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Death Note (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 2003 to May 2006, with its chapters collected in 12 tankōbon volumes.
Tsugumi Obha wanted to make a suspense series because they didn’t want to create a typical Shonen story. Obha also said they didn’t derive the Death Note concept from a single source but thought about a story that included Shinigami (or Death Gods) and specific rules.
Death Note (デスノート, Desu Nōto) is a manga series created by writer Tsugumi Ohba and illustrator Takeshi Obata. The series centers around a high school student who discovers a supernatural notebook that allows him to kill anyone by writing the victim's name while picturing their face.
Mar 4, 2024 · Death Note begins with a Shinigami named Ryuk, who laments at the apathy in the Shinigami realm. To ease his boredom and sate his curiosity, Ryuk does the unthinkable and drops a murder notebook into the human world on purpose.
The Death Note process began when Ohba brought thumbnails for two concept ideas to Shueisha; Ohba said that the Death Note pilot, one of the concepts, was "received well" by editors and attained positive reactions by readers.
Death Note is full of symbolism; from the Catholic Christian overtones (apples, and the Shinigami Realm) to literary masterpieces (Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and Sherlock Holmes), Death Note has become one of the few anime to have deep roots in both Western and Japanese cultures.
Death Note (デスノート, Desu Nōto) is a shounen series created by writer Tsugumi Ohba and illustrator Takeshi Obata in 2003. It began as a manga series, and since then, there have been several adaptations...
