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DEATH NOTE MANGA. ANIME. MOVIES A Critical Study BY JEREMY MARK ROBINSON Death Note (Desu Noto) by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata is one of the finest manga of recent times, and the TV animated adaptation is a truly remarkable piece of filmmaking, quite brilliant, ranking up there with the best. Death Note has become a significant franchise: it began with the very popular manga (30 million copies sold by Japanese publisher Shueisha). The success of Death Note in comic form led to an animated TV series, several live-action adaptations and spin-offs, plus movies. Death Note features a terrific magical gimmick: a book used by Gods of Death (Shinigami) which finds its way into the real world. If you write someone's name in it, and picture their face, you can kill them. Raito Yagami is the 17 year-old Japanese, high school kid who finds the Death Notebook by accident. That's how Death Note starts - but it rapidly becomes something else. Mangakas Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata take the Magical Book concept and run with it, adding in a battery of complications and obstacles, turning Death Note into an enjoyable and creepy combination of hi-tech thriller, political diatribe and high school melodrama. This is one of the few full-length critical studies on the Death Note franchise in English. The book includes chapters on the manga, including every part of the story, on the TV anime, including a detailed exploration of every episode, on the live-action movies, and sections on the other manga from Ohba and Obata, including Brakeman and Platinum End. Bibliography, filmographies and notes. Illustrated with images from the manga (and the artbooks), the TV animation, the movies and the musical, along with other comics by Ohba and Obata. www.crmoon.com

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JEREMY ROBINSON has published poetry, fiction, and studies of J.R.R. Tolkien, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Hardy, André Gide and D.H. Lawrence. Robinson has edited poetry books by Novalis, Ursula Le Guin, Friedrich Hölderlin, Francesco Petrarch, Dante Alighieri, Arseny Tarkovsky, and Rainer Maria Rilke. Books on film and animation include: The Akira Book - The Art of Katsuhiro Otomo - The Art of Masamune Shirow - The Ghost In the Shell Book - Fullmetal Alchemist - Cowboy Bebop: The Anime and Movie - The Cinema of Hayao Miyazaki - Hayao Miyazaki: Pocket Guide - Princess Mononoke: Pocket Movie Guide - Spirited Away: Pocket Movie Guide - Blade Runner and the Cinema of Philip K. Dick - Blade Runner: Pocket Movie Guide - The Cinema of Donald Cammell - Performance: Donald Cammell: Nic Roeg: Pocket Movie Guide - Pasolini: Il Cinema di Poesia/ The Cinema of Poetry - Salo: Pocket Movie Guide - The Trilogy of Life Movies: Pocket Movie Guide - The Gospel According To Matthew: Pocket Movie Guide - The Ecstatic Cinema of Tony Ching Siu-tung - Tsui Hark: The Dragon Master of Chinese Cinema - The Swordsman: Pocket Movie Guide - A Chinese Ghost Story: Pocket Movie Guide - Ken Russell: England's Great Visionary Film Director and Music Lover - Tommy: Ken Russell: The Who: Pocket Movie Guide - Women In Love: Ken Russell: D.H. Lawrence: Pocket Movie Guide - The Devils: Ken Russell: Pocket Movie Guide - Walerian Borowczyk: Cinema of Erotic Dreams - The Beast: Pocket Movie Guide - The Lord of the Rings Movies - The Fellowship of the Ring: Pocket Movie Guide - The Two Towers: Pocket Movie Guide - The Return of the King: Pocket Movie Guide - Jean-Luc Godard: The Passion of Cinema - The Sacred Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky - Andrei Tarkovsky: Pocket Guide.

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