SNOWMELT FLOWS INTO ST

FIRST GRADERS, BRIGHTLY COLORED WITH THEIR SHINY LEATHER

HOLD HANDS AND STEP OUT TOWARD HOPE ON THE GREEN.

Bora in Tokyo.
Hobby: Collecting teacups
Day and night, develops manga plots
while holding knees on a chair.

Takeshi Obata was bora in 1969 in Niigata, and is the

artist of the wildly popular SHONEN JUMP title Hikaru
no Go, which won the 2003 Tezuka Shinsei “New Hope”
award and the Shogakukan Manga award. Obata is also
the artist of Arabian Majin Bokentan Lamp Lamp,
Ayatsuri Sakon, and Cyborg Jichan G.
 DEATH NOTE VOL 1
The SHONEN JUMP ADVANCED Manga Edition

STORY BY TSUGUMIOHBA
ART BY TAKESHI OBATA

Translation & Adaptation/Pookie Rolf

Consultant/Alexis Kirsch
Touch-up Art & Lettering/Gia Cam Luc
Design/Sean Lee
Editor/Pancha Diaz

Managing Editor/Frances E.Wall

Editorial Director/Elizabeth Kawasaki
VP & Editor in Chief/Yumi Hoashi
Sr. Director of Acquisitions/Rika Inouye
Sr. VP of Marketing/Liza Coppola
Exec. VP of Sales & Marketing/John Easum
Publisher/Hyoe Narita

DEATH NOTE © 2003 by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata

AU rights reserved. First published in Japan in 2003 by SHUEISHA Inc,
Tokyo. English translation rights in the United States of America and
Canada arranged by SHUEISHA Inc.
Some art has been modified from the original Japanese edition.
The stories, characters and incidents mentioned in this publication
are entirely fictional.

No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or

by any means without written permission from the copyright holders.

Published by VIZ Media, LLC

P.O.Box 77010
San Francisco, CA 94107

SHONEN JUMP ADVANCED Graphic Novel Edition

109876543
First printing, September 2005
Second printing, November 2005
Third printing, April 2006
SHONEN JUMP ADVANCED GRAPHIC NOVE]

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Bore&otn
Story by Tsugumi Ohba
Art by Takeshi Obata
 DEATH NOTE
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Boredom 5
Chapter 2 L 53
Chapter 3 Family 83
Chapter 4 Current 111
Chapter 5 Eyeballs 131
Chapter 6 Manipulation 151
Chapter 7 Target 175
 AGAIN.

WHOOPS/
HYUK

■ MAN/
 the human
world by a
Shinlgami

...sets off an
all-out battle
between two
chosen people.
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(hm?)

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 I'VE
KILLED
TWO
 WILL
REIGN
OVER
A NEW
WORLD.
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I ’
human whest niMt is written !w ikij hot^
Sha\! die. ^ ^

alt)iiS note, wil/ net take effect unless the writer

tUS the jersWs face in their wiin4 v/he-n writing
h;$/h&r a-8>m4. therefore, people sharing the,
saiw<. rmue, will-net Ic affecUi.
§<tp^mmzX-oxyfs.^
n>xizW^U^<DAmz-mzilmmbnm\
a If the caused death iS written within dUhsecondS
of writing the narsanlS ruine,tt. wili Kajif Lit.
4 MOM ic AMW^fit?40»Krt ic&H£ § < i, ^©* Q tc& 3,,

° If the cause of death is r\ot specif ;ed, the p<?r$o».

will iitnply Jit of a heart attack.

® After writing the cause ®f death, details afthe

death shouli he written in the next 6 minutes
find 4G seconds.
JEH £ § < £ M 1C6#40#, ftL ukoMU£SJ*f 5 bM.
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57
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prT
GOOD, ISfOver'S;, y WELL
DUDE! ML W I'LL. SEE
you^euys
YOU
r£I* Prilpr SEEM
RVUK. gBP-X/./V > TO BE
ENJOY¬
ING

feu
THIS,
. f Iff L.LIGHT.

Sfy L
BECAUSE
^Jl/W :

" / f HOMS,

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63
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THING
I DO'!
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0 YiatASKdl k<*ca»v\A th<t frQftrij ofjko huwiftn
w®r*U, ©Act it tenches the ,fr0uh4 of(Wiy<*s iwl)
tK.ft tiutwnn war14.

^i'He cwwftv'^ftKt note caw rcce^wixt t/it, iwu&e

a.wi voice ©fits ©vicinal owner, i.t. a. £04 of 4e.ath.

0 'the huvwiw wha uses this »\©tA c*n neither <£© te

Htavta a©r Hell.
c; ® y - b fc AWttllfc fettitc t>fj w-&n.
« wi
READ A.
q Special ^
Imdigation
Head¬
quarters
I Tr-r-rr'
q for
Criminal
Victim
Man
blunder
Caw X^E □— L_
rrrrrm-1
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rr
 DAD,
WELCOME
HOME.
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 Three
days
later.

