Customer Reviews
Fascinating and involving - By: T. R. Alexander, 31 Dec 2007 
This second volume of the brilliant Death Note manga is just as engaging & enthrallling as the previous volume & sees the conflict between Kira & L gets tougher. In this volume Light Yagami must find a way to rid himself of the FBI surveillance without letting anybody know he is Kira. After the FBI are dealt with, L decides a gesture of faith is needed & he reveals himself to the much reduced NPA squad dealing with the Kira case.
Death Note continues to be brilliantly written, Light's slow decent into megalomania & L's own rather eccentric mannerisms are beautifully realised in both the script & the art. The books plot never ceases to be anything less than engrossing with many a twist along the way. This manga is not for the faint hearted however with many a subsidiary character being bumped off. This series just gets better & better.
Beautiful and as nasty as hell - By: ajm coen, 09 Jan 2007 The series starts off with a killer premise, & the second volume delivers on it in spadeloads. In this volume Light-kun becomes even more obsessive & perfectly psychopathic, 'cleansing' the world as an executioner with no-one to answer to. Finallly we are introduced to the peculiar & enchanting L, the introverted & ageless genius who boasts a few loose screws of his own. They are both willing to do anything to prove that their own brand of justice is the correct one, & with the absence of a narrative moral voice the reader is left to decide on their own who is right.
This one isn't for kids, as nearly the entire story is composed of dialogue, conjecture & exquisite headgames. When action arrives it is heartless; do not get attached to the secondary characters. This is a fine-tuned work & is intended neither for the emotionallly squeamish or for the splatter fans, & has no sex or nudity.
In a short sentence, *this is very very good*. Give it a few years, & if DeathNote isn't considered one of the finest bits of craft to come from Japan (or indeed from the human race) then there is no justice & Light-kun should be writing *everyone's* name in his little black book.
