Death Note, Volume 4: Love (2003)

You're worrying too much, Dad.

Well, that took forever for me to finish, didn't it. In all honesty, for a bit there, I was concerned that this was going on the 'series i quit you' shelf. Mainly because I see something like this:



and all I can think about is the Shin Megami Tensei bondage angel by Kazuma Kaneko. (Sorry, couldn't find a good picture of it online, but if you've played the game you know the one I mean.) It's not a good association. But in spite of the occasional bouts of misogyny, the twists and turns of the plot itself continue to delight. Light is on display as his very horrible self in this volume, and I frankly appreciate the refusal to sugar coat. The lengths L will go to to find Kira are also front and center here, in case you had begun to think he was some fluffy bunny with his talk of his only friend and all. So, I continue on. Hopefully the reading slump will improve and no further bad memories of Japanese video games will surface to hold me back from finding out what horrors await Light's Dad. ( )

Two Kiras meet. Two very different shinigamis enter the picture. The reasoning that Light and L use to figure out each others next move is often over my head but I keep reading. Interesting ending. ( )

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Enter Misa. I remember for me it was annoyance at first sight. I guess especially now you really need to keep your head at the story, and have a certain amount of suspension of disbelieve, because with the introduction of multiple Kiras Light's plans become, ehm, very elaborate. ( )

A second hopelessly infatuated with the first, who then gets them both caught? Awesome. ( )

Its a great series, it just gets better and better with each book. Misa is the definition of a overly clingy girlfriend, not too bright ether; walking right up to L, how stupid can you be. ( )