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Don, real or elaborate hoax? Lost Brain

PostPosted:Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:18 am
by Eric
Lost Brain

Summary:
名門高校に通い、将来の警視総監を嘱望される天才・氷山庵。
彼は偶然手に入れた、名前を囁かれた人は死んでしまう“催眠術”を使い、法で裁かれない犯罪者を次々と殺していく。
その目的は犯罪のない理想社会の実現だ。一方ICPO(インターポール)は犯罪者の大量死を殺人事件と考え捜査を開始。
世界中の迷宮入り事件を解決してきた謎の探偵・Mを捜査に送り込んできた。
そして氷山とM、2人の天才による壮絶な戦いが始まるのだった。

Translation:

Hiyama Iori is a genius student at a prestigious high school, who is looked to as a future candidate for the Superintendent General (head of police).

One by one he kills criminals who are not punished by law using "hypnosis" that he accidentally discovered.

His objective is the realization of an ideal society with no crime. Meanwhile the ICPO initiates investigation, considering the mass deaths of the criminals as a murder case. They have sent in the mysterious detective -M-, who has solved countless impossible cases, into the investigation.

The decisive battle between two geniuses, Hiyama and M has begun.

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PostPosted:Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:56 am
by Don
Seems like a Death Note ripoff? The author and the illustrator isn't the same person(s) as the one who did DN. There's quite a few copycat series since DN was actually pretty successful. I recommend Liar Game for a decent DN clone, and on the plus side you do not need to have psychic powers to see where the series is going. Also if this is supposed to be DN2, remember that M well... isn't around...

The hypnosis part seems like a direct ripoff from the Pluto guys in Detective School Q.

The only thing official related to DN I'm aware of is the novels that goes over how Naomi (I think that was her name, the wife of the FBI guy) met L in the past and how briliant he was. I mean, if you want to make a DN spinoff, why would you not pick L over the brats?

PostPosted:Fri Dec 14, 2007 9:49 am
by Zeus
What? Japanese animators accused of ripping off successful series'? Say it ain't so!

PostPosted:Sat Dec 15, 2007 4:22 am
by Don
Well, ripping off other stuff is nothing new, but if this M guy is a guy who is crouching all the time and eating candy, that'd be a new low.

PostPosted:Sat Dec 15, 2007 7:57 pm
by RentCavalier
Maybe it's a spoof?

PostPosted:Sat Dec 15, 2007 9:50 pm
by Don
If it's a parody then it shouldn't look so similar to DN? I mean I can see a parody could be like Misa tries to take on the world or something.

PostPosted:Sat Dec 15, 2007 10:32 pm
by Tessian
It sounds like it's trying TOO hard to copy Death Note... I mean comeon.. a person named M? They only bothered to go one letter up in the alphabet?

It sounds like a bad unlicensed spinoff...