The Death Note special one-shot (essentially a special, sole chapter in the Death Note world) is out in English, and it's free to read on the Viz media website.
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Death Note: Special One-Shot chapter now out, free to read
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Huh. How odd. The only reason to make something like that is for money...and they're giving it away. I don't get it but I'm happy.
Or to keep the brand in the public eye. Could mean it's just getting the franchise in the public eye because something is coming.
I remember when Shonen Jump many years ago did a Special One Shot for Rurouni Kenshin called Yahiko no Sakabatou
I kind of hope not. Death Note was a bit too much as it was. But man, the majority was so so so good.
At first I thought this was about the original chapter that they did way back when, before moving on with the full series. I remember reading it in How to Read.
I'll have to give this a read later. Wonder if it's actually a prelude to something.
I'll have to give this a read later. Wonder if it's actually a prelude to something.
I just got done reading this a few minutes ago and it was really fun. Minoru has a nice design and I like how he went about his plan, thought it was pretty cool especially its final step. Happy about them making this.
I would've preferred if he survived, doesn't feel fair that he died for a rule the Shinigami King added after he'd already succeeded in his plan. And Trump didn't even take the notebook so technically it feels like the buyer/seller thing shouldn't come into play
Yeah it felt like an out of nowhere asspull but I still enjoyed this for the most part. It was a fun read.
I was half-expecting everyone receiving the money to die and it to cause WWIII because everyone would assume Trump was responsible*. The ending is otherwise pretty contrived, and it feels like a letdown where Ohba realized he had come up with too good of a plan and needed to add a wrinkle that wasn't the dude's fault to make him fail.
(*Speaking of which, it's funny how when Trump appears in Japanese media he's conveyed as a big loud boastful jerk, but like, a normal big loud boastful jerk. The fact that he's actually an extremely weird guy who can barely speak English coherently without preparation, has all kind of strange tics and affectations, and seems unable to maintain a train of thought without randomly going off on strange and untrue tangents, is presumably lost in translation when suffering translators have to convert his statements into Japanese.)
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Great one shot for the point of the ending.
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Sucks that the MC dies though, but it further emphasizes the point that a person who does good gets screwed over, whilst another who values themself more just reaps the benefits.
That's what ultimately bugs me. Minoru should have been exempt since what he did was before the rule was added.
Probably had to be old enough to open a bank account
EDIT: Beaten like L
That was super good IMO. I've always wondered what would happen if the Death Note was dropped in today's world and this is pretty realistic. Also people saying the ending was stupid don't understand Ryuk's character, I feel he would have done the same.
Yeah, I liked this.
Trump gets to boost off of this while sending the US into further debt, but this kid dies cause he got a bunch of people money.
That was a fun read. Wouldn't mind if Ohba kept making one-shots like this more instead of trying to stretch a premise out unnecessarily.
I might need to reread it but wasn't the implication that just enough people were wired the money so that it wouldn't fuck everything up? It's not like everyone got rich.
Read it before.
I really liked it
I really liked it
- Kira's influence is so great in the short timespan of his dominance he is now in the history books and mainly people are taught not to follow him.
- Ryuk is still an apple lover.
- The main characters plan was actually really good.
- I assume Near is now L. Even as L is he still pretty bad as the role.
- L (Near) creates a 3d rendition of Ryuk then destroys it, like why?
- New rule introduced was pretty fun.
- Trump purchasing the book was, very political.
- I feel that many people don't unstand why the main character died. He died because he bored Ryuk not because of the new rule. Basically in a world of people who all have aims, the ones who have the most malicious and devasting entertains Ryuk. the MC didn't, so he timed his death to when he could acquire the money.
- Ryuk is still an apple lover.
- The main characters plan was actually really good.
- I assume Near is now L. Even as L is he still pretty bad as the role.
- L (Near) creates a 3d rendition of Ryuk then destroys it, like why?
- New rule introduced was pretty fun.
- Trump purchasing the book was, very political.
- I feel that many people don't unstand why the main character died. He died because he bored Ryuk not because of the new rule. Basically in a world of people who all have aims, the ones who have the most malicious and devasting entertains Ryuk. the MC didn't, so he timed his death to when he could acquire the money.
Like, I don't get people mad at the ending, did they not read/watch the original series? Ryuk would have done that anyway...