Author Information: Tsugumi Ohba, born in Tokyo, is the author of the successful series Death Note. His current series, Bakuman, is published in Weekly Shonen Jump. Takeshi Obata, born in 1969 in Niigata, Japan, is the artist of the widely popular Shonen Jump title Hikaru no Go, which won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2003 and the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2000. Obata is also the artist of Arabian Majin Bokentan Lamp Lamp, Ayatsuri Sakon, Cyborg Jichan G., and the mega-hit manga Death Note. His current series, Bakuman, is published in Weekly Shonen Jump.

Summary: Light Yagami is an honor student with great prospects, but he is terribly bored. Everything changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami (death god). Any person whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has sworn to use the power of the Death Note.