A theme park in Osaka will be taking day-trippers into the Death Note universe with L right alongside to ensure no-one gets themselves killed.

Because he was always so good at that...

Universal Jump Summer marks a collaboration between Weekly Shonen Jump and Universal Studios Japan.  Running throughout the summer months of 2016 at the latter's tourist attraction, the event will bring to life major characters from manga and anime.

That includes Death Note detective L, who'll be recruiting rookie investigators (that'll be you) to accompany him through a role-playing, puzzle-solving, live action game entitled Death Note: The Escape.  It will be built on the back of other Death Note themed Real Escape games, that have been running in cities around the world to mark the manga's 10th anniversary.

Additionally, the theme park will regularly host theatrical performances featuring another stalwart of the genre.  One Piece Premier Show 2016 tells a story especially written for the event.

Unfortunately, visitors to Universal Studios Japan will have to pay extra to enjoy either of these anime-based attractions.  However, their general admission price allows for free access to the third one - Dragon Ball Z: The Real 4-D.  Not too much further information there, other than our hero Goku will be fighting the evil Frieza.

Yeah, whatever.  Our lot will be with L, taking on the truly nefarious designs inherent in a locked door.  And if you don't think that's dangerous, then you seriously never read Another Note.  Hold on.  Ok, so our guide looks like L. Fine. But someone must have double-checked his jam eating propensity.

Haven't they?

Enjoy going beyond in the Universal Jump Summer 2016 Death Note Real Escape event.

The difficulty level on this Month of Kira crossword puzzle might be called cruel; bordering upon impossible.  Hence we're offering a cash prize of ten whole pounds.  That's probably a barrel full of dollars at today's inflation costs.  At the very least, it's the price of a carefully bought, shiny, new manga. Which isn't a prize to be written off lightly.

See what we did there?   Soon as you've stopped chuckling to yourself, get solving your Kira crossword clues.

You'll need to print off the grid, or copy it into GIMP or your own image manipulation software of choice. Photograph/screenshot the completed puzzle and send it to us via our Month of... content submission page - drop the file into the FileDrop or email us with a link to where it's lodged elsewhere on the world wide web.  Hell, send it by carrier pigeon if you must!  

You have until this time next month, and the publication of our Touta Matsuda crossword, as your deadline. Then we'll whisk all correct entries around a hat and pull out the overall winner.  Their tenner will wing its way to them forthwith via bank transfer or PayPal.

Remember to include your email for riches notification, should you be our lucky winner.  Everyone else, merely enjoy.

UPDATE:  Finally, here they are - the answers to the Death Note Kira crossword puzzle posted above.

A free Apple Death Note game sounds like something involving Shinigami Ryuk, but in this case it's the phone not the fruit.

I don't know who Pracha Chanlekla is, but he/she/it appears to be a serial creator of fun software for iPhones.

Amongst the recent crop of which is a freely downloadable Death Note iPhone app. (also compatible with current iPad and iPod models).

2048 Death Note Logic and Puzzle Game doesn't appear to have been officially sanctioned.  But since when has that ever stopped any of us enjoying  anything within the extended fandom created Death Note franchise?

There's quite a stark introduction by the developer of his Death Note game for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

Pracha Chanlekla describes the gameplay simply  as 'join the numbers and get to the 32768 tile'.  That's all. But sometimes simple is best.  After all, Mario merely runs around hitting golden coins and brick walls with his head, and Pac-Mac was fundamentally a blob on a grid, escaping other blobs, whilst snacking on more.

Is simple best here too?  The Apple device users amidst the Death Note News team got downloading the free Death Note app. to find out.

The consensus was that the game ran well enough, but it appeared a little light on content. It wasn't particularly well made (visually) and, as one colleague put it, the whole thing 'couldn't have taken more than an hour to cobble together'.

But then again, it's free!

This is little more than a heads up for the German Death Note fans out there. I'd like to tell you more, but frankly I have no German and Google Translate is garbling the information.

Hopefully someone will step in to tell us what we're looking at here!

Kylina has created a deck of Death Note playing cards. It appears to involve some kind of strategy with monsters, traps and ways to continue on to win. That's really all I could adequately discern.

Sorry Kylina!  (Though if you want to come and introduce your Death Note game yourself, you are more than welcome.)

Below in the comments, the lovely Nathaniel has clarified what this Death Note pack of gaming cards is all about:

Thank you, Nathaniel!

*giggle*  It's a few months old now, but I'm counting on the fact that there might be some Death Note fans who haven't seen it yet.

For those completely out of the loop, the gentleman Panda Noting his team-mates is Kim Yoon-jae, aka LongPanda - one of the top players in League of Legends. As for the background to the competitive gaming, and the context for the Panda Note joke, I'll refer you to DrKil on Reddit.  Enjoy!

Death Note gamers will now be able to pit their wits against a series of puzzles and ciphers, in a new Smartphone App game released by Shueisha.

The first part of Death Note Shinsekai e no Izanai (Death Note Invitation to a New World) launched on April 12th 2014 for devices running iOS or Android. With the second, third and fourth parts coming in staggered releases at the end of April, middle of May and the end of that month respectively.

The Death Note Smartphone App is currently only available in Japanese.

Players will find themselves inside a locked room, from which they need to escape. This involves following clues, deactivating/bypassing traps and solving puzzles in order to unlock the door.

It's been created as part of Death Note's 10th Anniversary celebrations. Anyone downloading it as we speak?

Now the dust appears to have finally settled on the Death Note bonanza, I thought it would be useful to have a quick check through all that was on offer.

Death Note's 10th Anniversary was celebrated, with much hype, on March 3rd 2014. The fandom received the following goodies and event notifications:

• Death Note Real Escape Game. This is what the much-vaunted website counted down towards. But it's only available in two Japanese cities.
• Online Mini-Story. Playing out over Facebook and on the website, this was just a promotional event for the above. It didn't affect the canon.
• Reissue of the Death Note Manga. 10th Anniversary editions of all seven volumes will be in the shops on March 18th 2014.
• Digital Death Note Manga. Two online (and downloadable) versions of the full story are available. One is in full colour from start to finish.
• Death Note Facebook page launched. This social networking portal is in Japanese. It keeps folk abreast of all new developments in the Death Note franchise.
• Smartphone App for Death Note fans. Play the Real Escape Game on the move.
• Death Note as a Musical Stageshow. Now Kira et all really will be all singing and dancing.

There was quite a lot there, particularly for fans in Death Note's home country Japan.  Yet I can't help concluding that there was a lot of fuss over really not very much at all.

What do you think?