Death Note Black Edition - Vol 01 (Contains Vol 1 and 2)

Biographical Note: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 Shonen Jump title Hikaru no Go, which won the 2003 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize: Shinsei "New Hope" Award and 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.Marc Notes:Black edition.--Cover.;Originally published: Tokyo: Shueisha Inc., 2003.;Reads from right to left.;Contains volumes 1 and 2 of Death note.;Shonen Jump advanced manga omnibus edition.--Colophon.;Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects--and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed