Writer

Toshiki Inoue is a Japanese screenwriter born in 1959 who supervised the scripts for the Death Note anime, an adaptation of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's manga produced by Madhouse.

Shōji Yonemura is a Japanese scriptwriter whose credits include the Death Note anime, alongside a long run of tokusatsu television work such as Kamen Rider Kabuto.

Yasuko Kobayashi is a Japanese screenwriter born in 1965 known for decades of tokusatsu writing, who also contributed scripts to the Death Note anime adapting Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's manga at Madhouse.

Takeshi Obata is the Japanese illustrator who drew Death Note, pairing his artwork with Tsugumi Ohba's story for the manga later adapted into an anime by Madhouse.

Tsugumi Ohba is a pseudonym used by the Japanese writer who scripted Death Note for artist Takeshi Obata, choosing to keep his real identity hidden from the public.

Tetsuya Oishi is the screenwriter who adapted Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's manga into the scripts for the Death Note anime, and has written for several similarly tense psychological and survival series since.

Kiyomi Fujii is a Japanese screenwriter who co-wrote L: Change the World, the 2008 live-action Death Note spinoff film centered on L.

Hirotoshi Kobayashi is a writer who worked on Death Note.

Jeremy Slater is an American film and television writer and producer born in 1978, credited as a writer on the 2017 Netflix adaptation of Death Note.

Katsunari Mano is a Japanese television and film screenwriter who wrote the screenplay for the live-action sequel Death Note: Light Up the New World and its companion web series Death Note: New Generation.

Nisio Isin is a prolific Japanese novelist and screenwriter best known within the Death Note franchise for co-writing its spin-off light novel with series creators Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata.

Vlas Parlapanides is an American screenwriter who, with his brother Charley, was originally attached to write Warner Bros.' live-action Death Note adaptation and later shared final screenplay credit on the 2017 Netflix film.