of cruelty and suffering. When he finds the "Death Note" in his school grounds, he is fascinated. "The human whose name is ... more
5 of 5 Ciao users found the following review helpful

the7thwind

a good comic to read 04/08/2008

User recommends the product

Advantages very intelligent comic
Disadvantages not alot of action

I have read this comic - a really good one. The comic is about a boy who wants a world without crime. And one day he 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 surprise how smart the ... more
5 of 5 Ciao users found the following review helpful

myway2421

Death Note (vol 1) - You won't be bored for long. 20/07/2009

User recommends the product

Advantages Great graphics, interesting plot, interesting characters.
Disadvantages Plot can get complicated and it gets hard to understand the underlying reason for things.

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 notebook, a Shinigami named Ryuk. He, like Light, was bored and dropped his Death Note in the world of the humans for some fun. Light found out that ... more
10 of 10 Ciao users found the following review helpful

heart_drops

Soon to be classic : Highly reccomended 12/10/2008

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Advantages Storyline,Characters,Morals,Art,Sutiable for both sexes and if your a bit older.
Disadvantages Not for 12 and unders they might get funny ideas

Fast-paced, 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 14 year old girl and I first started this when I was 13, although it all seems quite fantastical you can see glimpses of humanity for example: ... more
4 of 6 Ciao users found the following review helpful

mq1982

A Classic Manga Series Begins 13/07/2009

User recommends the product

Advantages Deep story, not childish, great graphics
Disadvantages too short only being 12 books long

When a brilliant minded Tokyo 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 are innocent? In this first of a 12 book collect Light learns some of the secrets of the Death Note and a little ... more
2 of 5 Ciao users found the following review helpful

mentalninjaboy

Member since 11/07/2011

Reviews written: 6

Deathnote 11/07/2011

User recommends the product

Advantages excellent story and artwork
Disadvantages shame it had to end

Deathnote, first serialised in the weekly shonen jump magazine, follows the story of light yagami an ace student who discovers a note book dropped by the gods of death (shinigami) after discovering its purpose he sets to use it to rid the world of criminals and make it a better place. However soon the japanese police catch onto the similarities of death and set master detective L on the case to catch Kira. This series follows that epic battle of wits and morals. This series is both beautifully drawn and written with a gripping plot that unlike many manga series will really make you think about ... more