Death Note is a Japanese television drama series based on a manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba.
Asobi Asobase () is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rin Suzukawa
In a 2012 paper, author Jolyon Baraka Thomas characterised Death Note as a psychological thriller released in the wake of the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack, saying that it examines the human tendency to express itself through "horrific" cults

