Death Note: Black Edition

This is a great story. It has a legendary status in the manga world and rightfully so. Our main character Light Yagami finds a notebook (of death) belonging to Ryuk the shinigami (a demon of some sorts). Basically, if you write a name in it, that person will die. A character named only as L has been assigned to stop him.

The story made me think about good and evil. What would you do if you found yourself in a situation like Light? There are a lot of twists and turns that make the story interesting and exciting to read. The art is just like all the other manga I have read. It doesn't stand out like Vagabond, but it isn't bad either. As far as I know this edition of the manga has a bigger page size and contains two volumes in one book. The sides of the paper are black, it's a beautiful edition.

Even for people that normally don't read manga I would recommend this story.

I've always been really intrigued by Japanese culture and media. I watch the occasional anime, and like to play Japanese video games. For my next dive into this world, I thought why not try to get into mangas? So I purchased a few that I had either heard from, or that sounded interesting. Death Note, being pretty popular was one I heard about.

What did I like? The art. Most of the time. I love when animes are beautiful drawn. They can really spread some comfy feelings for me. Death Note had some of this. Scenes inside a classroom, in the city, or inside Lights bedroom were quite comfortable. Ryuk, the god of death, is perfectly drawn with his dead eyes and evil grin.

What else did I like? The overall story. But only nearing the end of Vol. 1. There are a few “twists” and elements getting thrown in at the end that could make it pretty interesting later on.

What I hated? The writing. Good god the writing is so bad. I understand that this is probably the fault of the translation (I hope), but this is really cringe worthy.
Light is such a weird character and his dialogues with Ryuk are really feeling forced.

I purchased Vol. 2 at the same time and will of course give it a go. But if there aren't some new awesome and engaging story elements that will hook me, I don't think I will continue this series. Especially if the writing keeps being so bad.