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I just blogged giving a number of reasons to read the amazing manga Death Note. Since we’ve been blogging about odd ball characters lately, I thought I would give one more reason to read Death Note: Sidoh! The ragged Shinigami is awesomely dumb. Sidoh makes his first appearance in book 8 as a wayward god. It is revealed that Sidoh’s Death Note was the one originally stolen by Ryuk and found by Light Yagami. Lazy and inattentive, Sidoh only realizes his Death Note is missing from the shinigami realm when he is about to die from not writing names in his book. His quest to recover the Death Note on earth is hilariously pathetic.

Upon coming to earth, Sidoh hardly acts like a death god and is even intimidated by psycho human detective Mello. In fact, Mello uses Sidoh as a pawn to fend off the SPK from recovering the Death Note when it is his possession in America. Sidoh dialogue during this is hysterical. While he aimlessly attempts to retrieve a Death Note under Mello’s order he constantly mutters “geez, I guess this will help.” Sidoh clearly would prefer to be wasting his time gambling in the shinigami realm.

Artist Takeshi Obata designed Sidoh to look like a miserable mix of a bird and insect. Also, his tattered cloak turn out to be long bat-like wings, which was a pleasant addition to his look. The character design does a great job at reinforcing his loser demeanor.

Basically, Sidoh is the shinigami equivalent of Charlie Brown. Sidoh first annoyance of the death note “Good Grief… You have to spell the person name correctly in the death note to make the death take effect, doesn’t this thing come with spell check. ”

-Jon

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