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Death Note News Digest - January 2016

31/1/2016

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There were twenty-two articles on Death Note News during January 2016.  It also constituted the month when the archives finally worked again and our On This Day in Death Note calendar began, with the deaths of Matt, Mello and Kiyomi Takada on January 26th.

Here are the Death Note news stories that we were talking about at the start of 2016:
December 2015 Death Note News Digest
Death Note News Digest
- December 2015


Death Note News 2016
What Can You Expect from
Death Note News in 2016?

Death Note Panini Comics Mx
Panini Comics Mexico Death Note Manga Republished in New Volumes

Metrosexual Mello Death Note
David Bowie Mello Death Note haircut
Metrosexual David Bowie
A Metrosexual Tribute to
David Bowie by Mello


Death Note Nathaniel Overthinks
Nathaniel Overthinks Death Note #03:
L's Philosophical Materialist Thinking


Masataka Kubota in new role
TV Death Note's Kira in New Mystery
Crime Fighting Role for NTV


EXID Hani KPop
Korean Death Note L Junsu
Musical Death Note L finds Love
Backstage with K-Pop Star


Updates for Death Note News
Why are Old Posts Appearing in the
Death Note News Pinterest Stream?


School Judgment: Gakkyu Hotei vol 1
School Judgment: Gakkyu Hotei Manga Volumes Launched February 2016, Co-Created by
Death Note Artist Takeshi Obata


Death Note Near Tarot Tower
Death Note Tarot Tales II: Near's Tarot in the Death Note One-Shot Special

Death Note News Death Note manga gift store
Death Note Manga Store Fully Updated
on Death Note News


Yûsuke Murata
Yûsuke Murata - Once Assistant to Takeshi Obata, Now Mangaka in his Own Right - Profiled in French Magazine AnimeLand

L actor Junsu Golden Ticket Award
Golden Ticket Theatrical Award for Kim Jun-su - Korean Musical Death Note's L

Arsenal Aaron Ramsey Death Note
Arsenal's Death Note? Italian Newspaper Contemplates Possible Footballing Kira

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The Cosplayer Chronicles:
Squad Six Cosplayers' Death Note Panel
at Ichibancon


Fan art for MRSJeevas Mello/Matt fan fiction
New Fan-Art Based on MRSJeevas's
MelloxMatt Fan-Fiction It Matters Series


Holocaust Memorial Day 2016 logo
Death Note Ryuk Shinigami Realm
Death Note and Holocaust Memorial Day:
What if Kira Killed Hitler, or Would They be Hypothetically Akin?


Death Note anime L Phone
All Archived Death Note News Articles
Updated to Fit the New Site Now!


Death of Light Yagami Jan 28th 2010
On This Day in Death Note:
January 28th 2010


January 26th Death Note
On This Day in Death Note:
January 26th 2010


Announcement Viz Media Blanc et Noir Takeshi Obata book pre-order

It's Here! Limited Edition, 10,000 Run of Takeshi Obata's Blanc et Noir in English Just Became Available for Pre-order!

Death Note News Jan 2016
Death Note News Digest
- January 2016



Are You Ready for Death Note Month of Light Yagami?

Coming up, throughout the
month of February 2016, an
exciting new feature with a rather
very special guest.

What will you share for Kira?

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It's Here! Limited Edition, 10,000 Run of Takeshi Obata's Blanc et Noir in English Just Became Available for Pre-order!

28/1/2016

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It's finally out! Takeshi Obata's book of artwork - Blanc et Noir - in the English language!

We've been promised this by Viz Media for quite some time. Now it's actually upon us - in a limited edition run of only 10,000 copies available for pre-order. 

That's just 10,000 editions of Blanc et Noir to serve the entire English speaking world.  Expect a rush on.

Takeshi Obata's art book is officially out on May 3rd 2016. But early bird buyers can snatch a copy now - or at least a guarantee that they'll eventually own one - via retailers like Amazon.

This special edition print of Blanc et Noir: Takeshi Obata Illustrations includes three laminated double-sized posters alongside 132 pages of exquisitely illustrated Obata artwork - the vast majority of which is Death Note, including several of the posters.

These are the kind of full colour, highly detailed pieces that the mangaka would have pulled off, if he'd had infinite time to dedicate to each panel. It's a glimpse of Death Note as it could have been, if it was literally Takeshi Obata's life work.

The artist himself chats for a further twelve pages in explanatory commentary about his pics; ten shares his expertise in a How to Draw tutorial.

I do want. It's beyond 'sell my granny' territory. For this you can have my entire extended family, the missus and both of my kittens too. Gimme!

And naturally, we've already shoved it into the reference section of the Death Note News books and manga shop.
Blanc et Noir: Takeshi Obata Illustrations

Cover of this limited print, Death Note rarity the
Takeshi Obata illustrated Blanc et Noir art book
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On This Day in Death Note: January 28th 2010

28/1/2016

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On this Day in Death Note Jan 28th
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Death Note and Holocaust Memorial Day: What if Kira Killed Hitler, or Would They be Hypothetically Akin?

27/1/2016

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Holocaust Memorial Day 2016
All over the world today, people are marking Holocaust Memorial Day.

Set on January 27th because that was the date, in 1945, which saw the liberation of Auschwitz.  It's not just an historical 'woe, woe, that was bad' endeavour - though of course it was - but an awareness raising, bridge building day with one key message and goal. 

Never again.


It will happen again.  No historian, nor human rights campaigner, let alone sociologist or political commentator, is naive enough to think it won't.  All of the elements which gave rise to the Third Reich in the first place, and its horrific Final Solution of death camps, execution squads and gas chambers, exist right now. They swim endlessly in our society, often in the background, with a quite worrying frequency coming back to the fore.
Right now, religious leaders in France are warning Jews to not wear their skullcaps, as it renders them too visible a target.  French Jews are beginning to flee their country - as yet a trickle, in danger of becoming an exodus. All across Europe, borders are being closed to those fleeing war and arbitrary cruelties in Syria.

