#takeshi obata

[wayward-delver]

“DEATH TOME,” The Simpsons DEATH NOTE Parody (FULL)

It is animated by DR Movie who also worked on the original series.

[2001hz]

Takeshi Obata in UltraGraphics (1999-2009)

[kurrusu]

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Death Note (デスノート) // Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata

[relicariums]

By Takeshi Obata

[void4life]

Remake.

[se-chan91]

[fattymadiy]

let’s give it up for the greatest manga artist to exist

[vampvelvet]

i went scrounging though this wiki for more official death note art that my heart desired. particularly obsessed with the misa art, the catholic L imagery, and lights undone pants.... im just surprised i havent seen most of this art before

[artcllctn]

[mysillyside]

I got Death Note HTR13 recently and reading it made me realize how there's barely any thematic meaning put into this story intentionally. Same with political commentary. Even (most of) the discussion around morality. Everything remotely intellectual ppl discuss about this series isn't a conscious decision, to a point that both Ohba (creator/writer) and Obata (artist), admit they were surprised by how much ppl had to say and analyze abt it.

Example of what I mean:

Also during the interview sections, there's so many instances of Obata asking Ohba what his creative vision was for this and that and Ohba just nonchalantly admitting he barely put any thought into the story beyond "oh this would be cool" or "oh this kinda fits the vibe".

There's a whole page of the interview where Obata is befuddled how the apples didn't have any intended symbolism behind them after Ohba tells him they were purely an aesthetic choice. Obata is so shocked by this (bc he knows apples are a common religious motif in art) he actually keeps asking Ohba if he's joking, while Ohba keeps stressing he's being serious. (Context: they never interacted while working on Death Note, they only spoke through their editor who'd rely production notes)

Obata for like three pages during his interview with Ohba in HTR13, after Ohba told him apples had no symbolic or thematic meaning in Death Note:

[cavalier-consciousness]

+ blanc et noir by takeshi obata

[2001hz]

Ryuk in Blanc et Noir (2006) Artwork Illustrated By: Takeshi Obata

[mapsareforbraindeads]

L studies!

[strangemonochromes]

Death Note (デスノート) // Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata

[relicariums]

By Takeshi Obata