Death Note Short Stories

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Minoru, having grown up learning about the Death Note in school, knows this, and uses it to his advantage.

It was also cool to read the Deathnote pilot, but I’m glad that’s not what the main story ended up being, that death eraser is pretty dumb lol. I wish these had been placed at the end, so that I would have had a more positive outlook going into them. A lot of the answers come easy in this pilot and the stakes and drama are deflated before they even start, so it’s interesting to see that he went from one extreme to the other with the Death Note we know and love, with the story being full of complicated plans, high stakes and drama constantly rising. And the first story here has a splendidly daft explanation for why the notebook, such a rare and terrible thing in the original, should now become available so readily to so many different people (that daftness, of course, always a big part of the series' charm, and yet so easily forgotten when summarising or adapting it – the less said about the Willem Dafoe film, the better).The police know that the original Kira is definitely dead, so when a new Kira pops up and starts killing people over the age of 65, they know that the media's speculation that he's back is wrong.

We understand that not everyone can donate right now, but if you can afford to contribute, we promise it will be put to good use. Obata said, "You never know what will happen in this world" in a statement about the new collection. There have been many popular manga series that have received sequels, from Cardcaptor Sakura to Death Note – but which series deserve to get a sequel next?All in all, this was an okay volume for fans of the original series, but not essential reading unless, for some reason, you want to see more of Near in action (although "Near inaction" is probably more accurate). The majority of the new lore added to the universe comes from the newest addition, the "a-Kira" story. Pointing out that in Bakuman the main character's uncle was a one-hit wonder manga artist who worked on a gag super hero manga, very similar to Gamō and Tottemo!