Death Note
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Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Top-ranked student Yagami Light is disenchanted with the world around him. Through a series of events, he comes into possession of the ultimate power over life and death: a supernatural "death note" which can kill nearly anyone at his whim. As Light sets off on a crusade-cum-killing-spree, investigators from a police task force try to stop the mysterious deaths - including Light's own father, a senior policeman.
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Liar Game
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add recDespite vastly different premises, both these series nonetheless center on strategic mind-games requiring wit and audacity. The stories are intricatlely constructed, well paced, and full of twists, turns, second-guesses and betrayals as the characters scheme and plot. Although it is contextualized differently, the question of what constitutes right and wrong is an important tenet of both Liar Game and Death Note. The artwork is also similar, with Liar Game being a little more simplified to suit its more text-heavy presentation.
If you like battle of wits between two (or more) ppl trying to outsmart each other, if you like unbeatable geniuses who are always 2 step ahead of their oponents and pull incredible tricks out of their sleeves, lastly if you just like a good mystery manga - those titles are both for you. if you read one of them but haven't seen the other it's about time to correct that mistake.
Bloody Monday
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add recWhile Death Note is taking the route of supernatural, and Bloody Monday is going for realism, they are both excellent shounen mystery mangas. Both are based on countless plans, traps and betrayals, rather than plain brute fighting.
In both cases main hero is a genius, and have to win the battle of wits against another genius, working for the enemy.
Death Note and Bloody Monday, are very similar Mangas, despite the differences of the former being grounded in the supernatural, and the latter being more realistic based.
They both have the genius good guy vs. the genius bad guy, scenario. They're both full of psychological mind twists that really gets you thinking. And at the end of both stories, you're not really sure if you loved the “good guy" or the "bad guy" more. This is not to take into account, spies, and betrayals, the deaths, and the fun of watching two masterminds (or in Bloody Monday's case 3) outdo each other with wit. If you like one, I recommend the other.
Future Diary
Alt titles: Mirai Nikki
- Vol: 8+; Ch: 46+
- 2006 - ?
Yuki has isolated himself from his high school student life; even his cell phone reflects his detachment, since it only contains information about his surroundings. In his fantasies Yuki is chosen by his friend Deux Ex Machina to participate in a survival game of twelve people, each with a clairvoyant personal diary. The remaining survivor will become the new Lord of Time and Space. However, Yuki wakes from his fantasy to find that his dreams have become reality; his diary now has entries from the future about his surroundings, and he learns that his classmate Yuno is also participating. Even worse, Yuki finds an entry for his imminent Dead End. To stay alive he becomes Yuno's partner, but her diary only contains what will happen to her beloved Yuki. Yuno swears to protect Yuki and uphold her unwavering love for him; she will protect their bond, no matter who she has to get rid of.
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add recDeath Note and Mirai Nikki are similar in many ways. While Death Note tends to be a little more gentile then Mirai Nikki, both involve the basic "Boy finds super power- super power then results in a lot of bloody death" plot. If you like one- the other will be great.
Onani Master Kurosawa
- Vol: 4
Every day after school, the quiet and introverted student Kurosawa goes into the empty girls bathroom and "relieves himself". Besides this extremely odd ritual, Kurosawa also has a thirst for justice and a judgmental attitude towards his classmates. Upon seeing the bullying of an awkward girl in his class by two of the "popular" girls, he decides to bring justice to the bullies the only way he knows how. His plan for revenge goes "just as planned" until met by an unsuspected accomplice.
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add recWeird Combo? Defienietly. What does a 14 year old masturbation addict have to do with guy killing criminal via notebook? Well for starters Onani Master Kurosawa is (at least at the first half ) a very obvious parody of Death Note. Young Kurosawa just like our (anti)hero Light deals justice to all the annoying bullie girls by fantasising about raping them and ( a bit l8r in the series) by spreading the white juice over their clothes while they're not here.
That said you really shouldn't just treat Onani master as plain parody - it gets more meaningful than you could have anticipated from the title and description, I can even say that in terms of psychological realism it surpass Death Note by far.
Summing it up - both mangas are about a lone-wolf, who looks down on everyone around him and feels righteus enough to judge them (whether just in imagination or in harsh reality). Both deals with issues of punishing the crime that can't be punished by normal means.
Switch
Alt titles: [switch]
- Vol: 13+
- 2002 - ?
Kai Eto is the Narcotics Control Division's newest investigator and is quickly partnered together with cold, workaholic Hal Kurabayashi. Their job is to track down drug gangs and they must often work undercover in order to do so. While Hal efficiently locates and arrests his targets, Kai often gets too personally involved and acts based on his emotions rather than on common sense. However it seems that Kai is not all goodness and light, and when pushed to the edge he's taken over by a violent alter-ego which shows no mercy. With Kai and Hal's clashing personalities, opposing methods and secret pasts will these two rookies ever be able to cooperate, or will their inability to see eye to eye prevent them from ever truly working together?
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add recSwitch and Death Note are both capitvating detective/mystery stories (Death Note has more of a mystery theme where as Switch centers more around the police) with a dark side to them. To most of society Light seems like a normal, highschool genius, but behind the scenes he is actually Kira, with a goal to kill all criminals. To most people that know Kai Eto, he is a normal, happy-go-lucky kind of guy, but behind the scenes, he has a hostile alter ego that makes him nearly kill people. Both series though also have their little flecks of humor in them sprinkled nicely inside all the darkness and mystery going on. Light and Hal are also quite alike in the respect that they have no intrest in helping the criminals, only bringing them to justice. If you liked either one, you'd be doing yourself a huge favor by trying the other as well.
