Andre’s Reviews > Death Note, Vol. 13: How to Read > Status Update

Hard to tell whether this version of Ryuk is dumber or more sinister than the main version. He claims he has lost his second death note but...
Perhaps the former as this here ends totally different than the series.

Interesting, this here has a death eraser to bring people back to live as long as their corpes have not been cremated yet... makes you wonder what would happen with people who died by severe violence like a car accident or bullets. This could be really grizzly.

So Taro Kagami instead of Light Yagami.
And interestingly, this here has Taro be a bullied kid who doesn't know what the english word "death" means and finds the effect of the book out by coincidence.
Ryuk still looks pretty similar though, just more in shadows, showing less detail.
Plus here there is record of earlier cases of people using the note... that was something I found weird, no records of prior users?

Some of these few comic strip were funny, but others plain stupid. Maybe others have such a humor to find it funny.

One thing, the author's "humans will never change" is pretty fitting. When seeing the story I always thought his vision on humanity is rather negative and he doesn't understand much about criminality. It never seemed to occur to him that crime also can come from pressure and need, but in his case it seems rather "humans are bad and so they do it."

A Death Note personality test... sorry book, I like the story but I don't like it that much.

So the girl/woman at the end of Death Note who is praying was not Misa and they state that some think she is (including me), maybe they would not have thought that if the artist would have drawn a girl/woman that doesn't look so much, at least give her a different hairstyle or anything, or make her older.

So now there were all these tricks in it that they used in the manga.... well if that interests you.

According to this book Shidoh has a beak based on a canary bird:


Rem looks more like Medusa than this guy looks like a canary bird.
Also while he says there are no visual markers for male and female, it is obvious that none have breasts of any kind.

The inspiration for Rem's head was Medusa:


Ok.....