It is an anime series which is based on manga.
: : Author of Death
Note
Tsugumi Ohba,
the writer and editor of DeathNote. He’s the famous author
in Japan, but the main thing about
this author is, nobody knows who is he, where he came from of his name Ohba is
just a pen name. He is an anonymous guy he’s personal details are totally
secret.
Takeshi Obata,
another writer of Death Note series. He won the prestigious Tezuka award in 1985 & he
was just 16 years old at that
time.
: : Light Yagami
The last name Yagami was the suggestion of Obha. Yagami is made up of Kanji characters per Night &
God and Light stands for moon. Light’s birth date is 28th Feb 1986, the official
KIRA day. L’s birth date is 31st
Oct 1979 that’s Halloween
day.
: : Shinigami Eyes (Lifespan
calculation)
The lifespan of any human which can be seen by only Shinigami eyes. This lifespan
was totally calculated by Obha’s formula. In an interview he said that “I made a complicated math lifespan formula
that only I would understand. I created age of Light with the help of formula
& after Light’s age I forgot how to find age so I chose random numbers for
other characters”. Here is fanmade formula to calculate lifespan.
: : Problems because
of Death Note
In May 2008, a middle school student
was expelled & three others suspended
for having their own Death Note with 15 names in it, the famous names was George W Bush
& Justin Bieber.
In Sep
2009 an 8 year old Australian
boy wrote the battle plan detailing places inside his school where bombs could be placed.
: : Reunion of
writers
After working together for Death Note, Tsugumi Ohba &
Takeshi Obata released their another manga based anime series named Bakuman2.