From Death Note to Bakuman, headmaster in manga-world Maestro Takeshi Obata, told us about his masterpieces in comics and his art.

“During the inspirations session in creating Death Note, I've been hardly inspired by one of my trips in Rome. It's an amazing city, that gave me lots of input informations for my project. I've worked with different writers in my carreer and I have to admit that the focus in our connections hasn't been the difficulties in creating, but, expecially for Death Note, due to the fact that's a fantasy project, so the authors had to come into my wold of only imagination. Cinema? Some directors in Japan had released cinema adptations to my manga's cinema adptations, and some speak about an upcomin Hollywood one, and I'll be so pleased and curious it'd come!”.

All images copyright Takeshi Obata