Comments on: Death Note Rip-off Becoming Popular With South Korean Schoolchildren

By: Death Note LAWL around the world « Raison d’etre

Death Note LAWL around the world « Raison d’etre — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:11:37 +0000

[...] Death Note Rip-off Becoming Popular With South Korean Schoolchildren [...]

By: Chinese Authorities Crack Down On ‘Death Note’ » Japan Probe

Chinese Authorities Crack Down On ‘Death Note’ » Japan Probe — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:05:36 +0000

[...] That popular student game sounds very similar to what has been occurring in South Korea following the popularity of Death Note there. Is Death Note corrupting the minds of children and turning them into wannabe shinigami? [...]

By: felix

felix — Tue, 22 May 2007 03:38:57 +0000

hehehehe kuroi desu noto, aka desu noto hahahaha such crazy, insidious ideas these =P

By: Asuka

Asuka — Mon, 14 May 2007 03:04:04 +0000

It’s already becoming a problem with the voodoo dolls in China. I read a report where little kids would buy those dolls and stick needles in them, all the while imagining them to represent the people they hate. I can see how this phenomenon can be psychologically healing for some, but damaging for others. Worst of all, it may prevent kids from getting professional help but instead breed hatred within their fragile hearts.

By: desunotu

desunotu — Sun, 13 May 2007 21:51:43 +0000

…i have a deathnote….

i only write my friend’s names in it as fun, and make them die in strange ways like “getting hit by a candy truck” or “drowning in a giant vat of pudding”.

By: Kaspian

Kaspian — Sun, 13 May 2007 20:53:55 +0000

I guess these notebooks will make for handy evidence for the police, should one of these kids suddenly go postal.

By: mitaker

mitaker — Sun, 13 May 2007 06:45:00 +0000

The issue of the video wasn’t that it was a ripoff of a Japanese story. Even as a Japanese, I would have to argue that this isn’t a copyright infringement. There have always been stories about notebooks or chainletters and stuff that will curse you or kill you. Death Note wasn’t unique to come up with that. Death Note’s popularity came from the characters, not the death note itself.

That having been said, I think notebooks like this have always existed at least in Japan (so I wouldn’t be surprised if they surfaced in Korea). But never were they sold as a product to children…. that’s just terrible.

By: helical

helical — Sun, 13 May 2007 04:48:59 +0000

This issue was immediately raised in Japan when Death Note became popular, that imitators could so easily turn the idea of the fate-spelling notebook into a tool of bullying and harassment.
Thankfully this didn’t turn into a big issue in Japan, but I do have to wonder what the Koreans were thinking when they marketed this item directly to kids. I guess I just have to assume they didn’t care what happened as long as the notebook sold…

Also, this seems to be becoming an issue in China as well.
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20070511-00000007-rcdc-cn

By: Akoua Doffou

Akoua Doffou — Sun, 13 May 2007 03:42:43 +0000

Too many to count!

By: the overthinker

the overthinker — Sun, 13 May 2007 03:38:49 +0000

Hmmm. How many notebooks are filled with “Japan should sink into the East Sea because they won’t recognise our rightful claim to Dokdo”?

By: Asuka

Asuka — Sun, 13 May 2007 02:46:29 +0000

I wonder if the Koreans would get their own version of Jigoku Shoujo too?