Death Note, one of Japan’s most unique and exciting anime series, has finally released its Volume 8 DVD as of December 30th. Episodes 29 through 32 are all present on this DVD, along with some special features that even the biggest Death Note fans can enjoy.
One of the interesting things about Death Note is that the soul has been adapted into three different movies over the years. However, two of those films have yet to be released in North America, and the only one that was commercially released was not widely available in theaters.
Story Line
What would you do if you found a book its name? A young man named Yagami had that dream come true. After a bored shinigami (Japanese god of death) named Ryuk drops the Death Note out of the shinigami realm and into the human world, Yagami finds the book and his entire life is changed forever.
Light, who is the son of God the capital and always the capital, wanted to cleanse the world and destroy it from all evil. After discovering the Death Note and discovering its powers, Kira takes on the name and begins killing criminals.
He is only going to capture the whole state of affairs, Lumen has to see the characters either online or in the news, and then Write the characters name in the book . In addition to the writings which he names persons, he can also give them the cause of death, or control them only if it is physically possible to do so.
After several murders, a mysterious private detective who calls himself L challenges Lumen. As it turns out, L is responsible for solving quite a few of Japan’s toughest problems. L begins to seize Japanese police forces for that country and tries to search for Kira.
Needless to say, Death Note has some of the most amazing mechanics of any media format. Soul itself has also been called the Ultimate Game of Cat and Mouse by many authors. Watching the light and L trying to outrun each other is somewhat like riding a roller coaster all the way to the end.
These particular stories (29-32) focus on two new revelations from other governments that begin to suspect the Light of Yagami. In the first series of viewers learn that Light will not take anything, even kill the innocent, how will he take such a cruel enemy?
DVD Features
Death Note Volume 8’s special features aren’t bad at all considering the lack of special features on most anime DVDs. This DVD in particular has both English and Japanese very detailed options, English and Japanese voice over options, production art, audio commentary, and behind the scenes video from the English voice actors.
Conclusion
Overall, Death Note Volume 8 may be the best anime DVD to come out during the 2008 holiday season. Its special features will keep fans of Hardcore Death Note happy, and perhaps hopefully drawn in some new ones. This DVD gets four out of five!
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Final Score
4/5 – Above Average – (Perfect 5. Horrible 1).
