Deathnote by Tsugumi Ohba

What if you found a notebook that had the power to kill people? Any name of a person you knew the face of you wrote in the notebook would die within 45 seconds of writing the name. Would you be too scared to use the book? Would you decide to make the world a better place by killing evil people? What kind of a person would you be if you decided the latter? And would your new world really be a better place than the world we live in now? These are the kinds of questions answered in the Death Note series. It has finally finished being released in the U.S. and all the questions have been answered. This clever series asks a lot of its readers. It walks them through the minds of Light Yagami, the young man who finds the Death Note and his justification for using it the way he does. It also follows the police force headed by a mysterious man named L who is leading the chase to find Kira – the self proclaimed god who is killing all the evil doers of the world. The race to see who will defeat who is very intense and pulls the reader along through the entire series. But the reader is also faced with an agonizing question, is Light in the right? The author writes a very charismatic character for Light. In many ways right up to the end of the 12 th book I did not know what Tsugumi Ohba had planned for Light. This series will make readers re-examine the concept of absolute power corrupting absolutely. This unique story will be sure to please almost any reader of Manga. Highly recommended!

5 out of 5