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Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases
Yes! The Death Note novel has been translated and published here! (Along with volume 13: How to Read, which is a character guide and collection of notes and interviews and things.) The book is nicely produced: a slim hardback with a 3/4 jacket and a ribbon stitched into the spine to serve as a bookmark.
It tells the story of one of L's cases before the Kira case, this one of a serial killer in Los Angeles. It's also the story of the first time Naomi Misora, one of the minor Death Note characters, worked with L.
And we can all rest assured that it's got that hardcore charm peculiar to Death Note: a thoroughly tin ear for English names. I'd heard that a character in the book was named Backyard Bottomslash and yes: that's correct. Along with Believe Bridesmaid and Quarter Queen. And the street the first victim lives on is Insist Street. None of them have that je ne sais quoi that is "Quillsh Wammy," but they're good enough.
I feel so nostalgic for those days when I eagerly read the manga, awaiting the next insane English name.
You know it's Death Note when the first three victims are named Believe Bridesmaid, Quarter Queen, and Backyard Bottomslash, and the police can't find anything the three have in common. Also: there are traditional Japanese dolls called Wara Ningyo nailed to the walls at each crime scene, and the police decline to trace them because "they can be bought for a few dollars at any toystore." In LA.
Naomi has contact with L only through a telephone. He sends her to the first crime scene to look around. Imagine her surprise when a scruffy, black-haired man with an obsession with sugar also shows up and claims to be a detective hired by all three of the families to look into the murders. She sneaks off to call L and apprise him of this latest twist in the case, and when she tells him that this strange detective has shown up, L's first question is, "Is he cool?"
Yes, I laughed my ass off and scared the hell out of the cat.
L is also a fan of Akazukin Chacha.
ETA: Also! Something I did not expect! The narrator? Mello! He says in the beginning that it's notes on a case L told him about.
It tells the story of one of L's cases before the Kira case, this one of a serial killer in Los Angeles. It's also the story of the first time Naomi Misora, one of the minor Death Note characters, worked with L.
And we can all rest assured that it's got that hardcore charm peculiar to Death Note: a thoroughly tin ear for English names. I'd heard that a character in the book was named Backyard Bottomslash and yes: that's correct. Along with Believe Bridesmaid and Quarter Queen. And the street the first victim lives on is Insist Street. None of them have that je ne sais quoi that is "Quillsh Wammy," but they're good enough.
I feel so nostalgic for those days when I eagerly read the manga, awaiting the next insane English name.
You know it's Death Note when the first three victims are named Believe Bridesmaid, Quarter Queen, and Backyard Bottomslash, and the police can't find anything the three have in common. Also: there are traditional Japanese dolls called Wara Ningyo nailed to the walls at each crime scene, and the police decline to trace them because "they can be bought for a few dollars at any toystore." In LA.
Naomi has contact with L only through a telephone. He sends her to the first crime scene to look around. Imagine her surprise when a scruffy, black-haired man with an obsession with sugar also shows up and claims to be a detective hired by all three of the families to look into the murders. She sneaks off to call L and apprise him of this latest twist in the case, and when she tells him that this strange detective has shown up, L's first question is, "Is he cool?"
Yes, I laughed my ass off and scared the hell out of the cat.
L is also a fan of Akazukin Chacha.
ETA: Also! Something I did not expect! The narrator? Mello! He says in the beginning that it's notes on a case L told him about.
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The plot of this sounds very like that of Remote.
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I'm not familiar with Remote.
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Remote is about a genius detective whose super emo angsty tragic past resulted in such an emo breakdown that he now lives in the basement of his mansion. He's such a genius detective, though, that the police department just can't manage without him, so they give him a partner he communicates with by cell phone. They used to give him good detectives as partners, but he was so demanding that they all quit, so now they give him losers, since the partner only serves as his mouthpiece anyway. The latest in the string of partners is a sweet but dingbat meter maid who plans to quit to get married soon. It was good, but so fanservicey that I was forced to drop it out of self-defense(if the artist couldn't find an excuse for a butt or boob shot every couple pages, he'd just randomly make her clothes see-through.) The live action isn't quite as "smart," but is pretty good, and since fukada Kyoko is the "cute little sister" type instead of "sexpot," the fanservice was gone.
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I missed my freaky little Mello! He's not really in it, but hey!
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I think that's the whole point of the internet, myself...
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Sadly, I don't remember the names either... seriously.
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Mail Jeevas!
Eraldo Coil!
Raye Penber!
Mihael Keehl!
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OMG SPOILERS OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG DO NOT LOOK OMG OMG SPOILERS.
Nate River?
Lawliet-whatever-his-last-name-was?
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I'll have to go through Volume 13 and write down all the English names. Even people like some of the Mafia characters who weren't really named in the manga have names. XD
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when she tells him that this strange detective has shown up, L's first question is, "Is he cool?"
Oh, L, this is why I still love you. And Mello, too! I must order this immediately.
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Well, actually, I can kind of see why it was done that way - in order to get the background information on [SPOILER] in naturally, it was necessary to pull in a character who'd know it.
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Re: mistake
And the reply to your comment is: yes, I know, I read the damn book, after all, in case you hadn't noticed that. This post was quite clearly written when I was only partway through the book, before certain revelations were made, and I did not go back and fix it because IT'S A PLOT SPOILER - it's the plot spoiler, actually - and I choose not to ruin people's enjoyment of the book.