Death Note author

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

January 06 2009 22:50 GMT

Written by Ooba Tsugumi
Drawn by Obata Takeshi

There have always been rumors that Ooba Tsugumi is Gamou Hiroshi, the author of the comedy manga "Lucky Man"

　　 OOBATUGUMI
　　　／＼
GAMOU OBATA

Anagram.

Nytefish

United Kingdom4282 Posts

January 06 2009 23:04 GMT

Is this one of those crazy conspiracy theories or is there actually some reason he would want to hide his identity?

Like maybe he's afraid the secret service will track him for writing a story about a mass murderer.
Or he's hugely unpopular with the target audience because he has a big nose.
Or he's really superstitious, actually a woman and lives on mars.

CapO

United States1615 Posts

January 06 2009 23:07 GMT

what?

Megalisk

United States6095 Posts

January 06 2009 23:13 GMT

you mean Tsugumi Ohba?

Ecael

United States6703 Posts

January 06 2009 23:17 GMT

In terms of it actually getting written out it might even look like Oba, though the Japanese have taken a liking of using h to denote the long o, and stop putting the Western order of first/last names in everything.

Megalisk

United States6095 Posts

January 06 2009 23:22 GMT

On January 07 2009 08:17 Ecael wrote:
In terms of it actually getting written out it might even look like Oba, though the Japanese have taken a liking of using h to denote the long o, and stop putting the Western order of first/last names in everything.

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fusionsdf

Canada15390 Posts

January 06 2009 23:22 GMT

On January 07 2009 07:50 thedeadhaji wrote:
Written by Ooba Tsugumi
Drawn by Obata Takeshi

There have always been rumors that Ooba Tsugumi is Gamou Hiroshi, the author of the comedy manga "Lucky Man"

　　 OOBATUGUMI
　　　／＼
GAMOU OBATA

Anagram.

oh wow
never heard of lucky man though :O

is it just me or does one of those names have three 'a's and the other name only one?

ManBearPig

Belgium207 Posts

January 06 2009 23:26 GMT

The S in Tsugumi was conveniently left out

s.a.y

Croatia3840 Posts

January 06 2009 23:36 GMT

Death Note is such a crapy movie, that he needs anagrams so he can make other stuff.

fusionsdf

Canada15390 Posts

January 06 2009 23:47 GMT

#10

On January 07 2009 08:26 ManBearPig wrote:
The S in Tsugumi was conveniently left out

tsu is sometimes (but pretty rarely) romanized Tu.

ta chi tsu te to
ta ti tu te to

fanta[Rn]

Japan2465 Posts

January 06 2009 23:48 GMT

#11

Death Note is a pretty decent anime though, you should look into that rather than into the movie

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

January 06 2009 23:58 GMT

#12

Gamou Hiroshi had always written comedy stuff he the rationale is that he couldnt use his actual pen name to write a very serious and brainy series and have the audience take it seriously.

Lemonwalrus

United States5465 Posts

January 07 2009 00:05 GMT

#13

If it is a different genre it makes sense. If you are going to do something that your usual audience may not like, you might want to just 'smurf' so that they don't connect it with you.

CommanderFluffy

Taiwan1059 Posts

January 07 2009 00:48 GMT

#14

oh damn, hella nice observation. blocks have been shat.

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

January 07 2009 00:53 GMT

#15

I should clarify further than his brand of comedy was along the lines of really stupid / outrageous stuff, saying "completely opposite of death note" doesn't even do it justice.

Nytefish

United Kingdom4282 Posts

January 07 2009 01:01 GMT

#16

He must be a pretty good writer.

jodogohoo

Canada2533 Posts

January 07 2009 01:19 GMT

#17

manga guys, manga.
The anime was fine though.

Narrator

United States868 Posts

January 07 2009 01:54 GMT

#18

Hmm, I gotta really read that Death Note manga.

Gonna check this one out too. It sounds interesting with that anagram thing. o_O

Kupon3ss

時の回廊10066 Posts

January 07 2009 02:59 GMT

#19

anagrams don't make sense when one goes from Asian to Romantic languages since each "character" in Asian languages become syllables and not individual letters, which can't really be rearranged the way it is in English

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

January 07 2009 03:19 GMT

#20

About the missing "s" and whatnot, the first names I spelled out are the ones I wrote out off the top of my head, japanese ppel blow at english so it's completely conceivable that they didnt romanize perfectly when coming up with the anagram.

Honestly I dont see how this can be coincidence hahaha considering there's enough evidence to suggest that Ohba is indeed Gamou, esp b/c they showed teh rough draft from the duo's new series on the magazine or something and Ohba's rough drawings are IDENTICAL to gamou's style (some pple are going "it would be epic if Ohba were just trying to completely fool us with this LOL)

rough draft by Ohba