Death Note

By Chris Beaumont It centers on a high school student named Light who comes into the possession of a notebook labeled "Death Note." The notebook comes complete with instructions on how to use it to kill people. Believing it to be a hoax, he tests it, ...

By Bill Sherman Okay, Medium-Sized Spoiler Alert: Death Note concludes with its anti-hero Light Yagami, a.k.a. "Kira," the arrogant sociopath who's been using a supernatural notebook to cleanse the world of evildoers, defeated and falling apart in front of us. The guy even gets a chapter-long death scen...

By Bill Sherman Reading about the recent brouhaha in China surrounding the horror manga series, Death Note, you might get the impression that it's an ultra-violent and disturbing series. Not so. While the ideas and lead character in Note are clearly meant to push against familiar pulp vigilantism (as re...

By Bill Sherman Reading today at Dirk Deppey's Journalista! that China is attempting to ban horror manga like Ohba & Obata's Death Note (Viz) just as I've started in on Volume Eleven of the thirteen book series inspired me to do a quick check-in on this Shonen Jump Advanced manga series. Purportedly,...