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Death Note, Vol. 5
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List Price: $7.99
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Manufacturer: VIZ Media LLC
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5952
EAN: 9781421506265
ISBN: 1421506262
Label: VIZ Media LLC
Manufacturer: VIZ Media LLC
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2006-05-02
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
Studio: VIZ Media LLC
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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?
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Summary: KIRA's Gone Corporate!
Comment: 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.
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Summary: De-L-licious
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Graphic SF Reader
Comment: 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.
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Summary: The Most Interesting Book in the Series
Comment: As the subtitle (vaguely) suggests, Death Note 5: Whiteout is about Light/Kira losing his memories of using the Death Note and joining the investigation team to find the killer who has taken his place.
What's weird is that Light is almost a completely different person once his memories of the Death Note are erased. The once cold, calculating Light is now as honorable and friendly as he merely pretended to be in the previous volumes.
At one point, he is asked to manipulate someone for useful information in uncovering the identity of the new Kira. Although he'd manipulated that same person in the previous book, Light refuses by saying it would go against his personal code. That pretty much implies that the Death Note has almost allegorical powers of corruption (kind of like the One Ring from "The Lord of the Rings"). Of course, I don't know if Ohba intentionally put this symbolism in, but it works.
By finally allowing the reader to see the contrast between Light with the Death Note and Light without it, Ohba enables us to see him as a much more tragic character. The contrast lets us see just how much finding the Death Note has ruined his character and his life, and that it will likely continue to do so as the series progresses.
Aside from that, this volume also introduces a few new elments into the series:
A new Kira emerges with a different MO and set of ideals.
The Investigation team gets better resources and a new base of operations.
L recruits two new characters into the Investigation Team...shortly after one of its alrealy few members leaves.
This book is definitely reccommended, but only if you've read the first four in the series.
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Summary: Back on track and cruising along.
Comment: Tsugumi Ohba, Death Note: Whiteout (ViZ, 2006)
I may have been a bit hasty when I accused Death note of jumping the shark in my Love review last month. While I'm still not entirely convinced that Ohba's thinking more than an episode ahead at least part of the time, Whiteout begins a new story arc that should definitely keep things interesting (and on point) for a while.
Light gives up the death note, and so Ryuk, and all memories of him, vanish. Light is now certain he's innocent. When a third Kira appears, L has to weigh the benefits of having Light and Misa on his investigative team against the benefits of keeping them both locked up. The team traces Kira to a corporate boardroom-- but which of the board members, if any, is actually Kira?
Ohba's got focus back again, and so the series picks up its pace and gets interesting again. The good stuff returns! *** ½
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