Waterstones Death Note: How to Read
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Price: £10.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: The Ultimate Death Note Encyclopedia! Here, in one authoritative volume: everything you need to know about Death Note, the best-selling manga series. Featuring complete character biographies, detailed story-line summaries, production notes, and behind-the-scenes commentaries. Death Note 13: How to Readalso includes exclusive interviews with creators Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata and a bonus manga chapter of never-before-translated material. Unless you own your very own death note, it doesn't get any better than this!. Waterstones Death Note: How to Read - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781421518886
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ISBN: 9781421518886
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Author: Rowan Fortune
Rating: 5
Review: Like many of these encyclopaedias for fictions this contains a lot of completely uninteresting information. However, there are a few really fascinating bits of info - that Ohba regards both L and Light as evil, that neither of the creators liked Near, that Ohba is inspired by the works of artist Jean Jansem. Most interestingly is the fact that both Ohba and Obata emphasised the philosophical ambiguity and the absence of any pretentious, didactic message; for me this is what makes Death Note so fascinating and so open to meandering and entertaining speculation. Death Note 13 also increased my respect for the artwork and the complexity and skill invested into this side of the manga. The best feature of this bonus instalment was the inclusion of the Death Note pilot. This gives the reader real insight into how the idea developed from an interesting semi-philosophical (meta-ethical) thought experiment into one of the greatest fiction thrillers ever conceived. The flaws in the pilot have been aptly removed from the series, leaving only what makes Death Note the classic manga that it is.
Author: Cass
Rating: 4
Review: For a big death note fan it's a cool thing to have to end your collection with however there's little info there that's wildly new or amazing, L's real name crops up in films, and online, so it's hardly a reveal, and then there are profiles of other shinigami who weren't really in the story which is interesting. Apart from that, the rest is just character profiles, and summaries of the story but I enjoyed it. The chapter of what could have been death note is fun reading, I want more, and creator interviews are interesting.
