Hey howdy hey! I just finished Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases, so I think this makes me a Death Note Renaissance (wo)Man. I saw the anime, saw the three live action films, read the manga, read the manga guide How to Read, read the novelization of L Change the World, and watched Visions of a God and L’s Successors. The only thing I didn’t do was watch the DVDs in both sub and dub. I’m too tired now to go back and do that. This has all been within a relatively short period of time, you know, a few to several months, but not a whole year. I’m not sure I can go through Light...

Death Note (デスノート, Desu Nōto?) is a Japanese manga series created by writer Tsugumi Ohba and manga artist Takeshi Obata. The series centers on Light Yagami, a university student who discovers a supernatural notebook, the "Death Note", dropped on Earth by a shinigami (death god) named Ryuk. The Death Note grants its user the ability to kill anyone whose face they have seen, by writing the victim's name in the notebook. The story follows Light's attempt to create and rule a world cleansed of evil using the notebook, and the complex conflict between him, his opponents and a mysterious...