An anonymous commentator pointed out that as much as Now: Zero resembles Death Note, it resembles the Death Note
pilot chapter even more:
http://sub-divided.livejournal.com/131007.html?thread=1459903#t1459903 So the question is, does one of
these translations of J.G. Ballard's work into Japanese contain the short story "Now: Zero"? Does anyone know?
EDIT:
Yes.