Death Note Another Note: Los Angeles BB Renzoku Satsujin Jiken

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Japanese: DEATH NOTE アナザーノートロサンゼルスBB連続殺人事件

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Type: Novel

Volumes: 1

Chapters: 7

Status: Finished

Published: Aug 1, 2006

Genre: Mystery

Serialization: None

Authors: Obata, Takeshi (Art), NISIO, ISIN (Story)

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NovelObata, Takeshi (Art), NISIO, ISIN (Story)

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A serial killer terrorizes the streets of Los Angeles. This brilliant psychopath commits seemingly perfect murders, brazenly challenging the police with cryptic riddles. The enigmatic and world-famous detective L has been hired to crack the case. However, to keep himself out of the public eye, L seeks out FBI agent Naomi Misora to carry out the investigation for him.

Misora agrees to aid L's endeavors, but soon finds herself caught up in an intense battle of wits between L and the culprit. Who is this mysterious killer, and why do they leave clues for the LAPD to decipher? Death Note Another Note: Los Angeles BB Renzoku Satsujin Jiken follows Misora on her journey to solve these mysteries and bring the indiscriminate murders to an end once and for all.

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Death Note Another Note: Los Angeles BB Renzoku Satsujin Jiken was published in English as Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases by VIZ Media on February 19, 2008. It was also released in Brazilian Portuguese by Editora JBC on July 4, 2011; and in Polish by J.P. Fantastica on May 18, 2018.

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Dec 25, 2025

tchkrvlist

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this story is distinctly death note without any death notes involved. Probably you already know what is going to happen in this story since there's a high chance that you have spoiled yourself of all the events and characters by watching youtubers but, let me to tell that reading this lightnovel was a completely different experience. I'll keep the spoilers as little as possible in this review.

So starting off, we have to ignore some inconsistent details like mello being the narrator, that is just a stylistic choice made by NISIOISIN. The direction that nisioisin taken with this is magnificent. the pacing it takes to move ... from one details to another is really interesting - the 1st chapter ends in a cliffhanger that you could never guess even in your wildest imaginations. As the story goes story on, it reveals more tension and quirky aspects of Beyond birthday. I can't help but feel there's something unique about him - he is unsettling, i cannot look at him as a human at all. Like how anyone would feel towards a 'skinwalker', a creature that decieves people for ulterior motives, that's what I felt towards BB. But that doesn't mean the story is always grim. The tone of the story coexists with humor quite well, which is suprising considering the contents. Nisioisin adds his typical referencing of other medias, 4th wall breaks, and literature-related lines as he always does and i strongly believe that, this spin off stands on its own two legs. the logic has some holes but since the story tries to be independent while also relying on the main story to some extent, it's only natural that there would be some holes left to be questioned. this doesn't include the murder hints or puzzles, which were wonderfully crafted, what I had meant were the supernatural elements present in the story. but this can be easily overlooked though, as the strength of this lightnovel is the tension surrounding Naomi Misora figuring out the meaning of all the horrendous acts committed by BB, to directly oppose L than to question, for example, the extent of shinigami's powers like one can do in the main story. Infact, those said powers doesn't interfere with the story's path at all. It just existed even before the story ever began and therefore, justified. Ofcourse, to give you the actual reason would amount to going into the spoilers territory but it really doesn't matter like it did in the main story. I only brought this up because I have a obligation to inform you, but this shouldn't hinder your experience. As fate fans often say to convoluted things in their series, 'dont worry about it'.

if you want to know if this is spin off novel is right for you to spend time reading, then ask yourself this: 'do i care about wammy's house and it's members?'. Because frankly put, it involves the past predecessors of L, challenging him to a duel of wits. It's a murder mystery, a splendid one at that, but much of the scenes doesn't have L directly involved. He operates through Naomi Misora, who's the main character here, and L takes on a more psychological role. Personally, it's fine by me since I'm one of those who liked every single character from the original death note, including Wammy's house orphans but i just wanted to let you know this to not mislead you into a experience that you didn't sign up for.

I've kept the spoilers to the bare minimum and avoided talking in detail about the hints, clues and the murders, as it takes away the fun if i do that in the review, but just know that it'll exceed your expectations from start to finish. I couldn't give it anything less than a 100/100 since I love the series thoroughly but it's more like a 8.5/10 in the eyes of a casual enjoyer of death note series.

P.S.
NISIOISIN have left out 2 more stories to be narrated by Mello:
(1) The Infamous Bio-Terror Case, solved in a detective war between the 3 greatest detectives - L, X, Z of Wammy's house.
(2) And the Winchester Mad Bombings case, solved by then 8 year old L when he first met Watari of the Wammy's house.

None of these stories had been published so we might never know if they ever will be. Only time will tell.

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Apr 13, 2018

TIIC123

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Death Note: Another Note was my ray of hope in my search for more official DN related works after I watched the anime and bought the entire manga. Out of curiosity, I just looked up the BB murder case for fanfictions, but I ended up finding this book instead, and I immediately bought it By the way, this book isn't manga, this is a novel written by Nisio Isin, of Monogatari fame, so my hopes were quite high. Again, did not disappoint.

STORY - 8
This is related to Death Note, so what else can you expect? This story isn't about Light, in fact, it has nothing ...

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Aug 31, 2021

geovannyboss

Mixed Feelings

Before starting the review of the novel... Spoiler Warning for those who haven't read the novel.

Hmmm where do I start? There are so many things to talk about.

First of all... Let's talk about Mello being the narrator. Unfortunately, him being the narrator did not make any sense nor made the narrating any different.

The story told in Another Note takes place in 2002, L dies in 2004. Mello was 15 when L died, and he was still in Wammy's House. So, when did L see Mello and tell him the story about Beyond Birthday and 2 others? It does not make sense.

In the book, Mello ... speaks as if the battle between L and Kira was over. Of course, he might be referring to L being dead. But he made it sound like he was writing all this after everything was over and everyone knew who Kira was. But he did not actually see Kira die. He died 2 days before Kira did. So, when actually did Mello write Another Note?

The novel introduces Rue Ryuzaki as a side character. Ryuzaki presents himself as a private detective. Naomi is a bit suspicious of him at first, because he has strange manners (sitting around hugging his legs, eating sweets all the time and crawling around on the floor), but L tells her to work together with him, so she does.

The thing is, the reader (as the he is meant to be) immediately assumes that Ryuzaki is L. This makes sense, because not only does L present himself as "Ryuzaki" in Death Note, but the way he acts is also strikingly similar.

Of course, the author wants the reader to think that Ryuzaki is L, but Ryuzaki is actually Beyond Birthday, the killer. That would have been a great twist, had it only been logical. But it wasn't. Another Note clearly states that B.B. doesn't know L personnaly. Which means he doesn't know anything about his habits or about what he looks like. So how come he guessed all of it? - doesn't make sense.

Also throughout the book Misora and Ryuzaki (I mean B) work together to solve the three crimes B has commited. Most of the time, Misora was led by Ryuzaki to find the answers. Even the smallest stuff, she needed Ryuzaki's help. I was frustrated because that's not the image she represented in the manga. She was originally portrayed as a very clever woman. Her needing Ryuzaki's help in every step she took did not make sense. (I must add that I actually liked the setup of the crimes. I only did not like the way they were solved.)

This book could have been good if only the author had at least tried to be logical. I usually overlook that kind of thing, but in this novel, I simply couldn't. Death Note: Another Note was starts promising but end with failure.

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