Been a while since I posted an update. It neatly worked out that this was the last day of January and me just finishing reading through Death Note vol 1. I always find the start of Death Note to be really good, as it’s laying the foundation of the series and the rules of the death note. Also find revisting it to be interesting, like how Light is a bit more edgy than I remembered. The color edition is also very pretty. I think my only real issue is that the furigana is for ants and you can’t zoom in. Had to rely on the vocabulary list in the book club for one instance.
The difficulty is not that bad. Yeah, more advanced grammar overall and it likes to use longer compound words, but usually the dialogues and thought processes aren’t that hard to follow. Whenever it switches to the side of the police, I have a harder time figuring things out and have look up quite a bit. There’s also multiple ways they convey information, through notes, the newspaper or tv. It’s nice if you can grasp what it says, without having to read and decipher the whole thing. Probably the most frequent word is 心臓麻痺 and you’ll see it appear over and over again in this volume. Of course 死神 is another one. I took quite a few screenshots and I’ll share a few down below.
Volume 1
Here Light was still being cute.
Ryuk appears before Light
Here you can see some death note usage, Light has no idea how this dude’s name is written, so he writes it a bunch of times.
One of the famous lines in the series
The cat and mouse game starts, I like the contrast where Light uses 僕 while L uses 私.
The art here is done so well and it has this foreboding sense of danger.
The shinigami eyes.
Ryuk wants a GBA SP Silver Edition
Was able to read every day for the past month and read through all the things I wanted to read for this challenge. In the next month I’ll be working through my remaining pile of spy x family volumes, starting with volume 6 tomorrow. I’ll update my main post to be ready for the coming month as well.