DEATH NOTE : Black Edition I : Contains Volumes 1 & 2!

San Francisco, CA: VIZ Media LLC, 2010. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Takeshi Obata (Author Illustrator). Text/Faint creasing to chapter 15 of Volume 2, else As New. Illustrated black softcover/NF w/trace edge rubs. This Book, one of six, contains the initial Volumes 1 & 2 of the serialized manga smash hit Death Note by award wining, prolific story teller & artist Tsugumi Ohba (1969 -). Deftly translated & adapted to English, book retains the Japanese format to be read from right-to-left. A fantasy adventure in 400 unpaginated pages. Contains Volumes 1 and 2 of Death Note. Story of Light Yagami, an ace student with great prospects, but ever so bored --- that is until he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. It is a register, by name only, of humans slated to die. Light resolves to us the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. Question: will Light's noble goal succeed, or, will the Death Note, turn or use him into an instrument of gods he challenges? Variations & similarities between ancient Greek and ancient Japanese confrontation between gods and men? Ideas of gods eternal, ideas of men volital? That Light is gifted & smart, a factor? Read, digest, or ask Tsugumi Ohba for his conception of the universe, or, just relax and enjoy!