In Britain, asylum seekers were made to don - and keep on 24/7 - distinctive wristbands in Cardiff, thus ensuring that they were publicly identifiable at a glance. While in the north-east of England, refugees housed by the Home Office found that their front doors had been painted bright red. All the better for local thugs and hoodlums to know were they lived.

Everywhere the Far Right is gaining more ground politically than at any other time since the Holocaust.

The USA has a concentration camp, which its citizens apparently don't deem worth rising in enough numbers to pressure their government to close. Because they haven't. While momentum is gathering beyond presidential candidate Donald Trump, whose views wouldn't have been out of step with Hitler's Nazi Regime, including conceptual support for race based internment camps.
Kira Worshippers

In a culture of supposed danger and fear, people will support anything which makes them feel safe.

Meanwhile, Australia is condemning thousands of people to unaccountable 'detention facilities' on islands off their shores.  Human Rights inspectors have been banned from entering.  Legal processes are done in utmost secrecy (with no evidence that they're being done at all). The reports coming out of places like Manus Island and Nauru are unsettling to say the least.  North Korea undoubtedly has death camps. About which much lip service in shaking head disapproval has been afforded by the outside world. But not enough to do anything about it.

All this makes 'never again' seem like a joke.  'Not on my watch' is about the best we can do, and even then it's a terribly uphill struggle.

We have Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27th, not because people forget, but because they forget the specifics and that's what allows the memory to metamorphose into lived experience.

Never again indeed, and certainly not on my watch.

Kira and the Nazi Party: Would our Saviour be Light Yagami in the Holocaust?

Manga Death Note Kira righteous judgment
However, while these sentiments might be very noble and all, it begs the question - why is Holocaust Memorial Day on Death Note News' watch?  It's a little off-topic for a manga (and derivatives) set half a century on from said Auschwitz liberation. 

You got me. Guilty as charged.  Holocaust historian here, ninja-ing an important date in my calendar into the remit of Death Note.

But because it's an important date, and my thoughts are otherwise largely swirling around content for articles here, the two merged in a musing during my commute this morning:  what if Kira had come a couple of generations before?  What if Light Yagami's statement that 'the world is rotten' had taken place against a global back-drop of World War II, the rise of Hitler and the actuality of the Holocaust?

Would the names written in his Death Note have included Heinrich Himmler, Martin Bormann, Josef Mengele, Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels and the rest of their ilk?  What would have happened historically, if Kira took out Rudolf Höss before he'd perfected killing on an industrial scale with Zyklon B and cremations?

An intriguing 'what if' in history, but not one which could be answered easily and definitely not within the scope of this article.

Is Justice Served by Kira if his Death Note Ends Genocide?

What concerned me more was the logical query following on - if Kira single-handedly averted the Holocaust through mass murder, does that make him the good guy?  Or just as bad as those he sought to destroy?

The human rights activist in me wants to say the latter.  The historian is wide-eyed and tight lipped with quivering self-horror at my sensibility's tacit assent for the former.

The philosopher of my first degree mutters on about two wrongs not making a right.

The literary critic snaps that this is precisely the sort of dilemma encountered by all within the canon Death Note universe, during the ascendancy of Kira's New World.

I'm sure we can all very keenly picture Near's sneering reaction in disdain of the question.  For him, Kira is a serial killer no matter what the underlying cause.  There is no justification.  Not even the millions consigned to the gas chambers, starved, exposed to epidemics, subjected to scientific/medical experimentation or shot into mass graves.  Even then, Light Yagami is just a murderer.

Where do you stand on the issue?

Imagining a Nazi Kira and the Death Note's Final Solution

Of course, this is all assuming that Light Yagami morally and actively opposed the Holocaust.  It must be remembered that Japan allied WITH Nazi Germany during the period when the Final Solution was being enacted.

Our sense of right and wrong, just or unfair, moral or corrupt, is shaped by our upbringing, societal pressures and the drip-drop of propaganda as fed by every nation's media on any given day.  More so than any of us would like to admit.  Hence it's reasonable to assume that Light Yagami's chief exposure to the Holocaust would be within a generally supportive cultural back-drop.  His information and resultant position could well be akin to Hitler and his government.

Which leads us to another proposal ranked with horrors:  what if Light's Death Note was used for the Nazis?  How even more widespread might be the Final Solution with the Death Note involved?  (Political dissidents, or fleeing refugees known by name and photograph, reached without resource to a death camp.)
Or more pertinently put, what if the Death Note fell into the hands of Nazis?  Then and now.

How much more terrifying might our watch be?  And would we ever get the chance to say 'never again'?

Or could collusion create yet more greatly amassed clues to Yagami's own identity? To play out with deductive precision in a Wammy House mind, thus rendering Kira's capture a swifter endeavour?

Or don't you think Light Yagami would have involved himself in the Holocaust at all?  Ignoring its reality, just as so many of us continue on apathetically when faced with elements today similar to those once staged by a burgeoning Nazi regime. 

A pointless musing perhaps, but one which pays dividends in awareness on a day like this.

Over to  you.
Death Note shinigami realm Ryuk
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On This Day in Death Note: January 26th 2010

26/1/2016

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All Archived Death Note News Articles Updated to Fit the New Site Now!

25/1/2016

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It's been like torture; the slow drip-drip of something gradually hurting more and more. An effort of Herculean proportions deserved of a mention here, if not an actual medal.

Every single post to Death Note News has been revisited to ensure that they are legible on our website.

What was Wrong with the Articles?

By which we mean we've fixed any or all of the below issues habitually triggered by our recent redesign:
  • Whole articles/random blocks of text greyed out;
  • Paragraphs, pictures or headlines rearranged with chaotic abandon;
  • Images just gone completely, vanished like they were never there;
  • Picture captions divorced from the image they wish to illuminate;
  • Alt descriptions removed, so no-one using sight accessibility software had any clue what image lay there, and search engines couldn't find them either;
  • Dates of submission shifted a day up or down, making it seem that Death Note News was either presentient or late with the news;
  • SEO summaries scrambled or disappeared - rendering it slightly more irritating to share our articles on social media, whilst search engines demote or disdain us;
  • Headlines suddenly reading only in lower case;
  • More... much more... a whole Hellish array of more...
It's taken weeks.

