Welcome to paradise reader, I’m delighted that this section has caught your
wonderful eyes, may you get an extraordinary immersion in the world of anime and
manga as you read through a few reviews to some interesting pieces of marvelous
work that may shake your brain cells and leave them wanting for more. Enjoy~
Death Note
A clever work done by Tsumugi Ohba (text) and Takeshi Obata (art), it has gained
many fans all over the world yearning for more, unfortunately the manga and
anime have both been confirmed to have finished a long time ago. Nevertheless, that
doesn’t stop the fans to keep their hype up for Death note as the piece is so very well
created that it may be impossible to forget because of its smart cliff hangers and
climaxes and doesn’t fail to keep you curious throughout the series. The story
revolves around a high school boy whose name is Light Yagami, he is seventeen
years old and is the number one genius at his highschool. His father, Soichiro
Yagami is a detective and has asked for help from his son during past investigations
which have let to success to the organization. So Light finds on the ground a book
which he had seen to have fallen from the sky when he was bored which resulted,
curiosity to kick in, he looks at the book only discovering that it is actually a
notebook that says “Death Note” on its cover, the protagonist opens it where his eyes
catch on the rules inside of the notebook that have been written in. He ends up not
taking them seriously and brushes it off with laughter but still wants to try it out.
The main rules inside are the following: “The human whose name is written in a
note will die”, “A note will not take effect unless the writer has the person’s face in
their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same name
will not be affected”, “If the cause of death is not specified, the person will simple
die of a heart attack” and finally “After writing the cause of death, details of the
death should be written next six minutes and forty seconds”. Even though it’s
already interesting enough it goes even deeper, not only was the notebook seen to be
falling from the sky but when the notebook is touched, something freaky happens.
That freaky something is that you being to see creatures that are called Shinigami,
translated to Death Gods in English, each Shinigami owns a death note in which
they write in names of people and those people die. The Shinigami also live in a
Shinigami Realm which is far more different than what a modern world looks like.
Their eyes also see the life span of a person above their head, how creepy is that?! So
now that you have some information about what a Shinigami is, Light encounters,
Ryuk, the owner of the death note that he had found and surprisingly both of them
got along by sharing the same thought “I’m bored”. Both of them were bored and
the story then leads to a shop where Light decides to test the note and kill a criminal.
Soon, he is very entertained and begins to kill criminals in order to create his utopia
and then is targeted by “L” a highly secretive investigational team which is only
known as “L” and is never shown face nor heard voice. As the sotry proceeds L and
Light both try to outsmart each other and Light tries his best to look less suspicious to
L as well as people around him. What happens later on in the story is entirely your
duty, it would be worth the watch! C: