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DEATH NOTE (VOL. 10) [ADVANCE REVIEW] |
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Tuesday, 27 February 2007 |
 | | ▪ | PUBLISHED BY: | | VIZ MEDIA | | | ▪ | ART/AUTHOR: | | TSUGUMI OHBA / TAKESHI OBATA | | | | ▪ | FORMAT/COLOR: | | JAPANESE FORMAT/ BW | | | ▪ | PAGES: | | 184 | | | ▪ | RATED: | | T+ | | | ▪ | RELEASE DATE: | | 03/06/2007 | | | ▪ | REVIEW DATE: | | 02/28/2007 | | | ▪ | REVIEWED BY: | | HOLLY ELLINGWOOD |
The Kira supporters have attacked the SPK headquarters and Near is far too close to discovering who Kira really is. Near is so certain that the new L is Kira that he manages to set doubt gnawing in Aizawa’s heart and mind. Now the task force itself questions if Kira could be one of their own. To evade detection, Light once again sends the notebook to another. However, he may have chosen someone that may bring about Light’s doom.
An enthralling and dark series, it gets more tense with each volume. With both Mello and Near after Kira to get the Death Note, Light has to fight several complex attacks, some more devious than others. He proves his own layered thinking with how he keeps avoiding detection and fooling the task force. But with Aizawa’s new doubts, it may be only a matter of time before Light is discovered and his true identity revealed.
Although such devotion to a dream is admirable, the disturbing lengths Light goes to in order to achieve that dream may not be. Now with his renewal of an old flame, Kira/Light may have spread himself over more than even he can handle. Brilliant, with a single-minded dream to make the world a gentler place through Death, he will become a god. Unless someone stops him. But considering the evil witnessed so far, the question that keeps raising itself is should he be stopped?
He isn’t the only one with a righteous dream and a willingness to use unsettling methods. His new protégé is given quite a revealing background in this volume and in the end, as dedicated to Kira as Teru might be, he may very well choose the mantle of “God” as his own. The danger around Kira is like a maze that is thickening with even more corridors leading to not only dead ends, but death itself. Can Light remain Kira? Who else will die? And what of his ever increasing number of enemies?
IN SUMMARY:
The latest volume sees some pivotal changes to Light’s plan and those around him. Death Note is a dark and enthralling series. It is a manga with deeply textured art work and a captivating story. |
