JUMP SQUARE to publish new DEATH NOTE work for the first time in 12 years

Good news “DEATH NOTE” fans, JUMP SQUARE will be releasing new work of “DEATH NOTE” for the first time in 12 years.

The work will be featured in “JUMP SQUARE” March issue to be released on February 4, 2020.

The cover will feature an illustration by Obata Takeshi.

“Death Note”, the series that has received critical acclaim worldwide, spawned a popular anime series, video games and live action films.

Needless to say, the manga series has been quite popular among fans worldwide and with the 13-volume manga series released back in 2003 and ending in October 2006. The manga series comes from Ohba Tsugumi (“Bakuman”) and is illustrated by Obata Takeshi  (“Blue Dragon”, “Hikaru no Go”). The series was first serialized in 108 chapters featured in Shueisha’s “Weekly Shonen Jump” and then published in tankobon format in May 2004 through October in 12 volumes.

“Death Note” focused on the character of a very smart high school student named Light Yagami. Bored with his life, he comes across the “Death Note” that has special instructions that if one was to write their names on the Death Note, the person would die. They would die of a heart attack if there were no instructions on how the person is to die. Or die the way the person possessing the Death Note wrote down.

The Death Note is from a Shinigami (death god) named Ryuk who seems to be bored in his own world and thus starts to enjoy how a person like Light starts to use the Death Note.

For Light (who goes by the name Kira), starts out using the Death Note by writing the names of criminals. He starts to win supporters due to his ideology of creating a new world without these criminals. But with so many deaths occurring, the police and the International community begin to fear this serial killer. And along the way, Light is suspected by the police as a person of interest (a person who could be “Kira”) and then Light starts to use his Death Note on those who are onto him.

Because the case has become so high profile and deaths are mounting up, thus a mysterious detective named L is assigned to the case.

Kira continues to use the Death Note in killing hardcore criminals and to create a new utopia but despite what he is thinking is good (and many people supporting him for what he does), his father Soichiro is the police detective superintendent overlooking the case and the NPA Head of Special Investigations. For L, he suspects that someone close to the NPA is involved.

But Light Yagami (Kira) is starting to feel paranoid when the FBI arrive to Japan to also do their investigation on Kira. One of the agents, FBI agent Ray Pember is on to him and wanting to make sure that no one in the FBI discovers that he is Kira and wanting to make sure that Pember doesn’t get his information to his father, Light Yagami (Kira) knows what he has to do.

In order to make sure his plans of a new Utopia goes through, despite using the Death Note to kill criminals, now Kira must kill those who will interfere with his plans.

The series becomes a compelling storyline of will L find a way to catch Light Yagami (Kira) or will Light Yagami (Kira) kill L first? Two geniuses trying to outwit the other in a thrilling storyline of who will be the last man standing at the end.