Tsugumi Ohba

Tsugumi Ohba is the pen name of a Japanese manga writer best known for Death Note, created with illustrator Takeshi Obata and serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 2003 to 2006. It has 30 million collected volumes in circulation.

The pair's second series, Bakuman (2008–2012), reached 15 million copies. A third collaboration, Platinum End, ran in the monthly Jump SQ from November 2015 to January 2021. In 2014 Ohba also wrote the one-shot Skip! Yamada-kun with My Little Monster creator Robico.

Death Note won the Eagle Award for Favourite Manga in 2008. Ohba has named Shotaro Ishinomori, Fujiko Fujio and Fujio Akatsuka as major influences.