The books look elegant and sleek. The slightly larger format is great, and so is the paper quality. Tsugumi Ohba is the pseudonym of a Japanese writer. He is best known for Bakuman and the current title. To gain the power he needs to save his friend from a cursed spirit, Yuji Itadori swallows a piece of a demon, only to find himself caught in the midst of a horrific war of the supernatural!

In this first volume of Death Note, the award-winning shounen manga series, a boy holds Japan under his control after finding a book that lets him kill anyone he wants to. Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects–and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. Will Light's noble goal succeed, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?