Just In Case

Es algo que no puedo describir con palabras…

The Miraculous Notebook by Shigeru Mizuki

I was curious about this story being the inspiration for Death Note but wasn’t able to find it in full online anywhere. Apparently Ohba stated he was not aware of this story (first published in 1973 in Comic Mystery Magazine) and that Death Note had no particular inspiration, although I can’t find this interview for reference anywhere.

I also couldn’t find the comic in full online anywhere either, including the one translation it had into Chinese.

I did find a printed volume of Mizuki’s short stories on Yahoo Shopping, and have just received my copy.

I have a beginners grasp at Japanese at best, so I do not feel confident enough to try and translate this for anyone besides myself.

The book is THICC and the page margins are small so I had some trouble trying to scan this. The pages have some shading where the spine is. The link is below for anyone else who is curious.

Link to PDF

Good evening~

normal vs not normal: pain edition

normal: your knees/hips starting to twinge after climbing a big set of stairs

not normal: climbing stairs is hard for you, and you start to feel pain after a couple steps

normal: you wake up feeling pain after doing a lot of exercise the day before

not normal: you wake up feeling pain regardless of your activities the day before

normal: you are usually a zero on the pain scale

not normal: you cannot imagine what a pain scale zero would feel like

normal: when you experience pain, there is a direct reason for it, and it is able to be fixed with over-the-counter drugs (such as paracetamol)

not normal: you can’t figure out why you’re in pain, and taking over-the-counter painkillers doesn’t always work to fix it

normal: you do not spend most of your time in pain

not normal: you’ve spent most of your time in pain for over three months

if you experience pain regularly and for seemingly no reason, go to the doctor! you are not supposed to be in pain, and you deserve to find out what’s going on with your body!

“You know the greatest loves of all time are over now. In my defense, I have none For digging up the grave another time But it would’ve been fun If you would’ve been the one”

the 1//Taylor Swift

(art credit to @kyoshichart for the fanart)

I live because i can't die

Kira

Over the course of Death Note, there is kind of a sense that Light's strategising is hampered by him simply forgetting that

there are ways to win against someone or throw off the investigators that do not involve murdering them and

there are ways to kill someone without using magical notebooks.

it's funny like dude just likes using his little notebook so much

Good morning ~