Death note is the story about a diligent student senior high school who discovers a supernatural book,"Death note",dropped on earth by sinigami or a god of death... We can use this book to kill everyone we want to kill. Just write down the name and imagine the face. And that momments he or she will death.
Death note was writen by Takeshi Obata(小畑 健). Takeshi obata born february 11,1969 in Niigata, Niigata Prefecture is a Japanese manga artist.He works as the artist in collaboration with a writer. He has also mentored several manga artists, including Kentaro Yabuki of Black Cat fame, Nobuhiro Watsuki of Rurouni Kenshin and Busou Renkin, and Yusuke Murata of Eyeshield 21.He originally became noticed in 1985 when he took a prize in the Tezuka Award for his one shot 500 Kōnen no Kaiwa.Joining the Weekly Shonen Jump staff, he mentored under Makoto Niwano before starting his first major series, writing and drawing Cyborg Jii-chan G in 1989. Having difficulty for several years in finding a hit, Obata began collaborating with other writers on their stories. He finally began the series that established his name when he teamed with Yumi Hotta on Hikaru no Go starting in 1998.
He is most well known as the artist of Hikaru no Go, for which he received the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2000 and the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2003, and Death Note. Obata is rare among shōnen artists not only for the detail of his drawings, but in his penchant for fashion ,the characters he draws often wear stylish clothes and trendy items like the latest fashionable scarf, tie or handbag.
This is some of his comics:
1. Cyborg Jii-chan G (CYBORGじいちゃんG（サイボーグじいちゃんジー）) (story & art)
2. Majin Bokentan Lamp Lamp with Susumu Sendo (writer)
3. Rikito Densetsu -Oni wo Tsugu Mono- with Masaru Miyazaki (writer)
4. Karakurizoshi Ayatsuri Sakon with Sharaku Marou (writer)
5. Hikaru no Go with Yumi Hotta (writer) - supervised by Yukari Yoshihara (5-dan)
6. Death Note with Tsugumi Ohba (writer)
7. Blue Dragon Ral Grad with Tsuneo Takano (writer)
8. Hajime with Otsuichi (writer)
9. Hello Baby with Masanori Morita (writer)
10.Uro-oboe Ouroboros with Nisio Isin (writer)
11.Castlevania Judgment (character design)
12.Bakuman with Tsugumi Ohba (writer)
In writing the death note he is assisted by Tsugumi Ohba(大場 つぐみ). He born in Tokyo, Japan. He is a writer best known for the manga Death Note. His real identity is a closely guarded secret.As stated by the profile placed at the beginning of each Death Note manga, Ohba collects teacups and develops manga plots while holding his knees on a chair, similar to a habit of L, one of the main characters of the series.
