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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.