{"id":923,"date":"2017-02-18T11:54:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T16:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/?p=923"},"modified":"2017-02-18T11:54:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T16:54:22","slug":"otaku-corner-death-note-vol-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/2017\/02\/18\/otaku-corner-death-note-vol-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Otaku Corner: Death Note Vol. 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Death Note wrapping up in its usual suspense-filled way<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Brandon-2012-cutout\"<\/a>Scholarly. Resourceful. If I had to describe Light Yagami, I would use these words to characterize him as well as to say that I could see him becoming a future minister of justice for Japan. However, since Mr. Yagami (aka Kira) has possession of the Death Note, I could only think of two words to describe him: tyrant and murderer. In the ninth volume of \u201cDeath Note,\u201d Light\u2019s actions fit my latter descriptions of him as his actions continue to have devastating reactions on the United States and Japan.
\nAt the end of Volume 8, Light\u2019s plan to use U.S. Special Forces to attack Mello\u2019s hideout failed greatly because of the involvement of the shinigami Sidoh, the use of the ransom Death Note and use of the Shinigami Eyes by one of Mello\u2019s henchmen. As a result, the Special Forces members along with current U.S. president David Hoope were killed. Reeling from Mello\u2019s brilliant attack, Light devises an attack plan using Misa\u2019s Death Note and having Soichiro make a deal with Ryuk for the Shinigami Eyes. Light\u2019s plan worked successfully in eliminating Mello\u2019s henchmen in addition to recovering the Death Note and finding out Mello\u2019s true identity, but Soichiro was killed by one of Mello\u2019s men, who faked his own death.
\nDuring these events, the SPK discovers that they are being disbanded amid a declaration\"Death<\/a> of surrender to Kira by acting U.S. President George Sairas. This forces Light to go through a combined barrage of attacks by\u00a0 Near and Mello in order to disrupt and expose Kira within the Japanese task force. During this three-way battle, Light\u2019s, Mello\u2019s and Near\u2019s tactics result in\u00a0 decisive wins for each man. In the final chapter, Light ultimately comes out on top by using Demegawa and Sakura TV to reach Kira supporters and rally them to siege the SPK headquarters while taunting Near to escape while he is able.
\nLike all of the other Death Note volumes I\u2019ve read, Volume 9 still keeps the intriguing mix of supernatural horror and mystery. However, this volume had me thinking that Ohba-san and Obata-san wrote and drew this volume while watching a marathon of the show \u201c24.\u201d While reading, I noticed that while Light has his keen ability to take on many challenges, he also knows that he has Near and Mello standing in his way. I also like how Ohba-san and Obata-san set up Mello and Near as cooperative rivals. Mello tells Near that he is not a tool to capture Kira and threatens to shoot him, but they exchange clues regarding the Death Note when Near gives Mello the only picture available of him. As the Death Note saga begins to close, Light is so close to his dream, yet so far with Near and Mello on his heels.
\nCredit again goes to Viz Media as they continue to do an excellent job of translation and adaptation, this time assigning the tasks to Tesuichiro Miyaki. Miyaki continues the challenging-yet-successful task of presenting Death Note to the English audience.
\nI\u2019m getting close to the end of reviewing the Death Note manga series. With only three volumes left, I\u2019m kind of torn between rooting for Light\u2019s noble cause to eradicate evil and L\u2019s heirs continuing his legacy of genius. However, after all that Light has done to criminals and non-criminals alike, I can only take one side: Team Ryuzaki.<\/p>\n

Brandon Beatty is editor at large of Gaming Insurrection. He can be reached by email at brandonb@gaminginsurrection.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Death Note wrapping up in its usual suspense-filled way Scholarly. Resourceful. If I had to describe Light Yagami, I would use these words to characterize him as well as to say that I could see him becoming a future minister … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[254,73,37,119,120,25,245,258,103],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-otaku-corner","tag-1q2017","tag-brandon-beatty","tag-death-note","tag-l","tag-light","tag-manga","tag-mello","tag-near","tag-otaku-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}