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Death Note: How to Read

By Tsugumi Ohba
Series: Death Note How to Read 13
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Death Note: How to Read by Tsugumi Ohba serves as an encyclopaedic companion guide to the popular manga series. It offers detailed character profiles, plot analysis, and exclusive insights behind the creation of the series. Readers will also find interviews with the creators and a concise summary of the story's major events, enriching their understanding of the Death Note universe.
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A Death Note Encyclopedia

An encyclopedic guide to the Death Note manga series, including character bios, storyline summaries, interviews with creators Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, production notes and commentaries, and bonus manga pages.

The Ultimate Death Note Encyclopedia!

Here, in one authoritative volume: everything you need to know about Death Note, the best-selling manga series. Featuring complete character biographies, detailed storyline summaries, production notes, and behind-the-scenes commentaries.

Death Note 13: How to Read also includes exclusive interviews with creators Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata and a bonus manga chapter of never-before-translated material. Unless you own your very own death note, it doesn't get any better than this!

Series: Death Note How to Read 13

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  • Death Note: How to Read
    A Death Note Encyclopedia An encyclopedic guide to the Death Note manga series, including character bios, storyline summaries, interviews with creators Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, production notes and commentaries, and bonus manga pages. The Ultimate Death Note Encyclopedia! Here, in one authoritative volume: everything you need to know about Death Note, the best-selling manga series. Featuring complete character biographies,...
    By Tsugumi Ohba
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    $2700
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781421518886

Publisher: Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 July 2008

Country: United States

Imprint: Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc

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  • By Takeshi Obata

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 206.0mm

Weight: 413g

Pages: 280

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About the Author

Born in Tokyo, Tsugumi Ohba is the author of the hit series Death Note, Bakuman and Platinum End..

Takeshi Obata was born in 1969 in Niigata, Japan, and first achieved international recognition as the artist of the wildly popular Shonen Jump title Hikaru no Go, which won the 2003 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize: Shinsei “New Hope” Award and the 2000 Shogakukan Manga Award. He went on to illustrate the smash hit Death Note as well as the hugely successful manga Bakuman, All You Need Is Kill, and Platinum End.

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