![]() Murder is murder no matter what but how do you catch a culprit who kills quickly, efficiently and without even making an appearance? As Light continues he quest to rid the world of criminals, the media quickly picks up on his deeds and calls him Kira. Of course, the local Japanese authorities as well as law enforcement officials all over the world don’t see the sudden and mysterious deaths of criminals as a blessing. ![]() The evildoer will die by the hand of Light who passes judgment on them from an unknown location and without revealing his identity. As executioner of the wicked, Light feels like he can turn the world into a crime-free utopia. Both Ryuk and Light are no longer bored and so begins the strange relationship between Death God and human who sees this as an opportunity to change the world for the better. Just as he’s convinced that the Death Note works, Ryuk pays Light a visit and discovers that Light was the right person to possess the deadly supernatural notebook. Light begins testing the Death Note to make sure it wasn’t some kind of weird fluke or coincidence and surely enough the people whose names he wrote in the pages of the notebook suddenly die of heart attacks. It’s a shock to Light that the criminal actually DOES drop dead of a heart attack just like the Death Note promised it would. Dismissing it, at first, Light decides to write the name of a criminal who, at that moment, was holding eight hostages in a nursery school. What catches his eye is the fact that the Death Note claims that the name of the person you write in the blank pages of said notebook would ultimately die within 40 seconds. Out of mere curiosity, Light picks it up only to discover that the notebook contains blank pages and a page filled with guidelines on how to use it. As fate would have it, though, Light sees it fall from the sky and land on his school’s quad. To quell his boredom, he drops his most deadly possession – a simple notebook he dubs the Death Note – in the realm of the humans. Deep in the depths of the Shinigami realm is Ryuk who finds his existence rather boring as well. He’s a straight-A student who breezes through class without much effort and is thusly bored out of his mind because of it. We meet 17-year old High school student Light Yagami who is the picture of scholastic excellence. The series’ strength has always been the battle of wits between the main protagonist and the genius that is L and in the first volume the battle between the two unfolds rather quickly. Even if you already own a copy of the first edition (like me), this Collector’s Edition is definitely what you’ll want to have displayed in your bookcase. Featuring a sturdy hardcover of the first edition cover with a dust jacket featuring the image of the Shinigami (or Death God) named Ryuk. In short, it’s worthy of VIZ Media’s hardcover Collector’s Edition treatment of the first volume. It also inspired a great anime and two live-action feature films. The collaboration between manga author Tsugumi Ohba and talented artist Takeshi Obata was like pairing Lennon with McCartney and the result was a 12-volume series that captivated readers in a global scale. What if you were suddenly given a chance to change the world for the better but the only way of doing it isn’t exactly morally correct or legal? This is a question that comes up in the first volume of Death Note and thus sparking a smart and original cat-and-mouse game between a bored genius, an equally bored Death God and a mysterious figure known throughout law enforcement officials around the world as a brilliant detective. Righteous judgment or mass murder … it’s Kira versus L. Publisher: VIZ Media (SJ Advanced Collector’s Edition)
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