Product 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?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20996 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

About the Author
Artist, Takeshi Obata made his debut in 1989 with CYBORG JI-CHAN G. The runner-up recipient of the 30th Annual Tezuka Award, Obata's major works include CHIKARABITO DENSETSU and MASHIN BOUKENTAN LAMP-LAMP.

Customer Reviews

KIRA's Gone Corporate!
Death Note continues with both Kiras giving up their death notes and losing their memories. The police detectives are disappointed but then a string of mysterious heart attack deaths begin occurring in several Japanese corporations. The police suspect Kira and try to narrow the suspected deaths to one corporation. Will they be able to find Kira and what will they do with the two Kiras that don't seem to be Kiras anymore.

De-L-licious
While perhaps not the most dramamtic or serious arch of Death Note, Vol. 5 is perhaps the most enertaining and one of the more important. As Light loses his memories of being Kira after a deal with Ryuk and Rem he becomes an entirely different person. So much in fact befuddled L asks himself "Can people really disensemble this well?"

Still suspicious of Yagami Light L goes to yet another extreme on the investigation and chains the young man to his wrist. The ensuing stituation is one of tense harmony and frustration that sometimes breaks out into knock-down, drag-out fights between the two. However it is certain the two peers have never been closer both mentally and physically.


However there is now a new Kira even with Light and Misa devoid of their Death Note related memories. As Light comes closer to catching this new killer, will he ever regain his memories of being Kira?


Also, there's a delightful subplot where Matsuda jumps off a high balcony and lives. You should really read it just for that.

Graphic SF Reader
The quality of this series continues.

L still suspects both Light and Misa of being Kiras, and as such is watching them. When other people starts to die he lets them out of captivity.

Light's father is rather stressed about the whole thing, and decides he can't be in the police to deal with it. L has him put his son and girlfriend to a serious test, as the corporate machinations of the current Kira continue.