So why did we put ourselves through this?  I think it had to be punishment, for being bad in a previous life.  Well, and this one.  A bit. One or two incidents for which there remains no pic, no proof.

Innocent by default by now.  Somebody call Amnesty International!  Quick!

No Really - Why Did the Death Note News Archives Need Fixing?

Death Note One-Shot Special Manga Kira victims

Scene backstage at Death Note News as staff saw the state of July 2015...
It looked a mess. Hundreds of older articles and posts were affected - sometimes whole months worth left unreadable - which was a) annoying to anyone wishing to peruse them; b) disappointing to those wanting to link them elsewhere to win arguments against other people being wrong on the internet; and c) a terrible slap to those writers who had created them in the first place. 

Some of the latter were guest contributors, for whom we do have a responsibility to be respectful of their work.

Finally, the Death Note News readership is growing so fast.  Some 3000 page views (with 400-500 unique visitors) a day is becoming the norm, when we'd only just got used to last month's norm of just over 2000 of the former, 300 or so of the latter.  Many of these people are finding us through historical links appearing in searches or passed on, word of mouth, via social networking. 

Can you imagine having that many visitors turn up and the place is looking like a mess?  Our mothers didn't raise us like that. They would be mortified!

Nor do we want to know said visitors were left disappointed, because the page that enticed them here was, in all likelihood, destroyed by the redesign.
Anime Death Note L on the phone

Perhaps Reverse the Redesign of Death Note News' Website?


The redesign was simply because too many of you are now reading Death Note News on smartphones and other small screened gadgets.

With the entire site infrastructure changed, it's made everything responsive to the variables of modern cellular devices, and their apps.

Besides we tried that - reversing the Death Note News website redesign - it didn't return anything to normal.  So we might as well continue on and upwards, catering to all electronics and ensuring that all our readers can in fact read the content in our little corner of cyberspace.

You're welcome.

What Now?

As far as we're concerned, all of the Death Note News archived articles are perfectly formatted, legible and each of their elements are arranged in optimum order to be enjoyed.  We won't be tatting in there as a matter of course anymore.

Naturally, there will be something missed, overlooked or which reasserted itself into chaos the second its fixed version was republished.  We'd appreciate any feedback if you spot anything awry.

Though be gentle in telling us.  We're all still twitching.  Wrap the head's up in cake or something.  In fact, just send the cake!

And thanks.
Portal 2 cake
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New Fan-Art Based on MRSJeevas's MelloxMatt Fan-Fiction It Matters Series

23/1/2016

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He Moves Me Differently MelloxMatt It Matters website banner MRSJeevas
It's only taken months (years...) but there have been some art updates over on the He Moves Me Differently website.  It's not that the art hasn't been there to update, just that Matti hasn't got round to coding the pages to make it so.

Walls Came Tumbling Down and Ghosting the Street now have fan artwork sections.  In the case of the former, that's just about the only thing it has in it!  In addition there's artwork for the smaller stories by MRS Jeevas too.

They include such gems as these:
Walls Came Tumbling Down: Young Mello in Bumblebee Hat by Aqua Cola

WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN

Bonnie, Little Thing...
by Aqua Cola
December 13th 1994: Mello and Matt Nightmare Before Xmas by Chiroptera

DECEMBER 13TH 1994

Mello and Matt: Nightmare Before Xmas
by Chiroptera
Ghosting the Street: Rockabilly Bubbles by Chiroptera

GHOSTING THE STREET

Rockabilly Bubbles
by Chiroptera
Ghosting the Street: Matt's New Hair Do by Chiroptera

GHOSTING THE STREET

Matt's New Hair Do
by Chiroptera
There are more pieces of artwork inspired by the It Matters series to be added to the website.  Mostly it's a case of tracking them all down from where they've been languishing on-line awaiting this moment of industrious coding on Matti's part.  However, there's plenty more already up there, in He Moves Me Differently Artwork area, from many artists amassed over many years gone by.

There also promises to be much more to come in the future too.

AquaCola has returned to art after a period of enforced Real Life occurring. She appears to be getting back into the groove largely by sketching scenes from Matti's novels.  You can see her works in progress over various threads in the forum, alternatively find her on Tumblr.

Meanwhile, Chiroptera is on her fifth read-through of Matti's Mello and Matt fan-fiction novels.  The muse has most definitely taken her, with the three pictures above, another two artworks in progress AND a thread asking for requests from the rest of the readership.  You can catch up with Chiroptera (and glimpse even more works in progress) on her Tumblr account.

In fact, during the time it's taken me to write this, she's sketched another - fairly risque - image of Mello and Matt, which would certainly hold resonance in the Death Note Matti!Universe.  Hurrah!
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The Cosplayer Chronicles: Squad Six Cosplayers' Death Note Panel at Ichibancon

22/1/2016

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Squad Six Cosplayers Death Note News




We've been following the fortunes of
Squad Six Cosplayers,
as they prepared to host
Resurrecting L: Death Note 10th Anniversary
panel at Ichibancon 7
in North Carolina.

Here is how they got on.

Squad Six Cosplayers Death Note panel Ichibancon 7

Resurrecting L: Death Note 10th Anniversary panel at Icibancon 7
Squad Six Cosplayers were at Ichibancon, one of the largest anime and manga conventions in North Carolina, USA.  There, in Events 4 room, we held our Death Note review panel - Resurrecting L - to mark the 10th anniversary since the manga's first chapter was published in Weekly Shonen Jump.

Since then, Ohba and Obata's story has become an institution, we hope we did it justice.

Ichibancon's Resurrecting L: Death Note 10th Anniversary panel happened on January 1st 2016, at 11pm.  We should have finished by midnight, but the buzz was awesome and we were having so much fun discussing the new media developments for Death Note.  We almost ran well over time!

Here's how it all played out.  But first the cosplay and, created from scratch, a dress for Misa Amane.

