Death Note: a-Kira

This was a completly pointless oneshot that served no real purpose whatsoever. You won't miss anything if you don't read it.

Death Note: Tokubetsu Yomikiri tries to play with the idea of what would happened if Death Note was discovered in this day and age. In the age of social media and security cameras on every step of the way.

We open up with Ryuk craving some apples and in order to eat some he needs to find someone who would feed him with them. This is even more stupid reason than "I was kinda bored so I dropped the Death Note into the human world". At least the latter one has some payoff later on while this one has none. Well, to get back to it; Ryuk then decides that he'll need someone smart and capable. Someone like Light Yagami. Enter Tanaka Minoru, a super-duper smart kpop Kira who's a borderline Gary Stu character. The only thing keeping him from being one is that his English sucks (he got a low score on an English test). Not only that, but he's also very unlikeable and I couldn't care less about him. Now, some might say that you can't make a reader care about a character with only a oneshot, but that's not true. There's plenty of oneshots who have a very compeling story with likeable characters that you care about and the whole oneshot is even a few pages shorter than this one.

So, our boy incounters Ryuk and in the next few panels he's kinda shocked but after he's completly ok with him even tho he knows nothing about him. He's acting like he already knows who Ryuk is and has no questions. Minoru just goes with the flow and the only thing he did to kinda push against it was when he decided to sell the Death Note. This is a different approach to what we are used to, but just because it's different it doesn't mean it's good. For something that's playing with the idea of DN in today's world they should've gone with the basic approach, aka with him using the DN while having to navigate throught this modern time. Instead of that, we got to see Auction Kings and Ryuk "dropshipping" the DN to the winner of the auction. (don't even get me started with who has won)

There's also a few Kira fanservice moments, same goes for Near who was the most useless character in this whole oneshot.