Born in Tokyo, Tsugumi Ohba is the author of the hit series Death Note, Bakuman。, and Platinum End. Takeshi Obata was born in 1969 in Niigata, Japan, and first achieved international recognition as the artist of the wildly popular Weekly Shonen Jump title Hikaru no Go, which won the 2003 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize: Shinsei New Hope Award ... Read moreand the 2000 Shogakukan Manga Award. He went on to illustrate the smash hit Death Note as well as the hugely successful manga Bakuman。, All You Need Is Kill, and Platinum End. Show Less