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Death Note's Ryuk Inspires Face Mask

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Death Note fans, get ready as Ryuk joins the line of anime-themed face mask packs in a limited-time Harajuku store. The "Death Note Face Pack ~Ryuk~" appears as a collaboration between the shop and the new Death Note film, Death Note: Light up the NEW World.

The "Isshindou Main Shop DESIGN FACE PACK" is a store open just from October 8 to November 30 in Tokyo Plaza Omotesandō Harajuku's third floor pop-up space OMOHARA STATION. The shop was open around the same time in 2015 and sells 47 varieties of fun face mask packs from old and new media including popular anime such as Doraemon, Attack on Titan, Dragon Ball, and Chibi Maruko-chan. The store makes the unique experience more fun by offering customers the chance to try on any of the masks (50 per day limit) for free and allowing visitors to take photographs and relax in the store.

The shops Kabuki-themed masks were the official souvenir of the G7 Ise-Shima Summit this past May. The mask store and the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum are currently selling a "Van Gogh Face Pack", as well, in collaboration with the "Van Gogh and Gauguin Exhibit" at the museum starting October 8.

Death Note: Light up the NEW World will open in Japan on October 29. A three-episode prequel mini-series titled Death Note NEW GENERATION premiered on Hulu on September 16, and all three episodes are streaming now. The film is a "forbidden sequel" to the two earlier live-action Death Note films, 2006's Death Note and Death Note: The Last Name. In the new film's story, a highly advanced information society is beset by global cyber-terrorism in 2016. New charismatic figures, who "inherited the DNA" of Light (previously played Tatsuya Fujiwara) and the detective L (Ken'ichi Matsuyama), emerge. The successors of the two geniuses will wage a war over six Death Notes on Earth.

Source: Anime! Anime! via Otakomu