Death Note

My favorite part of Death Note was definitely the character design for the Shinigami, and really the art in general. This was my first Manga and it had a very different feel than other comics I've read.

In class Stephen mentioned that the production process of mangas was different than that of comics. The bubbles are drawn by the artist and incorporated into the art, rather than being added later by a letterer. I thought that had a nice feel to it.


I really enjoyed the art but the story opened too fast. The whole thing really moves like a 14 year old boy wrote it, and I think that is probably the audience. At the beginning of the story the character finds a book, and almost immediately decides he is going to kill all the murderers in the world. This decision comes fast, and while the character does display some doubt, it seemed a stretch that a kid that is already too caught up in his own concepts of good and bad, would be able to kill so many people in such a short time.