Death Note Black Edition

Death Note Black Edition I is the first of six omnibus volumes from an alternative publication of the Death Note manga in which each omnibus volume consists of two volumes from the original publication. This omnibus volume contains the chapters from the original first two volumes, Boredom and Confluence, with better English translations.

Chapters

 * 001. Boredom (退屈, Taikutsu)
 * 002. L (エル, Eru)
 * 003. Family (家族, Kazoku)
 * 004. Current (電流, Denryū)
 * 005. Eyeballs (眼球, Gankyū)
 * 006. Manipulation (操作, Sōsa)
 * 007. Target (標的, Hyōteki)
 * 008. Woman (女, Onna)
 * 009. Slots (穴, Ana)
 * 010. Confluence (合流, Gōryū)
 * 011. One (一, Hitotsu)
 * 012. God (神, Kami)
 * 013. Countdown (秒読, Byōyomi)
 * 014. Temptation (誘惑, Yūwaku)
 * 015. Phone Call (電話, Denwa)
 * 016. Handstand (逆立, Sakadachi)
 * Bonus Christmas comic originally featured in "Weekly Shonen Jump" Vol. 4-5, 2004

Synopsis
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects–and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. Will Light's noble goal succeed, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?

Character Debuts

 * Ryuk
 * Deridovely
 * Coadjuvant Shinigami 1
 * Gook
 * Light Yagami
 * Yamamoto
 * Sachiko Yagami
 * Kurou Otoharada
 * Takuo Shibuimaru
 * Sudou
 * L
 * Touta Matsuda
 * Soichiro Yagami
 * Watari
 * Lind L. Tailor
 * Hirokazu Ukita
 * Coadjuvant Shinigami 4
 * Armonia Justin Beyondormason
 * Sayu Yagami
 * Kanzo Mogi
 * Steve Mason
 * Raye Penber
 * Matsushiro Nakaokaji
 * Kiichiro Osoreda
 * Yuri
 * Sasaki
 * Naomi Misora
 * Yonegoro Nusumi
 * David Lincher
 * Hirokazu Ukita
 * Hideki Ide
 * Shuichi Aizawa

Manga guide

 * The volumes in the manga navigation correspond to the original volumes.