Tsugumi Ohba wrote the manga that the Japanese television drama series Death Note is based on.
is a Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata . is a 2006 live-action Japanese detective supernatural psychological thriller film based on the Death Note manga ( and later anime ) series by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata . is a Japanese television drama series based on the manga series of the same name by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata . Death Note is an upcoming American supernatural thriller film directed by Adam Wingard , based on the manga series of the same name by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata . Tsugumi Ohba . He is best known for authoring the Death Note manga series with illustrator Takeshi Obata from 2003 to 2006 , which has 30 million collected volumes in circulation .