Tsugumi Ōba

Tsugumi Ōba (alternative spelling : Tsugumi Ohba , Japanese. 大 場 つ ぐ み , Ōba Tsugumi ) is a Japanese manga writer, whose best-known work is Death Note . It is unknown whether Ōba is a young author or the pseudonym of a well-known author, partly because, despite the success with his first work Death Note, he was not nominated for a prize as the best young artist by his publisher Shūeisha or anywhere else.

Works

• Death Note (デ ス ノ ー ト , Desu Nōto ) with Takeshi Obata (2003-2006)
  Light Yagami is a gifted student and the best of his high school year. One day, the 17-year-old found a notebook that fell out of nowhere from the sky. Light takes the notebook and discovers instructions for using the book entitled "Death Note". So everyone whose name is written in the book dies. All of this happens under the watchful eye of Ryuk, the god of death. Light uses the Death Note in the episode to kill criminals and make an example with them, whereby he turns the law against himself. An exciting game of cat and mouse begins between him and the police, in which the mysterious detective L also interferes.
• Bakuman. (バ ク マ ン。 ) with Takeshi Obata (2008–2012)
  Moritaka Mashiro is on the way to becoming Japan's number one manga artist. But he does it not only for fame and honor, but also wants to conquer the heart of a girl and thus create what his great role model was denied.
• Platinum End ( Japanese プ ラ チ ナ エ ン ド , Purachina Endo ) with Takeshi Obata (since 2015)
  Mirai's parents are dead and he lives with his uncle and aunt, who treat him like a slave. He longs for death and decides to kill himself. But a female angel interferes with him, because she is of the opinion that all people have a right to happiness! To make Mirai happy, she equips him with wings and gives him arrows that make those who have been hit fall in love with him. She also reveals to him that his uncle and aunt are responsible for the death of his beloved parents. Now Mirai has a goal again and seeks revenge.

Web links

• Literature by and about Tsugumi Ōba in the catalog of the German National Library
• Anime News Network about Tsugumi Ōba