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DEATH NOTE: Another Note. El caso del asesino en serie BB de Los Ángeles. by NISIOISIN

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maryshelleys's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

a fun murder mystery novel spinoff of one of my favorite animanga series of all time <3 when L said justice has power which means it has kindness kindness i could have cried
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sunscanid's review against another edition

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dark funny fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

never recovering. begging you to read this.
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doctorwodka's review against another edition

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funny mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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thepurplepeep's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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crowcrow's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

If you like Death Note you'll enjoy this too. The puzzles were puzzling for sure! Made my head spin a few times but it was enjoyable, fun. Even made me laugh a few times, surprisingly. I really felt drawn to all the characters, even the murderer. And I'm SUPER glad Naomi was the protagonist. Ever since I saw her in the manga I needed more :(
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regaliaofchaos's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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jaredolin's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

With her investigative abilities, Naomi should have been able to eventually figure out that L was L based on him referring to himself as Ryuzaki in the end. It seems like she has no clue who L is in the manga, so this may have led her to surviving Kira. She would’ve been able to get in touch with L quicker with the clues she’d gathered. Because that would’ve changed the the story of Death Note dramatically, I think L introducing himself as Ryuzaki to her at the end should’ve been left out.

However, this was such a great addition to the world of Death Note. I don’t remember seeing any mention of this case in the manga when I read it in 2015, but I noticed it when watching the anime just a month ago. This makes me wish Naomi stayed around longer in the show. She went down so unceremoniously by Kira that I didn’t want to believe it. I was waiting for her to come back from her walk to suicide for the remainder of the show and join L’s investigation team. It wouldn’t have worked because she’d figured out who Kira was, but let me dream!

Anyways, because I wanted more of Naomi’s character, I loved that she was the protagonist of this book. She was already vetted as a badass for discovering Kira in the manga, but this cements her badassery even more.

I also was thrown by the grotesque descriptions of the murders, but I thought it added a lot to this world and definitely fit the dark themes. It would’ve made the anime that much more gritty to include the gore described in this book.

And how it wrapped up was so beautiful! B was foolishly obsessed, but the breakdown of how everything went down with more context was so good. I only could guess that Rue R was Beyond Birthday as Naomi’s revelation started coming to her. I almost thought L was trying to get rid of her while she sat in room 1313. Shows you how far off I was.


The writing for the manga is some of the best I’ve ever experienced, and I’m happy to say that NISIO ISIN met my expectations of intricacy in his writing too.
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justcallmeemily's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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rinku's review against another edition

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dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

 I realized that I’m not the greatest Death Note fan anymore, but I wanted to read Another Note for completionist reasons, and I wanted to see more of L. I originally gave it three stars but looking back at this light novel now, it feels more like two stars since there was barely anything I liked about it. 

The plot is a simple murder mystery plot. Former FBI agent Naomi gets the mission to figure out who the murderer in the BB murder series is. Kinda unvoluntary, she gets the help of a guy called Ryuzaki. Those characters are all connected to the main series of Death Note. The mystery was okay, I guess. The pacing was not the greatest which can be seen in the fact that one third of the story is spent in one room where the characters just combine things which became boring quickly. Some of the conclusions they make are quite out of the blue as well. The only thing I really enjoyed about this light novel was the twist towards the end that
Ryuzaki was not L but Beyond. His motive was interesting as well, same goes for the fact that he has the eyes of a Shinigami
. But besides this, I was not really interested in the solution of the mystery. 

The writing style was okay, and the emotions of the characters were portrayed well. There were some things I found a bit weird though, for example how Naomi speaks her thoughts out loud so that the readers can hear them too. The book also sends some weird messages with sexism at some points and emphasizing a character looking through the underwear of a 13-year-old girl, urgh. 

Naomi was treated so badly in this novel. I liked her in the main series but she’s terrible here. She’s so judgmental and just rude towards L; at one point she says that she would rather kill herself than look like him, wtf. Talking about L, his characterization is okay. It was a bit annoying that every sentence had to emphasize what a genius he is, even if he’s just able to read Roman numbers. 

Fans of the Death Note series and edgy 13-year-olds that like creepypastas – I can say that; I was one of those once – will likely enjoy Another Note but it’s nothing for me anymore. 

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alyssa_s10's review against another edition

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dark mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I enjoyed the book and thought it was a good addition to the Death Note series. I enjoyed Mello being the narrator, and how the book goes more in depth on Naomi Misora. 
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The twist at the end had me in shock. 
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