Death Note -- a manga (Japanese Illustrated story)
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2015 5:21 pm
A "Death Note" looks like a black notebook usually held by one of the Japanese Gods of Death. The Gods of Death in Japanese lore are called SHINIGAMI. The Shinigami may, if bored, drop their notebook where a human can find it. When the human owner writes a name in the Death Note while picturing a person's face, the person dies.
Ryuk, the Shinigami, is bored and so he drops his book.
Light Yagami, a bored high school senior finds the a Death Note and thus begins an epic battle between Light and the police over who will hold dominance. Light becomes "Kira" the person who all may petition and find redress to crimes and a police person named "L" who is Light Yagami's equal in sheer brilliance.
The two minds plot against each other with "L" meting out death to criminals, rapists, robbers, and generally bad guys, and "L" who wishes to restore the balance of the world and stop the killings. As they do, the Cult of Kira as a God who metes out life and death, grows.
12 volumes, 6 books -- distinctive black covers.
Like the Death Note itself.
Ryuk, the Shinigami, is bored and so he drops his book.
Light Yagami, a bored high school senior finds the a Death Note and thus begins an epic battle between Light and the police over who will hold dominance. Light becomes "Kira" the person who all may petition and find redress to crimes and a police person named "L" who is Light Yagami's equal in sheer brilliance.
The two minds plot against each other with "L" meting out death to criminals, rapists, robbers, and generally bad guys, and "L" who wishes to restore the balance of the world and stop the killings. As they do, the Cult of Kira as a God who metes out life and death, grows.
12 volumes, 6 books -- distinctive black covers.
Like the Death Note itself.