Death Note 7
November 12, 2006
I think I spoiled myself silly on this one when I got 4-7 together. Since this was the end to the first half of the series, I cheated and peeked ahead to see what had happened. I think I may have read the entire damn thing over the course of doing this several times, but I reread it again tonight for good measure just to make sure I haven’t missed anything.
This wraps up the first series nicely by taking a bunch of stuff Light planned in secret and smacking you in the face with it. For sure this series has a lot of good characters, but they’ve got quite a king with Light. Light is not only one of the smartest manga characters among the series I read, but this personality trait is balanced out by a really sadistic side that’s extremely disconcerting whenever it shows itself. You find yourself cheering for Light, the main character, and yet you must keep in mind he’s some sort of soulless killer, good intentions or no. The looks he has on his face throughout the entire volume… !
But yes, we get a wrapup of everything that had happened underneath the watch of L here. Once everything is taken care of, it jumps ahead a number of years to show the characters as adults/older (and I must say, adults who for the most part don’t look too different) and a new type of investigation. The volume stops just before you get a good idea of whether or not Light has a good way of dealing with the two new contenders in the truly heartbreaking way that only Death Note volumes leave off.
I’m not sure how I feel about the two new characters. Well, that’s not true. I don’t like them so far because they’re messing with Light. One of them I KNOW I don’t like because I think he has one of the creepiest faces in manga history. If you have the volume, flip to the page where he’s reacting to the sad bit of news at the orphanage. Are those his eyes literally bugging out of his head?
Anyway, I read this one again, even though I was pretty sure I’d read it before, because I got volume 8 in the mail yesterday. So at least now I can see how Light’s going to treat the new kids on the block.
January 3, 2007 at 4:10 am
ahh I love this manga I was so pissed when I found out they hadn’t finished the anime and that I had to now find the manga and find the right volume damn that! but I got it in the end (yay) I loved misa when she came into it was there ever a girl with more style! its weird cos you know lights a bad guy and you know your ment to dislike him but you can’t its to hard I keep hoping he wins and stuff although if he kills L I don’t think I could forgive him! Its also cool that hes super clever as well as being hot and able to kill people with a book lol usually the leads of mangas are really stupid *cough* sailor moon, fushigi yugi (sp) *cough* but I guess its cos hes a guy and hes bad!
January 6, 2007 at 5:27 pm
I do like this series a lot. Where does the anime leave off? It seems strange that they wouldn’t finish the first story arc. I can kind of understand leaving the second half alone because I’ve heard it’s not as good, but the first story is quite amazing, and it seems like you could wrap up an anime nicely with it.
Keep reading the manga, though, it sounds like you haven’t gotten to the good parts yet, at least what I’ve read of this volume ^_^