Toshiki Inoue

Inoue served as script supervisor on the Death Note television anime, which ran from 2006 to 2007 and adapted Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's manga at the studio Madhouse. His job was breaking the manga into episodic screenplays for weekly broadcast.

Inoue worked under director Tetsuro Araki on the Death Note anime, helping pace the cat-and-mouse struggle between Light Yagami and L across the series' weekly episodes. The show was produced by Madhouse from 2006 to 2007.

Outside Death Note, Inoue built a decades-long career writing tokusatsu series and films, following the same path as his father, Masaru Igami, a veteran scriptwriter in the genre. Born in 1959, Inoue has spent most of his career in that world of Japanese special-effects television.

Yes, Inoue has published manga as a writer, crediting himself on titles including Mebius Gear and Sword Gai. These sit alongside his screenwriting work in tokusatsu and anime.

Toshiki Inoue is a Japanese screenwriter born in 1959, best known for supervising the scripts on the Death Note anime and for decades of writing in Japanese tokusatsu television and film.