DEATH NOTE 1: 退屈

Death Note ili kako je kod nas prevedeno - Beležnica smrti je još jedna manga koju je Darkwood počeo da objavljuje. Poučen prethodnim iskustvom (Attack on Titan) uplovio sam u prvi deo i izašao iz njega veoma prijatno iznenađen. Ove dve mange su totalno različite tako da ih nikako ne treba upoređivati, apsolutno vredi čitati i jednu i drugu.
Dakle, glavni lik Beležnice smrti je učenik koji igrom slučaja nalazi jednu čudnu beležnicu, koja obećava da će svako ko bude zapisan u nju doživeti svoj apsolutni, neopozivi kraj...
Zanimljivo, zar ne? Ako još na sve to dodate da su u priču umešani i jedan od japanskih bogova smrti, tajni agent kome niko ne zna ni identitet niti njegovo lice, i mnoštvo zločinaca koji su zaslužili svoj kraj onda možete da pretpostavite koliko je ovo zabavno i interesantno.
Jedva čekam nastavak!

Around the Year in 52 Books Challenge:
46.tA crime story.

En este primer volumen nos presentan a Raito (o Light) un chico de 17 años que es el mejor en su clase, está también en el top de los mejores en Japón, pero él no es muy feliz, siente que el mundo está... ¿podrido? Que no hay muchas personas que resalten, que él pueda considerar que sean importantes. Un día, sumergido en sus pensamientos, por la ventana consigue ver una libreta que cae del cielo, como todo ser humano llevado por la curiosidad, la toma y descubre que es una Death Note (Libreta de la Muerte, donde todos los nombres de personas escritos allí, morirán)

Dicha Death Note le pertenecía al shinigami (Dios de la Muerte) Ryuk, quien ''por error'' la dejó caer al mundo humano, por el simple hecho de que estaba aburrido, quería saber qué podría llegar a hacer el humano que la encontrase que lo entretuviera. Al principio Light piensa que la libreta es sólo una broma pesada, sin embargo se la queda, al llegar a su casa se dedica a leer las instrucciones que vienen en las primeras páginas, y tras pensarlo un poco, decide darle una oportunidad y escribir el nombre de un criminal que mostraban en ese momento en las noticias.

Después de comprender que el poder de la Death Note es real, decide convertirse en una especie de Dios de la justicia, planea liberar al mundo del mal, asesinando a todos los criminales del momento. Por supuesto que hay quienes lo apoyan y celebran que los villanos se estén muriendo poco a poco, pero personas como los miembros de la policía o el FBI no están tan de acuerdo, ya que a pesar de la intención, sigue siendo asesinato. Los agentes policiales de todos los países deciden contratar a L, el mejor detective del momento, un personaje extraño al que nunca le han visto la cara, toda comunicación es por medio de una laptop y una voz alterada, pero no hay ningún caso que no pueda resolver, es increíblemente inteligente, y L, encantado de ayudar, se dispone a quitarle la paciencia a Light, retándolo, amenazándolo, lo que consigue que Light (al que llaman Kira por ''Killer'') se anime a cometer más asesinatos y retar a L, ambos creyéndose invensibles. A partir de aquí la historia se convertirá entonces en una batalla entre el bien y el mal, entre L y Kira.

El anime lo amé completamente, y estoy satisfecha tras estar leyendo el manga, ya que puedo ver que el anime le fue muy muy fiel. La historia se lee muy rápido, te mantiene en tensión, te deja con ganas de saber más, de saber cómo acabará todo esto, quién ganará a la final (aunque ya yo sepa, sigue siendo emocionante) y se los recomiendo al 100%. Las ilustraciones (hechas por Takeshi Obata) son oscuras y perturbadoras, son perfectas para la historia, los diálogos son precisos y explican lo que es necesario en ese momento, los personajes están bien construidos, y aunque todavía no se conozcan del todo por ser el primer tomo, conseguimos saber la posición y el pensamiento de cada uno.

Update 14.01.18
I’ve got to remove my rating from here. I wasn’t a fan of this manga but I’ve come to realize that I might just not be a fan of manga as a genre, period. HOWEVER, having just finished the entirety of death note in the form of an anime, I’d like to come to my knees and admit that I was WRONG. like, seriously. I’m so shook.


This was just. weird. Also, no offense, but the graphics were quite ugly. Should I even bother with the next volume? Does it get any better? Idk, man.

4.5

Dear God,

I thank you for creative authors who write the most unique and amazing stories. Example, the author of Deathnote.



UMM YES

i'm on hiatus as of writing this so rtc ofc

n  “There is no heaven or hell. No matter what you do while you’re alive, everybody goes to the same place once you die. Death is Equal.” n

Shall we begin?* Ryuk laughs in background *


Before you read this , a little advice please watch the anime if you dont have time to read the manga. It's only 37 episodes , 20 min each , for free on YouTube with eng subs.

Assuming you have watched it because this review is going to be spoilery mess!

One more thing , if you think that death note is for teens obsessed with idea of being smart and killing people to prove their worth please just get lost! I have spend enough time defending myself !

 It is just outstanding and beyond words!! There is no Anime/Manga like Death Note and I can debate on this anyone.

