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The Most Original Manga Ever This is one of the most original manga ever written. Read other reviewers for great plot summaries. If you are reading these reviews your question must be, "Is this something I want to read?" Death Note, unlike a great deal of manga, you have to read. It has wonderful artwork, some of the best I have ever seen. But, the art does not carry the story, the words carry this story. In volume 1, Light finds the Death Note, and at first it seems like killing all criminals is a good idea. But, by volume 2, you begin to see what the power of the Death Note is doing to Light. Volume 3, introduces a new character to the story that complicates the story line, but in a good way. If this series was a movie it would be considered "film noir". It is dark, with many plot twists, microscopic viewing of the line between good and evil, and how that line can be twisted to suit the person doing the twisting. This manga is a thinking manga. After you finish each volume, you will find yourself thinking about it, worrying over some of the plots like a dog with a bone. think, think, think. Enjoy!
Graphic SF Reader Light and L off to uni.
The situation gets more complicated as Light is starting university, and at the opening ceremony he is to speak at, he finds he has a co-speaker, who whispers to him that he is actually L!
The cat and mouse game between them continues, and Light's father having a heart attack and the discovery of a new 'Kira' and Death Note do no make anything more straightforward. All the deviousness in this serious can certainly make your head hurt.
Hard Run The general summary of the `Death Note' manga: Light Yagami, a High Honors student, still maintains his cool in playing the secretive part of Kira, the murderer who kills inmates with heart attacks. This is all accomplished by the Death Note, a notebook belonging to one of the Shinigami death Gods. The Death Note supplies the rules of how to use it, and Ryuk, the Shinigami owner of the notebook that Light now holds in his possession, has to stick around Light until the Notebook is handed to someone else, destroyed, or Light himself is killed. However, notorious super sleuth known as L is hot on Kira's (Light's) heels in sending the murder to his execution.
In Volume Three, Light manages to get Ryuk to locate the cameras and bugs around his room, planted there by L's authority, in exchange for a place to eat his apples in secret. To fool L into thinking that Light is not Kira, Light pretends to do the things he used to do before the Death Note fell into his life. Light knows that if L is watching him, he cannot screw anything up, and knows that if no murders have been reported while he is being watched, L would know that Light is Kira. To fool the man, Light plants a LCD Television in a bag of chips so all L sees when Light goes into his room is a young man studying hard for his entrance exams while having a snack. L dose not see the section of the Death Note taped into the bag of chips along with the LCD, and that each time Light sticks his hand in the bag, he writes one letter of a suspect's name that he watches while eating chips, then withdraws it. This is one of the many things Light has up his sleeve, but despite this, L is still watching him very closely.
L even comes up to Light in person, proclaiming that he is L after Light graduates from school, moving on to a college. Light, never seeing that L would ever come up to him saying he's L, panics for a while, but then regains his cool and decides that if he was to kill L without anyone suspecting it was him, he would have to be L's closest friend...before he was to finish him off. L himself is wondering whether or not Light is really Kira, but after overstress gives Light's father a heart attack and L sees the corny act that Light gave in his father's presence, L is starting to wonder if Light really isn't Kira. Despite this, he wishes Light work in capturing Kira, even though L still suspects Light to be Kira, if only for a small percentage.
However, when things seem to get worse for L, a second Kira is added into the fold. Now it is a race of time to see whether L or Light will get to the second Kira first to get a fair advantage of the situation. L, to find the whereabouts of the first Kira and to see how he kills his victims; and Light, who would use the second L for his own gain in the execution of L. For the second Kira possesses something only Light knows: the Shinigami Eyes, a deal made by the Shinigami who give humans the power to see the person's name and lifespan by looking at them, though this cuts their own lifespan in half.
This is a really suspenseful volume that really gets you reading. Very recommended.
Now the Games Really Begin In the last volume, Light was placed under intense surveillance by L and Light played the innocent, college-bound student, but now it seems that all of the surveillance all of the time is starting to get to Light. Light seems to have a need to punish criminals and mages to punish three rather minor criminals with death, while still under surveillance. Sometime later, Light takes his entrance exams into college and notices a very odd looking guy in his class, he thinks nothing of it until the guy introduces himself as L.
Now that they have met each other face to face, the two begin to pretend to be friends with each other all the while trying to trap the other, L wants evidence that Light is Kira and Light wants to try and keep ahead of the police force and try to eliminate L without drawing too much suspicion. But Light's problems are only beginning as a sudden family emergency distracts him, then a local newstation receives videos allegedly from Kira displaying his "power". However, it soon becomes apparent that this is not the work of Kira, but what appears to be a copycat Kira.
This is another excellent book in the Death Note series. This was a real page turner especially after the revelation of the 2nd Kira. I love the way it shows the battle of wits between Light and L and how it always manages to keep things interesting, the story is going strong and still building steam. This has to be one of the best mangas that I have ever read.
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