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While manga have been known to spawn anime, novels, live-action movies, videogames and porn, Death Note has taken knockoffs to a whole new level by triggering international crimes and controversy.
Death Note is a live-action sci-fi movie about a notebook that kills anyone whose name is written inside it. In the past year, the original manga upon which the movie is based -- which was previously adapted as an anime, a novel and a two-part TV series -- has been linked to bullying cases in China and Virginia, and an unsolved murder in Belgium in which the killer claimed to be a character from the franchise.
"It's not the kind of movie that parents would encourage their kids to watch," says Shusuke Kaneko, Death Note 's director.
In addition to providing kids with endless entertainment, manga are often used in Japan as a light-hearted way to introduce serious topics like medical conditions, physics, sex education and civil law. But Death Note has turned Japan's most-popular print medium into an internationally controversial topic that has parents wondering whether they should prohibit their kids from reading manga entirely.
Death Note tells the story of Light Yagami, a 17-year-old son of a cop who gets good grades and comes from a well-respected family. Everything is fine until Light stumbles upon a notebook that belongs to a death god, and decides to use it to rid the world of evil by writing down the na ... |
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