![]() ![]() ![]() The genre is referred to as henkaku tantei sh ōsetsu (irregular detective fiction). ![]() In the 1920s, in the nascent years of Japanese science fiction and detective writing, a genre emerged that combined the influence of Western detective and mystery literature with a distinctly Japanese stylistic approach and a culturally-specific focus on political and social concerns. Both an anime television series and a series of live action films based on the series have been produced in Japan as well as “guide books”, light novels and a series of Nintendo DS games that further explore the mechanics of the eponymous death note/s. Between 20 the tankōbon were translated into English and published in North America by VIZ Media‘s Shonen Jump Advance imprint. It was serialized in Weekly shonon jump in Japan from late 2003 to mid 2006 and subsequently complied into a run of 12 tankōbon. Death Note shares many elements with a unique genre of Japanese popular literature established in the early 1920s – irregular detective fiction.ĭeath Note ( Desu nōto) is a 12 volume manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. It seems counterintuitive that an audience that appreciates the detective genre’s analytical rigor could be reconciled with fantastic or absurd narrative elements but the popularity of the fantasist detective manga Death Note is not unprecedented. Happy New Year and a very belated post… Hopefully I can provide more musing (and not a dire example of procrastination) in 2010. ![]()
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