The panic in China over Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s Death Note appears to be spreading, as officials have begun confiscating notebooks inspired by the manga at a school near Wuhan.
Late last month, more than 187 Death Note notebooks were seized from toy and school-supply stores in Shenzhen after parents and teachers complained that students were writing their own “death notes.”
Now, ComiPress reports, the director of Wuhan’s Publication Bureau says a copy of one of the confiscated notebooks has been “sent to be processed and checked,” to determine whether it’s illegal.
According to the website, the uproar started in late March when a mother discovered one of the notebooks belonging to her son, an elementary-school student. It contained the names of teachers and classmates, and graphic descriptions of their deaths. In Death Note, an international phenomenon that’s inspired an anime series and two live-action movies, any person whose name is written in the notebook will die.
August 25th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
I just love China
February 5th, 2008 at 4:01 am
i think the people who are taking the notebooks away from the kids are nothing but a dumb idiot.
April 19th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
I think that it is rediculous to think that a fictatious death note should even be concidered being illegal. Nothing happens when names are written in it so there is no cause for alarm over a few pieces of paper!
May 5th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Ok, this is stupid. Death Note is my favorite serise in the whole world. I have been wanting to buy my own cosplay Death Note and maybe write a few things down just for fun, but I know that it will never come true. Let the kids have there fun. If their parents didnt want this to happen, why did they even let the kids read the books? And to even go as far as to see if it is illegal?! That is just boarder line insanity.
May 20th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
let the kids have fun.
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:20 pm
I can see were the parents are coming from as it says here “a mother discovered one of the notebooks belonging to her son, an elementary-school student. It contained the names of teachers and classmates, and GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF THEIR DEATHS”. This is the kind of thing that parents wouldn’t want there children to be thinking about even if it isn’t real. I’m a big fan of Death Note myself and it is correct that if parents don’t want there children to be influenced by Death Note then they should be not allowed to watch it saying that though children cant be monitored 24/7 as they will always find a way to watch it or read it. but still i want a Death note!
May 31st, 2009 at 7:29 pm
I think the parents should believe in ghosts and death gods too