Lara Sizemore: Cosplay Misa Misa Suicide Dress

Squad Six Cosplayers: Matsuda and Misa at Ichibancon 7

Squad Six Cosplayers Justin as
Touta Matsuda and Lara as Misa Amane
Lara Sizemore Misa Amane Cosplay

Lara's Cosplay Misa Misa Suicide Dress
Death Note Cosplayers at Ichibancon 7: Misa and Light; Lara Sizemore and Cayanna Carma

Squad Six Cosplayers founder Lara with special guest Cayanna Carma as Light Yagami
Each of Squad Six Cosplayers' Death Note panel members arrived for the event in full Death Note cosplay.  Every part of which had been created especially for Ichibancon during the run up to the convention. 

Founder Lara Sizemore opted to cosplay Misa Amane.  She explained, "I chose to do Misa's Last dress/suicide dress instead of her usual ensemble as sort of a nod to our title. It took me two weeks to complete the dress but I am very proud of it. The ribbons are all appliquéd on."  She makes it sound so easy.

As for the rest, they were in Death Note costume too!

Death Note Cosplay for Squad Six Cosplayers at Ichibancon 7

Squad Six Cosplayers with Cayanna Carma at Ichibancon Death Note panel




From l-r you are seeing:


Justin as Touta Matsuda
Lara as Misa Amane
Cayanna Carma as Light Yagami
Sara as L
Lindz as Near
and on the floor,
Logan as Beyond Birthday

Kicking in the New Year with a Death Note Panel at Ichibancon January 1st 2016

Squad Six Cosplayers with Cayanna Carma at Ichibancon Death Note panel
Squad Six Cosplayers with Cayanna Carma at Ichibancon Death Note panel
Squad Six Cosplayers with Cayanna Carma at Ichibancon Death Note panel

The event was very well attended. Despite its late hour, three quarters of the venue was full.

It was great fun!  With a tremendous amount of audience participation too.

We had five grand prize questions with the winners awarded a very L-inspired Death Note prize.  It was a dessert glass with his iconic monograph printed on the side.

Inside was a pile of chocolate/apple flavoured candy, plus two bubblegums with wrappers sporting bright red eyes - shinigami eyes, if we ever saw them. In addition, those correctly guessing the answer received a packet of chips (crisps for our European readers) and an apple.

Nor were we the only ones in cosplay.  There were several others in the audience, including a few in Death Note cosplay.
Squad Six Cosplayers with Cayanna Carma at Ichibancon Death Note panel
Christian morrison L Cosplay Ichibancon 7

Christian Morrison - L Cosplay at Ichibancon Death Note panel

Cayanna Carma Takes on Light Yagami for Ichibancon's Death Note Panel

One of our great coups was to have famed cosplayer Cayanna Carma as our special guest at the Death Note Ichibancon panel. 

She is renowned throughout the North Carolinian cosplay circuit for the realism that she brings to her roles. Cayanna Carma didn't just dress as Light Yagami, she became him.

It was in the subtleties, of which no photograph will ever adequately convey, no matter how many taken of her in action.

It really felt like Kira sitting there, ramrod straight and charming. Watching everyone and reacting, as Light Yagami might believably react, to all that occurred.  Serious, even in the face of Sara's shenanigans as L.

Her presence went down a storm with the crowd, just as we hoped it would. In fact, many of those there might have attended simply to watch Cayanna Carma cosplay Kira.

Sitting alongside her on the panel, interacting like we were with Light Yagami himself, was certainly a pleasure for Squad Six Cosplayers.

Once again, we thank Cayanna Carma for being our very special guest at Ichibancon 7's Resurrecting L: Death Note 10th Anniversary panel, and hope that these pictures provide some glimpse of what it was like watching our star cosplayer perform on the night.
They included the L cosplayer pictured left - our old friend Christian Morrison in costume and character - and another Misa Misa too.
Meanwhile, we technically had two L cosplayers on the stage with us.

After all, Logan was cosplaying as Beyond Birthday cosplaying L - Another Note does say that it took layers of cosmetics and a certain outfit before BB looked anything like the detective he was trying to emulate.  That's cosplaying!

With Sara there too, as our group's actual L cosplayer, having lots of fun with Squad Six Cosplayers' special guest for the evening, Cayanna Carma as Light Yagami.
Squad Six Cosplayers: Logan as BB and Sara as L
Squad Six Cosplayers at Ichibancon 7
Squad Six Cosplayer Sara as L; Cayanna Carma as Light Yagami
Light Yagami cosplay Cayanna Carma at Ichibancon 7 Death Note panel
Light Yagami cosplay Cayanna Carma at Ichibancon 7 Death Note panel
Light Yagami cosplay Cayanna Carma at Ichibancon 7 Death Note panel

That's it for Squad Six Cosplayers!  I hope you've enjoyed our Cosplayer Chronicles on Death Note News.
Thank you for reading!

If you wish to catch up with us in all our other projects and endeavours, please do join us on Tumblr and Facebook.
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Arsenal's Death Note? Italian Newspaper Contemplates Possible Footballing Kira

20/1/2016

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What if Kira killed by scoring goals in premiership football matches?  That's the scenario pondered by journalist Marco Buonasorte in Il Giornale d'Italia.

English top league football club Arsenal was founded by workers from the nearby Woolwich Royal Arsenal in London.  Now the modern day team may have added a Death Note to its  horde of weaponry.  At least if today's musings in an Italian newspaper are correct.
Aaron Ramsey as Kira?

The curse of Aaron Ramsey, as described
in Il Giornale d'Italia (January 20th 2016)
It appears that whenever midfielder Aaron Ramsey scores a goal, somebody famous dies within twenty four hours.

Just check out this tally:

May 1st 2011:  Ramsey scores against Manchester United; next day - Osama bin Laden assassinated;

October 2nd 2011: Back of the net versus Tottenham Hotspur; three days later - goodnight Steve Jobs... that's not 24 hours;

October 19th 2011: Another goal against Marseille; October 20th - Colonel Gaddafi assassinated;

February 10th 2012: Goal past the Sunderland keeper; October 11th 2012 - Whitney Houston dead (surely pushing a theory way beyond its limits!);

On and on until Aaron Ramsey scores BOTH goals in Arsenal 2-1 win over Sunderland (again) on January 9th 2016.  Followed by the death of David Bowie on January 10th. Then another one versus Liverpool on January 13th, with the sad demise of Alan Rickman the very next day.

