According to ICv2 News:
Courtesy Viz
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“The Gadsen (Alabama) Times is reporting that two 12-year-old students at the West End Elementary School were arrested after school authorities discovered a Death Note-inspired notebook containing the names of faculty members, school personnel and students. The two boys, who have been suspended from school, explained that the got the idea from Viz Media’s Death Note anime series, which is running on the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. The anime is based on the manga series, written by Tsugumi Ohba, about a precocious teenager who discovers a shinigami’s (Japanese “death” figure’s) notebook. If a person’s name is written in the notebook, that person will die.”
