| | |  | SHONEN JUMP ADVANCED | Home » » » » Death Note, Vol. 13: How to Read | | | | | | | Description: | | An encyclopedic guide to the Death Note manga series, including character bios, storyline summaries, interviews with creators Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, production notes and commentaries, and bonus manga pages. Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects--and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer. With L hot on his heels, will Light lose sight of his noble goal…or his life? | | | Features: | |
• ISBN13: 9781421518886
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Tsugumi Ohba | | Paperback:
| 192 pages | | Publisher:
| VIZ Media, LLC | | Publication Date:
| February 19, 2008 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1421518880 | | Package Length:
| 8.0 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.2 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.8 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.75 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 11 reviews |
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2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Beyond "Death Note"Mar 22, 2009
Top reviewer here "Mister Myst" explains it all very well on how great this book is, but suffice it to say this is really THE companion book to own. If you want the others, sure, they're good, but I found this one to be incredible in a 'walkthrough' sort of way to the 9 disc series. It gives such detail on, not only what "L" likes to eat and WHAT he ate, but dates, times and place in the Death Note universe, not to mention character data and profiles on every single person or Shinigami to show their face in the series. Beyond that, I found DN to be so psychologically engaging and twisted that I found myself lost at times. This book helped keep me on track of fake Death Notes, Real Death Notes, Death Note owners, tricks used, secrets, revelations, Shinigami eyes, etc. and even less needed info as height, weight, likes and dislikes, and dossiers of characters. I'm telling you, it has everything.
Perhaps the only slight improvement could have been an even more detailed psych profile on significant core characters: Light, L, Near, Mello, Mikami, Matsuda and even Misa. Regardless of that minor flux, this is a well put together book/manual. If you're in the middle of the series read with caution as spoilers can pop out when you're not expecting it. It does follow the order of the series, but creator interviews reveal what happened to characters and you might not want to know.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Interesting Read for Death Note FansJan 03, 2009
A lot of different books, movies, etc. come out with the after-the-series books, they always seem like rip-offs that are boring, stupid and a waste of time and money. This is SO not the case for Volume 13! Every page was packed with little tidbits of information that were never given in the series! I especially enjoyed reading Ohba's and Obata's interviews, especially when they were talking to each other! I don't want to give away anything important, but if you area big fan of Death Note, you will not be disappointed by volume 13!
A volume to tie up all the loose endsDec 30, 2008
When I read this, it did tie up a lot of the loose ends and answered a lot of questions that were left hanging at the end of book 12. It is a must for trivia fans as well as those who want to know everything about the series.
However, my copy was straight from Viz and contained two extras: a card that had L's true name on it, and a glossy page of the cover (sans words). I also found a few discrepancies about the book in the database here and have also sent that in as well.
 Death Note 13Aug 14, 2008
This book is read like the manga, back to front. It's packed with information, interviews with the creators, timelines, character profiles, etc. Unfortunately, if you've followed the whole series closely, there's not a LOT of new information, but there are quite a few interesting bits. The interviews with the writer and the artist were really cool. I really liked where they show how the art went from the writer's quick stick figure drawings to the artists interpretations.
Probably the best thing in this book is the original "pilot" of Death Note. The story and the basic rules of the Death Note changed a lot from that original story.
I gave it 3 stars because a) a lot of the information is stuff that big fans of the manga and anime probably already know, and b) a lot of the print is very small and the pages are kind of cluttered and can be hard to read.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 A little something more.Jun 12, 2008
I was very sad to finish the last installation of the Death Note manga series, and How to Read filled a little bit of the void for me. It was terrific to learn more about my favorite characters, to enter the minds of the author and illustrator, and just spend a little more time in the world which I grew to love through the manga. Highly reccomended to Death Note fans.
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