1. Another Note
• Death Note: Another Note
serves as a prequel to the
anime series (Death Note),
detailing the story of L's first
encounter with Naomi
Misora during the Los
Angeles "BB Serial Murder
Case" mentioned in the
anime. The novel was
written by Nisio Isin was
published on August 1, 2006
in Japan. The novel was
released in English on
February 19, 2008

2. Another Note
Main Characters
• BB (Beyond Birthday) : A Serial Killer and a
former successor for L and he has Shinigami
(God of Death) Eyes that let him know the
person’s real name and when will he die by
seeing his face.
• L : The century’s greatest detective and In
the public record alone he solved over 3,500
difficult crimes No body knows his real name
or look .
• Naomi Misora : A former FBI Agent and L
asked for her help in solving the Los Angeles
Murder case .
• Mello (Mihael Keehl): The narrator and the
fictional writer for the novel and a successor
for L

3. Another Note
Main Plot
The novel is narrated by Mello, who says that he
is only telling the story in order to show his
greater knowledge of L over Near (another
successor for L and Mello’s rival). Mello
decides that Near might not be the only
person to read the book, so he should make
it more interesting. While narrating he
begins as a typical narrator, but drops it to
acquire a way of speech that is usually
associated with a live storytelling. The novel
also switches from Mello's view and opinions
to Naomi's point of view and Mello some
times interrupts the story at various points
when he has a problem with how he worded
a certain sentence or how he had a character
speak.

4. Another Note
Main Plot
Beyond's whereabouts remained unknown
from May 2002 to the beginning of the
story, L having tracked cases around the
world to search for him. Beyond came
up with a plan to surpass L, as the
"World's Greatest Criminal“ as L was
“The century’s greatest detective”, giving
L a case that he hoped L would be
unable to solve so Beyond killed three
different people leaving in every crime
scene clues for the next murder that
only L would be able to find so L tries to
find him before he commits the forth
murder .

5. Another Note
The Victims
• Believe Bridesmaid
• Beyond Birthday's first known victim was the freelance writer Believe
Bridesmaid, whom he killed July 31st, 2002, after drugging him and
then choking him with a rope. Four Wara Ningyo (straw dolls) were left
at the crime scene, Bridesmaid's chest was slashed several times; the
killer also took the time to re-dress him. When looking at the autopsy
photos, Naomi Misora found that the wounds were made to resemble
letters (in actuality, a Roman numeral code spelling out the name of the
next victim).
• Quarter Queen
• The second murder happened four days later, on August 4th. The victim,
Quarter Queen (a 13-year-old girl), was also drugged before her death,
the cause of which was blunt force trauma to her skull. Her eyes were
also crushed. Three Wara Ningyo were left at the scene of the crime.

6. Another Note
The Victims
• Backyard Bottomslash
• The third killing happened nine days after Quarter Queen's
murder. Backyard Bottomslash was a 28-year-old bank worker
who had also been drugged before her death, though her age fell
in-between those of the previous two victims (44 and 13). Beyond
Birthday wanted to find out if a human can die of an internal
hemorrhage without rupturing any organs. Beyond Birthday
conducted this experiment by drugging and then beating
Backyard Bottomslash's left arm without breaking the skin. When
this did not work, her death was caused by loss of blood, with her
right leg and left arm cut off. The right leg was discovered in the
bathtub later. The left arm was taken by Beyond Birthday. Two
Wara Ningyo were found nailed to the walls in a similar manner
to the other two cases.

7. Another Note
The Victims
The fourth and last victim:
That is a secret :P