US teenager suspended from school for keeping Death Note
Paul •
A teenagage student in the US was recently suspended from his Virginia school after he was discovered to be writing his own (clearly labelled) “death note”; alarms were immediately raised when a teacher found the student listing and reading out the names of several of his fellow class-mates, something that’s unsurprising given the US education system still recovering from the spring 2007 Seung-Hui Cho shootings at Virginia Tech university.
Of course, he was inspired by the world famous Japanese franchise of same name, in which the main character can almost-instantly murder anyone, anywhere by simply writing their name in the supernatural “Death Note”. The story has created similiar controversies in China and Taiwan, where in certain places the franchise is out-right banned.
