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Death Note  
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Description
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. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer. With L hot on his heels, will Light lose sight of his noble goal… or his life?

Type
Manga

Related Series
Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases (Novel) (Spin-Off)

Associated Names
Тетрадь смерти
デスノート
死亡笔记
สมุดโน๊ตกระชากวิณญาณ
데스 노트
Cuaderno de la Muerte
Death Note - A halállista
Desu Nôto
Quyển Sổ Thiên Mệnh

Groups Scanlating
Aku Tenshi
Binktopia
Ice-Master Scanlations
KEFI
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Latest Release(s)
v.13 c.2a by mD-xD (1784d ago)
c.Special by Binktopia (1931d ago)
v.13 c.1b by mD-xD (1954d ago)
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Status in Country of Origin
12 Volumes + 1 Extra Volume (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?
Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter
Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1
Ends at Vol 12, Chap 108

User Reviews
Death Note by Rune71
Death Note by torrentchan
Death Note by Rashid

Forum
17 topics, 563 posts
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User Rating
Average: 8.7 / 10.0 (2559 votes)
Bayesian Average: 8.68 / 10.0
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Last Updated
May 14th 2013, 5:48pm PST

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Genre
Drama  Horror  Mystery  Psychological  Shounen  Supernatural  Tragedy 
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Recommendations

Author(s)
OHBA Tsugumi

Artist(s)
OBATA Takeshi

Year
2004

Original Publisher
Shueisha

Serialized In (magazine)
Weekly Shonen Jump (Shueisha)

Licensed (in English)
Yes

English Publisher
JManga (Defunct)
Viz (13 Volumes & 6 Omnibuses - Complete)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)
Weekly Pos #483 increased(+60)
Monthly Pos #598 decreased(-393)
3 Month Pos #187 decreased(-34)
6 Month Pos #133 decreased(-52)

List Stats
On 1257 reading lists
On 553 wish lists
On 5715 completed lists
On 323 unfinished lists
On 323 custom lists

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Forum Posts
Light or L:who do u like better? 496 days, 8 hours, 26 minutes ago
Favorite Death Note character 551 days, 13 hours, 56 minutes ago
if you had a death note 551 days, 14 hours, 0 minutes ago
AMERICAN REMAKE OF DEATH NOTE IN THE WORKS 551 days, 14 hours, 7 minutes ago
Site Poll - Chat Box 92 - What to do with a Death Note? 665 days, 8 hours, 9 minutes ago

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 Excellent   
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by Anonymous
June 10th, 2006, 4:19pm
I've been following this manga, and it seems to have ended few weeks ago, too bad, I really liked this manga. I give an excellent 10 for plot/mystery/dark evil genius type of manga.
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 ｉｍ　ｊａｐａｎｅｓｅ   
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by Anonymous
May 25th, 2006, 2:49am
ｊｕｍｐ　ｉｓ　ｖｅｒｙ　ｐｏｐｕｌｌｅｒ　ｗｅｅｋｌｙ　ｍａｎｇａ　ｉｎ　ｊａｐａｎ．ｅｓｐｅｃｉａｌｙ　ｄｅａｔｈ　ｎｏｔｅ　ｉｓ　ｐｏｐｕｌｌｅｒ　ｍｕｃｈ　ｂｅｔｔｅｒ　ｔｈａｎ　ａｎｏｔｈｅｒ　ｓｔｏｒｙ．Unfortunately, 　ｉｔ　ｗａｓ　ｅｎｄ．　ｌａｓｔ　ｗｅｅｋ．ｄｏ　ｙｏｕ　ｋｎｏｗ　ｔｈｉｓ　ｎｅｗｓ？？
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 Excellent manga... tadash   
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by barbapapa
March 18th, 2006, 11:00pm
Edit by mod: SPOILER WARNING


The first 7 volumes are a prime example of some of the best suspense you can find in manga. The battle between L and Light is really the ultimate cat & mouse game where the roles constantly switch. And Obata's artwork is really impressive in this. The only thing I have to say is that, ever since the second arc started; the entire drive was gone. Near & Mello just dont hold a candle to the L we all loved. Characters that feel rushed more than anything else. Like the pressure of writing an alternative series in Shonen Jump got to Tsugumi Ohba and now together with Death Note seems to be burned out. Too bad really, this could have been an all-time favourite. Dont get me wrong its still a great manga; but dont expect it to keep an obscenely high level like it showed in volumes 1-7.
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 omfg   
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by piggay
March 14th, 2006, 9:58am
this was so fcking great i love the boobies and the drugs and the Tal Museri
jaja gut
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 I love it!   
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by Anonymous
March 9th, 2006, 5:45pm
This is a greaat series.
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 asdf   
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by Anonymous
February 2nd, 2006, 1:42am
[edit by mod, SPOILER WARNING. please do not spoil if you can help it!

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it was good until L dissapeared then i stopped reading
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 Raito = Moriarty / L = Sherlock   
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by SenseiAgot
January 26th, 2006, 9:51am
Deathnote is an unique aproach to the Shounen genre, is so deep! Seriously i would call it Seinen not Shounen, yet is published in Shonen Jump (i can't believe that yet) and lack graffic violence or sex to be a Seinen. The plot is really well constructed, and is never racking. In one chapter the table can turn about 10 times. The first page Raito is dominating the world, the other one L makes a serious comeback and leave our main character at the border os abyss.

This brain war between these two makes me remember Dr Moriarty vs Sherlock Holmes (hey L is from England!), yet the main character is the "bad guy". And this is another great point in Deathnote, we are accostumed to see in all mangas that the Good always overcome the Evil, and the Main Character is the ultimate badass....Ejem... The Main Character in Deathnote is to say the least a twisted good guy, a megalomanic building his own world. But everybody wants Raito to win it all.

Deathnote is on the same level than classics such as Rurouni Kenshin, Berserk, Monster, etc, etc. Is a new type of suspense, an original concept. I miss L a lot, M and N doesn't have the level to beat Kira unless they join forces, even so they put pressure on Raito, and we all know that he is the checkmate king. The more pressure is put on his shoulders the more his genious will come up with the ultimate move.

Rena...you are CRAZY. M better than L? Hell no! It's just that the kid start the game with a lot more information than L. In Deathnote information is all, and the notebook is the ultimate double edged weapon, like a friend said, this book is only less powerfull than the Infinite Gauntlet.

baK4rang3rX8 men, you got some serious issues, if you find thisn boring then you haven't reach the required good taste to love this manga, maybe you would like more Bleach (great action character driven, yet is going totally down in the plot deparment) Of Course Deathnote will get a little bit repetitive form time to time, like someone said, this is a Mouse and Cat fight (who is the mouse and who is the cat?)
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 Death Note   
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by Ji
January 15th, 2006, 7:20pm
My Type of Manga and it is Very Very well done.
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 moo   
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by baK4rang3rX8
January 3rd, 2006, 8:50am
as i see it the first like 15-20 chapters was almost great ...
then it just get repetative and a bit boring
and a bit later on in the manga it fails
atleast for me...but i still read it hoping(not gonna happen) for it 2 b g00d again
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 +DeathNote+   
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by Anonymous
November 15th, 2005, 12:02am
Twistedly Genius :)
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