Today's episode has Will, James and Steven talk about the pilot chapter to Death Note, this would have been the first one shot published, and although it may not have too much in common with the Light vs. L story it did pave the way for it. The boys also review the recent Simpsons' Tree House of Horror special that paid homage to Death Note as well as talk about the Death Note videogame spin offs and crossovers. Skip synopsis @ 3:55
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100: Death Note Pilot ⁓ The Taro Kagami Story
Story by Tsugumi Ohba
Art by Takeshi Obata
Whoever's name is written in this note shall die, that is the power of the Death Note, and so a bored Shinigami by the name of Ryuk, travels from the realm of death gods to the human realm. He leaves a Death Note for a human to find.
A 13-year-old Japanese schoolboy by the name of Taro Kagami comes upon the Death Note, Not understanding the English language very well he believes the Death Note to be a simple journal. When he uses it as a personal diary, he writes the names of those who bully him at school, the next day at school he receives news that the boys are dead from heart attacks. Taro suspects the Death Note is what killed them and Ryuk appears to Taro to explain its power to him. After Taro is questioned by the detectives Yamanaka and Takagi, he experiences nightmares over the boys he had killed.
Ryuk presents the death eraser to Taro, upon using it Taro can bring back life to those who have been killed by the Death Note, so long as their body remains intact. The next day Yamanaka and Takagi visits Taro's class and question the revived students.
The revived students and the two detectives are killed by a heart attack, The next day Taro watches TV and sees a discussion around the murders, the people on the TV die except for the one using an obvious pen name. Ryuk confirms Taro's suspicion that there is another Death Note user out there. Taro, believing the other user is his classmate Miura, goes to stop the killing spree and presents Miura with the Death Eraser. They then head to the police station to meet the revived detectives and show them Miura's Death Note and the death eraser before they destroy Miura's Death Note.
Seven years pass and Taro still has his Death Note, with Ryuk waiting to see how he will use it next.
Trivia:
- 'L: Change the World' was the sequel/spin-off to the Japanese 2006 movies. Viz media also has the English translation rights to the novelisation.
- L: File No. 15 was a book/promotional tie in with 'L: change the world'. And is the first time the chapters of Wammy's House/One Day (A Day in L's life) were publicised, most of the book features photographs of L as played by Kenichi Matsuyama. Whom played L in the 2006 movies.
- The first two Death Note Videogames made for the Nintendo DS were the Mafia type games Death Note: Kira Game, released on February 15, 2007 andDeath Note: Successors to L, which was released on July 12, 2007. The first game is based on the Yotsuba arc whilst the second game is based on the second part of the manga, featuring characters such as Mello and Near. For those who do not know, Mafia, also known as Werewolf, is a social deduction game, created by Dimitry Davidoff in 1986.
- A third, Escape room type game called 'L the Prologue to Death Note -Spiraling Trap' was released for the Nintendo DS in Japan on February 7, 2008
- Various videogame Death Note appearances and crossovers include the Shonen Jump fighting games, such as Jump Force and Identity V (a game that plays very much like Dead by Daylight)
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