Death Note, Volume 1 - Tsugumi Ohba

8.3	Listal rating

Manufacturer : VIZ Media LLC
Release date : 10 October 2005
ISBN-10 : 1421501686 | ISBN-13 : 9781421501680

Manga (9), Viz (3), Shounen (2), Psychological (1), Graphic Novel (1), Online (1), Shonen Jump (1), ShÅnen (1), Detective Fiction (1), Death Note (1), Drama (1), Mystery (1), Supernatural (1)

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Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects - and bored out of his mind! But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, and notebook dropped by a rougue 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. But when criminals begi ... (more)

Written by

Tsugumi Ohba

Takeshi Obata

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chibiyusa

This from Weekly Jump?

Posted : 3 years, 5 months ago at Jun 23 14:04

The amount of seemingly upright adults reading this series is absolutely shocking seeing as it originally ran in Shonen Jump. You know, that magazine that runs Naruto. But I think it's because it ran in such a magazine that it was able to excel so well. I believe Ohba mentioned somewhere in the 13th volume on how because it was run in Shonen Jump they were able to focus more on the entertaining aspects as opposed to the heavy dialouge which the older crowd seems to enjoy. Now while Death Note is heavily laden with dialougue one can only imagine how much more impossible it would have been to read had it been aimed at older audiences. And I gotta say, it's been a heck of a ride. If you haven't already been informed Death Note chronicles the story of Light Yagami, who out of boredom fi...Read more

Rating : 9/10

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