Death Note: Confluence (Death Note, #2)
by Tsugumi Ohba; Takeshi Obata (Illustrator)
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Reading Grade: Young
Adult (Japanese manga)
Publishing Type:
traditional
Publication Date:
November 1, 2005
Source: Amazon store
Age Rating: 14+
Light Yagami is
an ace student with great prospects—and he's bored out of his mind.
But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped
by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in
the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the
Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin
dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to
track down the killer.
Light thinks he's
put an end to his troubles with the FBI—by using the Death Note to
kill off the FBI agents working the case in Japan! But one of the
agents has a fiancee who used to work in the Bureau, and now she's
uncovered information that could lead to Light's capture. To make
matters worse, L has emerged from the shadows to work directly with
the task force headed by Light's father. With people pursuing him
from every direction, will Light get caught in the conflux?
My Review
Because this is a
serialized story, it's hard not to write some spoilers of what
already happened in the previous volume. If you haven't read Volume1, I'd suggest you NOT read this review. You don't want to get
spoiled if you plan on enjoying it.
*WARNING: SPOILERS
AHEAD*
Light has taken down
the FBI agents with the Death Note because, at this point, he's
starting to learn how to manipulate the people whose names he's
written in the notebook before they die. Their actions can be
controlled if he writes what they will do leading up to their deaths,
so long as it's not humanly impossible. Light is so painstakingly
careful about his actions, and thinks of just about every possibility
in order to keep himself free of suspicion, it's like he's got OCD.
But, he encounters
women's intuition in the form of Raye Penber's fiancee. Naomi Misora
figures out Kira's involvement in Raye's death. She used to work for
the American FBI, and had previously worked with L, so when she tells
Light all this, it only makes him determined to eliminate her, since
she poses his biggest threat to being caught, yet.
Meanwhile, L finally
decides to show his face to the few Japanese police who are willing
to risk their lives to catch Kira. L is a very socially awkward and
eccentric fella, but you love him because he's so cute. Creepy for
sure, but adorable, nonetheless. He's beginning to catch on to Kira
killing Raye and the FBI agents, although, slower than Naomi. He
decides Kira has to be one of the people Raye investigated before the
bus-jacking incident, and that narrows it down to two families. One
of them is Light's family.
Light, being the
ridiculously perceptive kid that he is, notices right away that
someone entered his bedroom while at school one day. The volume ends
with him concocting a scheme to find all the surveillance cameras
around his bedroom. So, we are left wondering how he's going to kill
criminals in his home knowing he's being watched by the police, and
not be able to do anything about it. It'll be interesting, indeed…
If
you still haven't caught on to Death
Note, do yourself a
favor and get this manga right away. It is probably the BEST manga in
existence.