However, before anyone points at Ramsey and screams soccer playing Light Yagami, Buonasorte does point out that statistical analysis can throw up many a spurious correlation and we aren't to hold too much store in it.

Unless the curse of Aaron Ramsey is real, in which case surely he should be banned from a premiership football pitch for life.  Or get signed by the Wolves.

What do you make on it?   The Italian paper lists many, many more correlations than those repeated here.
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Golden Ticket Theatrical Award for Kim Jun-su - Korean Musical Death Note's L

19/1/2016

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Junsu with Golden Ticket Award for L Death Note Musical

Junsu with his Golden Ticket Award for his portrayal of Death Note's L
Kim Jun-su's performance as L in the Death Note Musical has netted him an accolade Korean theatrical industry.

Interpark - which represents the ticketing side of live theatre in Korea - named him as its 10th Golden Ticket winner, mostly for his successful run in the role of L.

The Golden Ticket Awards are based on hard statistical data from the box offices. Winners are those who prompted the most ticket sales, in addition to attracting the most votes from theatre goers and critics surveyed at the venue. 

Attendees were asked to highlight those actors delivering the strongest performances on stage.

Just over 90,000 people watched JYJ's Junsu perform as L, in fifty-seven productions of Death Note the Musical, staged at Seongnam Arts Center in Seoul during July and August 2015.

Every show sold out with audience members pretty much unanimous in their praise for the L actor's 'outstanding performance'.  That and hard figures from the box office secured his industry prize.

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Yûsuke Murata - Once Assistant to Takeshi Obata, Now Mangaka in his Own Right - Profiled in French Magazine AnimeLand

19/1/2016

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Yûsuke Murata won a manga art competition when he was just twelve years old.  He served his artistic apprenticeship with Death Note's Takeshi Obata; now he's known in his own right for work on such seminal manga as One-Punch Man and his debut work Eyeshield 21 (2002).

Taking the mystery from the art, Murata wows his fans with live streams, as he works on his pages from famous manga.
Mangaka Yûsuke Murata

Yûsuke Murata
Courtesy of Natalie.mu
All of this we know from French magazine AnimeLand, which is currently running a profile on Yûsuke Murata, highlighting his work, artistry and current projects.  People may also follow him on Twitter.

Of peripheral interest to Death Note fans, but nevertheless still interest.

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Death Note Manga Store Fully Updated on Death Note News

18/1/2016

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Death Note Book Shop on Death Note News
Sales of Death Note literature on Death Note News
(Screenshot January 18th 2016)
So you think you've read (and probably own) every book about Death Note? Check out our store, you might be surprised.

We certainly have been.  During a whole weekend of hunting down errant manga and other literary Death Note works, there were tomes we'd never heard of, let alone read.

And coming from a gang of such Death Note obsessives, that's quite saying something.

For example, did you know about L: File Number 15?  A canon book of short Death Note cartoons created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata.  Half of our team did not.

Or what about Notes of Reasoning, the Chinese novel by Zao An Xia Tian? Which may or not not be a canon work taking the Death Note universe and adapting it to a Chinese setting.  Or it may be an elaborate and published piece of fan-fiction.  We don't know. None of us speak Chinese.

How about the hardback special editions of Death Note manga that exist out there in the English language?  Some of those even took us by surprise, missing our radar entirely.

As you may have surmised, this weekend has been a time of skipping interesting things and putting our nose to the grind of finding, collating, formatting and arranging  Death Note books everywhere, in various languages, across the board of genres.

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It's worth nipping inside, if only to discover what you may have missing from your own library collection.  But also to purchase a volume or two to help with the costs of running this website.  Enjoy!  And if you buy, thank you.

In addition the anime/movie Death Note store has been tidied up, hence will be easier to open, load and navigate.  While the music merchandise has had one or two updates too.


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Death Note Tarot Tales II: Near's Tarot in the Death Note One-Shot Special

16/1/2016

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A continuing look at tarot cards, archetypes
and symbolism in Death Note
with Death Note News columnist
Tarot Mikami


~ This time exploring how
Near uses tarot
in the manga one-shot
to represent all that is going on

Tarot Mikami Death Note News columnist banner
The Death Note One-Shot Special was published in Weekly Shonen Jump's February 2008 edition. Created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, this 46 page stand alone chapter acted as a sequel to the events in the main Death Note manga.
When it seems a new Kira has emerged from the ether, former SPK agents Hal Lidner and Anthony Rester approach Near to see what he's going to do about it. After all, he is the new L now and everyone knows that L takes on Kira.  Or does he? 

Well, yeah, as long as he accepts that his opponent really is Kira.  If not, then why take a Fool's Journey along the same old pathway, as directed by an imitator. Near's already taken those steps and learned those lessons. He's already in possession of that world.  As underscored and illustrated throughout this one-shot Death Note manga sequel by use of tarot imagery.

L's successor - now L - quite literally occupies The World in tarot.  He's created a whole world from the cards!

Near's Position in the Death Note Manga One-Shot

As Matsuda makes clear before we even glimpse Near, the current L is in a position of considerable power in this new post-Kira world.  Especially as regards understanding and information. 

The story takes place nine years after Light Yagami received a Death Note from the Shinigami Ryuk, and three years since his serial killing persona Kira was killed by the same. All of which was not only orchestrated and witnessed by Near, but he also obtained custody of said Death Note AND calls the shots on what details enter the public sphere.  There is some intelligence known for certain only to Near - like the whereabouts/Fate of that deadly notebook - which he expects others simply to take his word on trust.

Near not only has the keenest overview of this world as far as Kira concerns it, but he is able to determine all future aspects of Kira within it.  Light Yagami might once have thought himself God of This New World. But in reality, it turned out to be Near.

He and/or the Death Note creators - Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata - choose to express that with use of the tarot, tarot cards and the Fool's Journey through the Major Arcana (though the latter is largely implied).   And by 'Near's world in tarot cards', I mean that quite explicitly.

