Death Note: Another Note
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| Death Note: Another Note | |
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Written by
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Publisher
| Shueisha (Japanese)
Viz Media (America) |
Publishing date
| August 1, 2006 (Japan)
February 19, 2008 (America) |
Death Note: Another Note serves as a prequel to the manga series, detailing the story of L's first encounter with Naomi Misora during the Los Angeles "BB Serial Murder Case" mentioned in volume 2 of the manga.
Plot
The story is about the killer Beyond Birthday loose in Los Angeles, and super-sleuth L trying to solve the case. Along with Naomi, a former FBI agent, he helps the LA police solve the grisly crimes.
Beside Naomi's character, the novel focuses on how L works. Insight was given into Watari's orphanage (named "Wammy's House") and how the whole system of geniuses such as L, Mello, and Near were put to work.
The novel is narrated by Mello. He starts out by trying to write about the case like he was writing a true crime report; very straight forward and speculative. A short time through, his tone changes to that of a novelist as he writes down what the characters are thinking or feeling. Only occasionally does he catch himself and revert back to the other style. Mello even interrupts the story at various points when he has a problem with how he worded a certain sentence or how he had a character speak.
Organization of Events
This is a chart that organizes all of the events in Death Note: Another Note Los Angeles BB Murder Cases.
Remember, this was a challenge against L from Beyond Birthday. Only three victims and Naomi Misora were caught in the middle. B was presenting The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases to L as a case that could never be solved.
The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases:
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Event |
Letter to LAPD |
1st Murder |
2nd Murder |
3rd Murder |
4th Murder (Suicide Attempt) |
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Date of Event |
July 22 |
July 31 |
August 4 |
August 13 |
August 22 |
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Name of Victim |
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Believe Bridesmaid |
Quarter Queen |
Backyard Bottomslash |
Beyond Birthday |
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Age of Victim |
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44 |
13 |
26 |
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Meaning of Dates (Kanji) (These are the only dates in a month that work) |
22 is equal to 二十二 , or 2+2, which equals 4, which is also 1+3, which equals B. |
.31 is equal to 3+1, or 三十一, which when reversed is 一十三, which looks like B. |
4 is 2+2, or 二十二 , which is 22. 4 is also 1+3, which is B. |
13 is equal to 1+3, which is equal to 一十三, which looks like B. |
22 is equal to 二十二 , or 2+2, which equals 4, which is also 1+3 which equals B. |
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Clues to next murder/ What they meant |
Crossword puzzle sent to LAPD = Address --- 221 Insist St., Hollywood |
Roman numerals on body convert to #’s--13 books in series--4 & 9 missing--1 book with total # pages--Page #+1st letter=RN = Name --- Quarter Queen |
Added glasses to victim—victim never owned glasses—had contacts taken out = Street Name --- Glass Station |
Victim turned into human clock—Gave time = Condominium construction approval number/ Possible time of Death --- 061550 |
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Why Place or Victim was Chosen (Excluding the fact that they were destined to die that day and time anyway) |
The LAPD was chosen because the murderer wanted to show that he was smarter than them and say that he was above them. |
The murderer chose this place because the occupants initials were BB, he was an adult, and the murderer needed a starting place, and this was the most reasonable place. This victim was part of a cover-up of the 4th murder. Why he died this way is partly experimental and partly motivated by curiosity of the murderer. |
The murderer chose Quarter Queen because her initials were QQ, she was a child, and she wore contacts, not glasses, so the murderer could take the contacts and leave glasses leading to the next murder would occur. She died to prevent the possibility of there being someone else named Quarter Queen. She was the only Quarter Queen in Los Angeles. This victim was part of a cover-up of the 4th murder. Why he died this way is partly experimental and partly motivated by curiosity of the murderer. |
The murderer chose this victim because her initials were BB, she was an adult, and he needed to make her into a clock to show the time which was converted into a Condominium construction number of where the next murder would occur. This victim was part of a cover-up of the 4th murder. Why he died this way is partly experimental and partly motivated by curiosity of the murderer. |
The murderer chose this place because the condominium complex had 13 floors, 1 resident lived on the 13th floor, with the initials BB, and one room number was 1313 (BB), the other on the 4th floor, room 404 (BB). The reason he died from burning to death is to burn away his identity (his face and fingerprints). He wanted to be identified as BB, but not B from Wammy’s house. The reason all the rooms were locked was to make this suicide look like a murder along with the rest. |
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Details of Events (All events had everything in room clean of fingerprints. Room locked from inside by a thumb turn lock. Needle and Thread sequence used to lock rooms from outside using the wara ningyo’s nails to help) |
No LAPD officer could figure out the puzzle so they simply threw it away—L obtained a copy from a reliable source. |
Body found in bedroom on bed strangled to death with knife markings on his chest—shirt was removed to carve, then replaced only leaving drops of blood on it. |
Body found in middle of apartment floor, front of head crushed in by some blunt object, eyes crushed in, contacts removed/ glasses added. |
Body found spread out in middle of room, left arm and right leg chopped off at root, Cause of death-loss of blood, massive hemorrhaging, Strangulation, beating, and stabbing. Stuffed animals surrounding her in order:2,5,9,12/also including wara ningyo makes each side of room part of clock. |
Body found in corner of 2nd bedroom of condominium 404 on 4th floor, burned to death, gasoline had been poured on him, the sprinkler in the room had been tampered with and was not working along with the alarm. |
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Place of Event |
The LAPD Station |
In Bedroom of small house on Hollywood’s Insist Street |
Downtown in an apartment on Third Avenue |
West L.A. in a townhouse near the Metrorail Glass Station |
Pasadena in the valley, in a massive condominium number 404 on level 4 |
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Days between each Event |
9- |
-9 4- |
-4 9- |
-9 9- |
-9 |
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Pattern of Days between Events |
9+ |
4+ |
9+ |
9= |
31 |
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Wara Ningyo |
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4 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
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Way Body was Found (In Accordance to Letter and Age) |
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Facing Up (BB) |
Facing Down (qq) |
Facing Up (BB) |
Facing Up (BB) |
Trivia
- Viz released the novel in English on February 19, 2008, however many retailers began selling the books as early as February 7, 2008.
- While never actually appearing in this book, L mentioned and used both Wedy and Aiber to guard Naomi in the chapter "Failure".
- In 2010 a petition was made to get Madhouse (the makers of the Death Note Anime) to make an Anime film based on the Death Note: Another note novel.