Death Note Box Set: Vols 1-13: Volumes 1-13 with Premium (Death Note Complete Box Set)

Product Information

My rating is obviously for the whole series combined. The start and the ending were even better! It dragged on in some parts around the middle, for this I remove one star. Tsugumi Ōba (Profile in Japanese: 大場 つぐみ), born in Tokyo, Japan, is a writer best known for the manga Death Note. His/her real identity is a closely guarded secret. As stated by the profile placed at the beginning of each Death Note manga, Ōba collects teacups and develops manga plots while holding his knees on a chair, similar to a habit of L, one of the main characters of the series. I liked the first part much more. It did not require much suspension of disbelief. I'm not talking about Death Note itself and the Shinigami. Things like a certain Light's father managing to get to Sakura TV from the hospital in minutes. Really, everything is so close? And he managed to get the police vehicle in the meantime. Nah, unbelievable. But it was alright. Mostly the battle of wits. And what a battle! Let’s be honest, every one of us has at least considered the line of thinking above at least once or multiple times; I still do sometimes. That’s part of being human, especially when everything you hear or see around the world is filled with injustice. The main character, Light/Kira Yagami, is a genius that accidentally obtains a Death Note, and he wants to use it for one single purpose: to make the world a better place by killing all scums, rapist, criminals that exist in the world; untouched or touched by laws, there’s no exception. This makes him an ultimate vigilante that practically untraceable by anybody because of its killing method, almost as if he’s truly a god. The plot, of course, became more complicated and engaging once his main rival, L, came into play. Not only Kira and L are both one of the finest characters I’ve ever read in manga, but their rivalry also to this day stands as one of the most highly praised rivalry in the world of manga/anime for many great reasons. To state a few, their characterizations and their deadly game of cat and mouse were so well portrayed that you can’t help but root for both of them.

Death Note Complete Box Set by Tsugumi Ohba - Waterstones

I enjoyed this book so much from the twists, to the characters, to the artwork. Honestly very enjoyable and has rekindled my love for reading. As this is my first-ever manga, I can't draw upon experience in this genre to provide a meaningful benchmark. However, manga or novel, one reads for the storytelling and its characters. In both aspects, Death Note excels beyond any shadow of a doubt. Kira, the protagonist in Death Note has to be one of the most complex grimdark characters I've encountered and I find myself being torn between cheering him on towards his ultimate goal and being disgusted with his methods to achieve it. My other complaint is that it felt like the story repeated itself after the halfway point. Except with a different outcome. Because of that, I found the second half of this manga to be a bit boring and predictable.The complete collection of manga about a boy who holds Japan under his control after finding a book that lets him kill anyone he wants to. The Death Note series is a contemporary, shounen manga series. In conclusion, Death Note is one of the best manga series I’ve ever read. Give it a few more years and it will become a classic in the genre; in my opinion, it already did. It’s one of the most popular manga/anime series of all time, it’s and one that I will always recommend. Once again, dive into this series either through reading the manga or watching the anime; those are the only options you should consider, and then you can thank me later for one of the best escapism experiences once you get to it. Also, I would like to give my special thanks to my dear friend Haifa for getting me this fantastic edition as my early X-mas present. The entire Death Note manga story arc is now available in a box set for the first time! This is a perfect gift for either yourself or anyone not yet exposed to the amazing intrigue of this Obha/Obata masterpiece. Although it takes up a lot more time to read than you might expect of a manga, this is a masterpiece, that will keep you on the edge of your seat, with risk of falling off a few times! Light is brilliant, and one needs to admire how he manages to get himself out of troubles, like in chapter 14. What a brilliant resolution but also what a collateral damage.

Death Note Manga | Waterstones

I'm not going to be able to post the notes I took here because there's just too much stuff I wrote. So what I'm going to do is I marked the halfway point in my notes. So I'll make a Part 1 and 2 tumblr post and link them in a week or two. After The Event I had to cut off my critical thinking much more. Also, it was a bit more boring because Light barely moved, always sitting near monitors. We had some great characters but at times they were underutilized. Like Melo. He disappeared for periods of time, then appeared just on time without seeing what he did in the meantime. Misa Misa was left only for a comic relief. Matsuda suffered the same fate for most of the time. Lai vai kā, kad es biju tīneidžers, man likās, ka nekas labāks par Death Note izgudrots nav. Man drīz būs 30 un es vēl joprojām domāju tāpat. Vienīgais, pie kā piekasīties, ir tas, ka var redzēt, ka sākotnēji bija domāts, ka viss beigsies daudz ātrāk (pusē, ja esam precīzi), bet otra puse attaisno savu eksistenci ar iespaidīgām beigām. However, you can't help but be drawn into the intellectual battle present between Light & L. It's magnificent! The way this is illustrated to show the characters' thoughts as well as their conversations is genius. Oh, and the artwork 😍 Special thanks to my Patrons on Patreon for giving me extra support towards my passion for reading and reviewing!The set is good. It includes all volume (12 Volumes)+ One extra book called "How to read DN" It also includes a Death note small book. The only downside to this book for me was about two thirds of the way through the story. SPOILERS: L dies and the story seems to die with it. And I get that it would be like that, but it seemed dragged out. I think if I was reading these books separately, I would have struggled to push through that particular book and carry on with the series. Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects - and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Personally, I think this would have been all the more interesting If we had had a female as one of the main characters. Or, if we would have had one of the female characters doublecross Light. That would also have been interesting. Because women are just as capable of being intelligent, if not more so...