Our First View of Near in Death Note One-Shot

Hal Lidner and Anthony Rester Death Note one-shot
When Hal Lidner and Anthony Rester enter Near's hub, it's to find themselves confronted by a wall of cards.  Superimposed against a view of the city, representing the world outside.

We see this urban sprawl first. It's a telescoping within from tower, as context and location, to room as specific spot wherein lurks the current L. But it also emphasizes the fact that we're seeing their environment/territory/universe.  At its centre, there's Near; architect and creator of the cityscape in cards.
Near inside a tarot world Death Note One-Shot

Death Note's Near tarot card world
In truth, these could be any old cards (though the minor arcana in tarot is the four suits of playing cards anyway).  However, it's made overt in the next clutch of panels that Near chose tarot with which to build his card tower's massive expanse.
Death Note One Shot Near's Tarot card tower
After underscoring again that that Near knows everything (the panel after this states that he's 100% certain that a Death Note is involved in the latest killing spree by one labelled Kira via those denizens of the world wide web), he goes on to prioritize in importance the safety of his 'tarot card tower'.

The world he's constructed in the wake of the previous Kira tops that being introduced by this new one.

The World in Near's Tarot Card Tower

I have repeatedly used 'The World' in conjunction with Near in this Death Note manga special. This is no accidental over-usage of the words. The World is the last card of the tarot's major arcana. It's the final trump to play.  It's what there is to play for.

The World's meaning is to return to the beginning but, as the poet says, see it again for the first time.  Those in control of The World, or in a World state, recognize the signs for an environment in which they originally tramped through in all ignorance. Only this time they have the overview; experience from lesson's learned and teachers along the way; and incorporate within their own personalities the archetypes enacted by the previous arcana.

To enter The World is to complete the circle, thus finish the story.  Typically, the possessor of The World will ape the stance of The Fool from card zero. Only instead of blithely heading straight towards an unseen cliff-edge, they will note the abyss before them, smile knowingly and step right over it.  Then they fly.

It achieves a bird's eye view of everything below in manageable, surmountable, graspable miniature. All they survey, they know.  The World is their oyster; it belongs to them entirely.

Thus is Near situated here.  Warning Lidner and Rester not to 'knock over his tarot card tower' - The World he holds; built of all he mastered in the journey towards its construction - because that would indicate a brand, new world for the making.  But first, he has to double check.  Only then can he soar over his cliff-edge in complete (intellectual) ownership of all he surveys.

Contemplating L - Original Wammy Fool of the Death Note Universe

Tarot Near thinking of L in Death Note One-Shot Special

Near uses tarot cards to think about L in Death Note One-Shot Special
It has to be assumed that Near understands the symbolism and archetypes inherent in the tarot. At least, insofar as that's all we ever see from his decks, those of the major arcana.  Assuming that he hasn't just got a pack arranged precisely beside him at all times, then Near is seen picking a card at random in order to begin his contemplation of L.

As his Wammy predecessor on the original Kira case, L may be viewed as the original Fool.  The first one to undertake this journey, which Near then inherited. Therefore all cards in the tarot would pertain to L.

And to Near too, upon the same journey.  He and L together may take an overview through the way-makers and ponder the states learned, mastered and/or understood.  His insight isn't into one specific point, but them all.  If Near knew less about the tarot, then he might have opted for a single card, one which he knew intimately and/or triggered the pensive subject.

Moreover, because he inherited this case from L the original Fool, it's to L's mindset Near must return to identify the start.  There to recognize it most fully when it's viewed again from the end.  'What would L do?' pretty much delineates the boundaries of this quest; the rules of the game, determining failure or success; and what Near must consider most important of all in concluding the same right now.

If you like, L drew the lines in the sand to begin the battle.  Now Near has to return to where that was, in order to draw a line under the Kira case, so to end it.

Death card in Death Note One-Shot Special

The Death Card and Light Yagami

We never see the card which Near pulled out to muse upon with, and about, L.

However we are privy to that which followed, pertaining to Light Yagami as the original Kira. It was the major arcana tarot card Death.

Usually I sigh when this turns up in fictional media, as it invariably means something other than is obvious to the non-tarot reading viewer.  Death indicates more of a transformation than actual base and physical death. Though that can factor, insofar as it is a transformative state.

However, this does mean here what the dialogue requires Death to mean.

It's never stated what Kira did (any Death Note fan reading by now will already know), only that his actions brought about a transformation in crime rate and war.  Both for the better, as the tarot's Death state is wont to achieve too.

In Near's personal life, Kira represented something of a watershed too. Before Kira, he was a jigsaw puzzling student at Wammy's House. During  Kira, he became a world-class detective, putting his life and liberty on the line in order to solve the case.

In that regard, the Death tarot card is a perfect representation for Kira here.

The Foolish C-Kira of Death Note's Aftermath World - a Cheap Copy Kira

In contrast to the game-changing transforming qualities of encountering Light Yagami's Kira, we have Near's condemnation of this new Kira.

The tarot card he chooses to represent this interloper is The Fool.

Numbered zero in the major arcana, The Fool is the signifier, or subject, of the whole story to follow.  The protagonist of the plot.  But that case journey undertaken by L, then Near, already had one of those in the form of Light Yagami's Kira.

Therefore Near identifies this new Kira not as Light's successor, but the instigator of a whole new tale.  It's not the quest he (nor L or Mello) was on. It's incitement to enter into another Fool's Journey; a separate quest entirely.

By 'identifies', I mean that Near quite literally pins this one down.  Spearing straight through the hidden cards indicating the rest of this Fool's story.

He uses a dart to do so - the prop of his own Foolish days.  As when Near first appeared in the Death Note manga as a contender for the L Code on the Kira case, his only 'toy' was a single dart.  The rest - tarot cards, transformers, puppets etc - all came later.

Near is stating symbolically, as well as verbally, that he's been here before. This is a different story, with all the lessons already learned from the first, therefore why should he be interested in it at all?
Near Death Note CKira idiot posing as Kira
Death Note One-Shot Special C-Kira The Fool in Tarot
The new Kira as a Fool setting out on a different journey from the first is reiterated in Near's conclusion, wherein he labels the killer 'some idiot'.

