Death Note Volume 3: Hard Run story by Tsugumi Ohba and art by Takeshi Obata
The cat-and-mouse game continues between L and Light. L's surveillance is discovered by Light and he's able to use it to his advantage since Ryuk the death god can find the cameras and bugs for him. As that does not pan out, L pulls back and tries another tactic. He goes to the same college entrance exams as Light and they both get admitted with perfect scores. L not only befriends Light, he confides in him, hoping to trick light into revealing if he is the killer Kira. Things get even more complicated when Light's dad, the chief of the investigation into Kira, has a heart attack. It's naturally to assume that the killer did it, but did he?
It's another exciting volume with some interesting twists. The battle of wits is interesting, exploring all sorts of possibilities. The ending provides an interesting new complication.
Recommended.
Death Note Volume 4: Love story by Tsugumi Ohba and art by Takeshi Obata
Turns out there's another Death Note and the human owner (who is imitating Kira) wants to meet the killer Kira. L is very suspicious of what's going on. He deduces almost immediately that there's a second Kira who is not behaving like the first. If the Kiras team up it would be a disaster from L's point of view. From Light's point of view, if the second Kira screws up, suspicion will fall on him and it would be a disaster.
The complications are interesting and bring an exciting new twist to the story. Unfortunately, they pull a "get out of jail free" card at the end that is not very convincing, like they didn't know where else to go with the plot twist and just straightened it out as if it never happened. Light winds up in a precarious situation, so maybe it was worth it after all.
Slightly recommended.
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