The story is unique. A notebook falls from the sky, and the human who writes a name in it is capable of killing the individual pictured in his mind (I left out the details that you don't care about). This presents the readers with a highly debatable theme based on morals and justice. Yagami Light, who obtains this power to kill, utilizes it in hopes of creating a utopia in which he is god. Criminals, and only criminals, are to be punished in hopes of a perfect society. Is this however, right? Is it right to kill individuals who have done wrong, and will do wrong again? Can they be reformed? Death Note presents the readers with questions such as these, questions which cannot be easily answers.

This series challenges the viewers morals and for that, it deserves highly.

Moving on characters, unpopular opinions and fan based theories :-

✏L lawliet :- he is my favourite character in the series and it's his intelligence , quirkiness and everything he stands for and not to forget his smile and his love for ice cream .

Bitch I cried when he died! Okay!

n  Kira is childish and he hates losing... I am also childish and I hate to lose. That's how I know.” n

✏Light*i don't give a fuck about anything*Yagami
:- my second fav character , and now here is a thing I love L like 55% and light like 45% and I can't decide whether I am team kira or team anti kira.
He is like my beyond imagination intelligent and smart but eventually he met his end, because it was necessary you see but if in some alternate world Light lives, I honestly don't have problem with it . Period ( don't fight me , I had enough discussion over this with my mum)

n  "This world is rotten, and those who are making it rot deserve to die. Someone has to do it, so why not me?” n

Now my next fav characters will be ryuk , mello, misa, near ( in that order)
I love mello soo much and I have great respect for near and people who say after L's death the series became boring and near wasn't that much intersting , I agree but it was necessary to introduce someone and near never said he is L , he used to call himself L's successor always !!!!

Unpopular opinion :- I like Misa
▪She is smart than people think.
▪ She brushes off torture like no one else.
▪ Her love for Light , knows no command.
▪She adds color and humor to manga( bet if you didn't laughed at her silliness)
▪And not to forget her fashion sense!

Now I am believer of the most famous death note fan theory of Light becoming shinigami at the end( if you too let me know)

In the end acc to me, death note is one of the most iconic manga/anime I have ever read/watched like there is nothing like this and i recommend everyone to watch/read it once in their lifetime.

It will make you question things you never would have brainstormed . Because low-key we all know we would have done the exact same thing when we would have got the death note.

n  "In the end, there is no greater motivation than revenge.”n  
n

Thank you!

This is so good, a page-turner. I never thought I'd like it this much but it's definitely a good one for someone like me who never read much Manga.

4 1/2 stars
When I wrote in my review of Battle Royale that there were only two manga series I really enjoyed, it made me realise just how much in need of a review this was. I am not a manga fan, I know some people love it like crazy, but I've tried starting the most commonly loved - Naruto, InuYasha, Fullmetal Alchemist, etc. - and been left believing that I would never come to appreciate these graphic novels. Death Note was a complete accident which I found one day whilst browsing youtube. I ran into the first episode and watched out of curiosity, then I watched the next and the next until I'd seen the whole thing and knew I had to read the novels too. Both are brilliant. The whole series has only one flaw for me and that's why I deducted half a star from the rating. I will talk about this issue later on.

Just so you know, this is going to be a review of the series as a whole because I'm not going to review every single volume, but I promise to leave out any spoilers.

Here goes: Death Note is brilliant. It's incredibly clever and will challenge your views on justice and power, but the challenges it puts your way are far from simple. I guarantee that you will change your mind multiple times during each volume; you will switch sides constantly; you will one minute think Light Yagami is evil and the next you'll think him a hero. This is a very complex moral story about right and wrong, about how power corrupts, and about what is a just punishment for the wicked.

Light Yagami is an over-achieving student who is fed up with the world around him - day by day he hears the news report listing murders and rapes and other atrocities committed by human scum. When one day a Shinigami (Japanese death god) drops his death note into the human realm, Light Yagami picks it up and holds in his hands the power to kill people just by writing their names and picturing their faces whilst doing so. He starts out with the most noble intentions - rid the earth of the foulest criminals - but there's a price to pay for playing god. As people start to realise that somehow someone is murdering criminals and disregarding Japan's law methods, questions about justice begin to arise - is the killer doing the world a favour, or is he showing a complete lack of respect for human rights?

When more people begin to stand in Light's way, he is forced to write the names of more and more individuals - some criminals, some not. The power granted to him begins to change him, force him deeper into his obsession with this god-like role. All the while, Ohba maintains a brilliant pace and throws up many obstacles and challenges. This story will really appeal to people who want something to think about and are sick of reading novels with the same old pattern.

On top of all this, Death Note has possibly my favourite detective of all time. When the Japanese police force realise that they are unqualified to catch the killer, they appeal to L Lawliet for help. Now, I don't want to say too much about L because I could spoil it, but he's intelligent, lovable, brilliant... I doubt you'll be able to resist loving L Lawliet. And this is one of the things I love most about the series: there's no clear line between good and bad. The novel pits Light and L against one another, they have very different ideas about justice and right and wrong, but the brilliance of it is that you can see it from both points of view, in a way you find yourself on both of their sides.

So why did I knock off half a star? Because I dislike the way women are portrayed in Death Note. At the end of the day, this series was made to mainly appeal to young adult males. There's no heroine and very few main female characters appear throughout the whole thing. Also, the most central female character is Misa Amane and she is beautiful but useless. She is silly and fickle, and she is mostly regarded with contempt from the other characters. This would probably annoy me more if the rest of the story wasn't so excellent, but it is, it really is.

You should read it. Or watch it. Each episode is only 20 minutes long, why not try out the first and see if it's something you could like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CheI5D...