Fool, in one of its earliest connotations, was 'an idiot' - the folly of which still overhangs some modern usages of the term.

Thereon to label the imposter as C-Kira - a cheap copy of the original - and therefore nothing to do with Near at this stage, unless he chooses to accept the case as something new in its entirety.

The Other Tarot Cards on the Floor in Near's Tarot Musings

It may be of interest to contemplate the other cards spread out around Near's Death (Light Yagami) and Fool (C-Kira) cards.  They don't actually seem all that random, when placed in conjunction with Near's known history; and the card he surveyed whilst holding the L puppet aloft might be surmised. 

First there's Strength, which is pretty much what it says on the packet.  That's the sheer endurance and brute force intellect required to survive The Wammy House for Gifted and Talented Orphans.  Followed by The Priestess - the inspiration for entering the quest, or reason to be upon that great Fool's Journey - aka Roger telling Near and Mello that L was dead and Kira was reigning unchecked. 

Both are already on the floor by the time Near picks out a card to contemplate with L.  Later panels show that to be The Hermit - the isolated light in the darkness, which both Near and Mello would have represented at that time.  In short, Near's own instance of inheriting L's Fool's quest, and bringing himself up to speed in following the clues rippling out from L's investigation. 

This is followed by The Star, which could be summarized as 'hope', i.e. when Near sourced the means to fully integrate himself into the Kira case.  Then Death - Kira - and The Fool - C-Kira. 

It could be that Near is merely hunting through a tarot deck looking for the two that will illustrate his mind-set and direct his musing, discarding all others along the way.  Or it could be that he's spelling out the story thus far, in order to reach his conclusion.  Revisiting major markers on his own journey to this moment, so to recognize the reality of the situation in which he now finds himself.

Seeing The World for the cliff-edge it is, thus finding the courage to soar above it.

Toppling Near's Tarot World - Clearing The Decks with the Analytical Hermit?

Near tarot card tower falls
It's difficult to see which card acts as a catalyst for chaos; signifying such a lapse in Near's concentration that it begins to collapse the self-imposed prison barricade of his tarot card tower.

However, it seems significant that its with the fingers adorned with puppets of himself and Mello that Near swoops in to redeem its placement, whilst holding L in a watchful aside from his other hand.

Particularly since both panels give clues as to the nature of the card itself.

The first depicting it practically glowing with a halo of light against the darkness. The second affording a glimpse of what appears to be a staff, or torch held high and similarly glowing.  Both representing aspects of The Hermit then; the same card previously associated in Near's view with L.

The Hermit is a great card for Near now. An indicator of what is to come.

There are times when we have to step back, reflect and meditate upon our progress so far. This analytical retreat is necessary to shine a light upon those dark, overlooked, sometimes secret corners of the mind. Cleaning out the cobwebs and seeing things much more clearly than ever before, simply by stopping in order to see them.
Near building his tarot card tower in Death Note one-shot special
Death Note One Shot Near's Tarot tower falls

However, The Hermit also symbolizes a solitary time, when the thinker is at their most anti-social.

After all, you need space and silence in which to effectively contemplate the past and all its clues; to sift through the rubble of self and experience to find context for the present; to peer into those half-forgotten places of the mind in recollection of lived memory, enlivened by passing insights from retrospect and other people's points of view.

This is not a state in which to take on board the perspective of third parties, unless as recollection sparking previously unexamined aspects for meditation.

Thus the insertion of Mello and L, as finger-puppets causes some measure of chaos for Near in his tarot world. Despite them being figures from the past.

Unless, of course, Near purposefully degrades his tarot card tower with this introduction of Mello as a puppet - the chaos ran rife during his rivalry with his Wammy House peer in life too. Given that Near has expertly and precisely placed every other card in a vast and intricate tower to date, this seems likely.

For Near as The Hermit, Hal and Rester's continued presence is a distraction. Knocking down his own tarot tower serves to momentarily shut them up, and provides him with a reasonable excuse to send them away.   Albeit delivered in Near's own brusque, polite-but-rude manner.
Near's tarot tower in Death Note one shot special

This is Near's World, not for anyone to direct in either order nor chaos but himself

Death Note One-Shot Special: Near Claims The World in Tarot

It is the prerogative of the enlightened Fool, at the end of their Journey, with all their lessons learned, situations enacted and archetypal states fully realised to return to the beginning and see it again with its truths revealed.  The Wise Fool in possession of The World gets to soar beyond with a smile on their faces, enjoying a bird's eye view of all the components which make up reality. 

In mastery of their dominion, those claiming The World in tarot cards may even dictate its reality to others (though such elevated, returning Fools in symbolic reality generally feel no need to; displays of power play like that not only appear trifling but meaningless too in the face of other Fools and other realities). 

Thus Near finishes his contemplation of The World by opting out of it.  But not before he's seen pronouncing his conclusion through an overview of everything, as represented by a whole wall of tarot cards, each carrying their own component towards the whole picture.
Tarot Near You Abonimable Murderer from Death Note One-Shot Special

Near stepping outside The World to proclaim its truth from his lofty perspective
Viewed close up, Near seems to be symbolically revisiting a similar point on his own 'true' journey; contrasting this apparently easy conclusion with one which wasn't so simple to conclude.  Compare this frame with Near's previous derogation of Light Yagami's Kira.
Death Note Near 'Just a Murderer'
Death Note Near Crazy mass murderer
There are elements in the latter which recall the former - Near's finger twisting around a lock of hair; proxies in props for the real thing (puppet; tarot cards); his utter bluntness in calling the murders for what they were, stripping away all intrigue, justification and quasi-divine mystique - yet all is changed utterly.

Three years before, Near was smug, but also uncertain in his smugness. He peered down to speak, still thinking it through, before sneaking a look at Kira to see how his words had been received. Then felt the need to reiterate a point, this time a little more flowery, therefore losing some of its stark impact.