AND JUST
LIKE THE
DAy BEFORE,
THEY WERE
ALL PRISON
INMATES... SO
WE'D KNOW
IMMEDIATELY
THEY DIED...
AND ALL 23
OF THEM...
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\\©v/^e if

3L
9 If the tirrje #f death is written within 40 seconds
after writing the- cause of death as a he»rt attach,
\\)t time of death can ke manipulated,
and tl^e time Can go into effect within 40 seconds
after* waiting the name.

-i\)4 human wl^a touches t^e fyot* ca.n

recognize tfye image and voiee of its original
owner, a^od of death, even if tV>e hu>vian '« rt0t
th« owner $f the note.
rx;-h izMo rcAmz\z.*<Dj - b rnWr-tt <t%.
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lJW4
‘ts*
Vtorfers
j<*
 .W©*eC *
\\©v/^e \i

IY
© $\)t penan in possession af iV)e J)p*$h (V©f£ is
possessed it £aJ af ieattj, i« original swntr,
until Jie.
fxy-bS&tjTWsIlt),
i^T*t>So
0 If a human uses tl>e n.ate, a g©<| $f itai\) usual\y
appears in front ©f h^/her within gg JajS after
he/sl)t uses th®- note.
a§wv - b tz39uikftizm-3

® ©f Westl), tV)t original ©wners of tfye.

)V©t£, <1® Hot rf«, in princfp\«r anything
w^ic^Vi|| he!|i or preventthe 4eaths in \\t note.
f^y-b©!p&5ih?fcajif?tt, ■€•©/- bT©^©iSv^

a A gad af death h*s naokl/gation to comp|et«|jr

explain hew ta use the nate or ru|es wV\ich wi||
app|,y to the human wh® owns it.

xxy-b ©jt'v^, JE-n&^oASiK^lV ass

ifeSrcMiV^Mtt&K
~fV il:
THERE ARE
TWO BIG
DIFFER¬
ENCES
BETWEEN
SHINIGAMt
AND
HUMANS
WHO HAVE
A DEATH
NOTE.
 ...CAN
see a
OMAN'S
NAME
AND
IFESPAN
OVER
YOUR
HEAD
WHEN
VE LOOK
4T you.
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3 Aygo<l of «leath can exteYd h'S Iifc. Wy putting

human naiwe$ on th<f h©te, hut Human,? cannot.
iwaxX y - I> \z AK©llt&» < *T S#©ilrSM«'i±« tf,

3 A, person can shorten his orherewn |ife ky

Mi mg the f'Qtt.
I ItT g#0iNir£ y - h- C J: o tMj6 5 Hitt? # 5.
° ‘tf\e human who becomes the owner of f h^
AofLcan, ih excVahge of h^Vf ©flv£/Her
regaining lift, get the eyeball of the goi of
ieath which will enable him/her ts £ee a
humatfS name ani remaining lifetime when
looking through them,
xx y - h ©ffiir# t * o /; Arati.I t
AH©'fe I -5 i ■?■ 0 A i© IM i i^© IA 5 ^E» 01® S
feSS^-CitSo
• A g©«l of ktath cannot We ki||cA even if siabbeJ
in h»S hsart with a knife or shot in the- heati
with a gun. h/owever, there art ways i© ki|| -a
gai. of death, which art not generally known
toth* goils of keath-
ifla/Ss ±j ? tIj l t fejaVit? i* % 41 vr %i-riire#* i-a
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y
THIS... f LorA ^rtV/
THIS
SAYS Do v^kocT 1 car\ !
...
you \\ V^\W«
r ^ y^rxov^ a\^ow~V ksO's
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fyfc conditions for deatV\ wi\( not W realized. tw\esi

\{ \% ^hysic4l|y pssS'ilik for-tliat ^umanor it is
'reasena.kly assumed to lie earriedl out l»y that h^Hwavi.

*■© aFI^ o t fe v < & v4$h © nm-etsi v & v *.

specific scope of tV\e condition -for deatk is hot

khowh to the gods of death, either. So, yoU must
examine, and find out.

^mhs^imz & -5 * 0ifH tt5t» fc t) 6& © T\

l»T'lEbB|6^iCbTV5<
THIS BUS HAS JUST
BEEN HIJACKED,
LADIES AND
GENTLEMEN!!
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$ne taken from -the- £)tK$H W®K. or- even a
fra^meniof-tKe paje, catvtams’tKe ful\ t~f(tcts ©Ml^e
i>att.

fx;-t©$Stta$ri&i?& o 3

instrutaenit© write wit\s tin |ie anything,

(fe.£. cosmetics, lleoil, eteHs (©ng is item write
directly oMtath^'f'o'tivan J remitus is legik/e. fetters.

Ml? fe J: tt. Jin? fe*t> Sc tt.

Even tfytf original owners of t))« IDEA^H Jtyott,

fois of ieatf^, ^0 notty’®*'' lloaut-t^e notV
5%* y -1 tco tt-c, t>& e. & tt ±©5E#t- fc§?uj* a.
These four-panel cartoons originally appeared in 'Weekly Stonen Jump' Vol. 4-5 (double issue), 200H.