This time, Near's pronouncement is unfettered and direct. His gaze straight and sure. His confidence in the latter no doubt stemming from his living through the precedent set by the former.

In some ways, publicly giving clues to how the 'real' Kira was diminished by this public re-enactment, though only he and a select few will ever know that.

His world-view viewed through The World, as a wall of tarot cards.
Then we pull away for the long shot and know that Near truly has returned to the beginning and seen it for the first time. That he really has seen and accepted his truth in The World; that he is no mere successor to L, but L himself.  With the power to disdain lesser distractions that would teach him nothing new; to reject imprisonment inside an arena begun and delineated by some other Fool; to step away from The World, over the cliff top, and into new journeys bespoke to himself.

The Hermit's illumination, with Mello in hand (literally) to spark the courage for chaotic dismantlement, quickly escalated into Near knowing to pull down his own tarot card tower, and build the whole thing anew.  After all, Near now owned The World.
Death Note Near tarot L

Near gets to rebuild L anew from a world of tarot cards
Incidentally, this gets quite poignant when you realise whom Near is addressing here.  That speech bubble for his unseen partner in discussion is L.  It's the style used whenever L speaks through a monitor - over a television screen or computer - alongside a letter upon a white background. Throughout this Death Note One-Shot Special, that was Near himself speaking publicly as L.

Or put another way, this is Nate River conversing with Near right at the point when he mentally and emotionally accepts that he is L.  When he steps free of The World as delineated by L. Lawliet and embarks upon new worlds of his own discovery, and journeys of his own destiny.

From Sun to World: Near Steps Out of L's Shadow via Tarot Symbolism

A final world compares the images of Near from the beginning and end of this Death Note One-Shot Special. The front cover artwork depicts him still very much a successor to L, continuing the ways of his idol until completion of that particular journey.  Near's own voice is overtly silenced, subsumed beneath a finger-puppet of L. Himself acting entirely as L's proxy.

We travel through the story, witnessing Near's final leap from Wammy heir to the L Code to one actually in possession of it, mentally as well as physically.  There is no Lawliet by the final depiction of Near, in the manga's closing artwork.  Though Near now looks more like L than ever before, and sits confidentially beneath a shining tag proclaiming the same - backwards, forwards and in black and white.
Near cover of Death Note One-Shot Special
Near final artwork Death Note One-Shot Special
In terms of tarot, there are characteristics in the former which suggest that of The Sun tarot card.  Blazing far more keenly than The Hermit ever could, The Sun indicates those seeing their own being, environment and all anew.  They aren't necessarily illuminated, but ARE the illumination.  "Who are you?", asked The Fool of the Sun.  "I am you." The Sun replied.

It's the final stage before Judgement calls and, beyond that, The World.

There are fewer indicators that the last piece of artwork in Death Note's canon series depicts Near as archetype of The World.  Nor can we totally dismiss it.  There are no symbol creatures in each corner, but that central topmost circle could pass for a globe, and Near himself - L-esque as he appears - could arguably be perched with his back against a cliff-top; or at least the dark unknown.

Nevertheless it's a stretch, so we'll leave this here.

Next time we'll begin our journey through the Death Note major arcana proper, looking at the Fool tarot card
~ Tarot Mikami

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School Judgment: Gakkyu Hotei Manga Volumes Launched February 2016, Co-Created by Death Note Artist Takeshi Obata

15/1/2016

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Viz Media has announced a February 2nd 2016 publication date for the first volume in its collection of School Judgment: Gakkyu Hotei manga chapters.

The series has been running in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine since December 2014.  Penned by Nobuaki Enoki, it features artwork by Death Note creator Takeshi Obata.

School Judgment: Gakkyu Hotei's (improbable) storyline takes place within the walls of Tenbin Elementary School, where crimes, misdemeanours and quarrels occur on a regular basis - and their resolution by-passes all teachers and education authorities.

Instead, the country's top lawyers are drafted in to settle matters via frequently tense courtroom battles.  Said lawyers just happening to be fellow students at said secondary school.

Because that's the way this manga rumbles, and why not?

Chapter one - thus volume one - opens with a murder in the school, with Tenbin Elementary pupil Tento accused of being the killer.  Can his classmates get him off?  Wild, young attorney Abaku Inugami gives it his best shot.

February 2nd will see the launch of Takeshi Obata's School Judgment: Gakkyu Hotei in both paper and digital form.

It's already available for pre-order on Amazon US (along with the second volume too!), plus Amazon UK.

As well as the print version appearing in bookshops, the manga's first volume can be read via the Viz Media app, Kobo, Kindle, Nook, iBooks, comiXology and Google Play.

All are published under the Shonen Jump Imprint and the recommended retail price is currently $9.99 (US), $12.99 (CAN) or £6.99 (GB).
School Judgement: Gakkyu Hotei manga volume 1
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Why are Old Posts Appearing in the Death Note News Pinterest Stream?

15/1/2016

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Updates on Death Note News
You may be forgiven for wondering if you've entered the Twilight Zone, or some bug is running rampant through our site.  When the Death Note News summary is showing current articles alongside those dating months or even years back, then something is clearly going on.

It is.  Me.

When the Death Note News website updated its look, some of the more ancient articles wouldn't render.  The sparkling fresh design left them greyed out, so visitors couldn't read a word. Or else rearranged each element, so they made less sense than usual.  Often both.

Why this should happen for some articles (or blocks of months) and not others remains a mystery.  We'll be sure to pass it onto a Wammy kid, next time we see one still alive.

In the meantime, as part of our ongoing maintenance, our staff are revisiting all those old articles and fixing them.  Taking the time to also check that they're all tagged and categorized correctly. Moreover that every image has the associated text needful for them to be accessible for those using sight accessibility software to browse the web.

So far every article from October 2o14 to the end of June 2015 has thus been dusted off and cleaned. Each one completed then gets a pin on Pinterest, so those boards may be called completed by the finish of this endeavour.  Hence old articles appearing alongside the new on our streams.

Right now, every old Death Note News article should be readable, though we can't guarantee all elements in order.  If you spot one missed, or want to link to one as yet unfixed, then shout up and it'll be sorted out for you.

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