Tsugumi Ooba manga in English: every series and where to start

Tsugumi Ooba has 4 series with English volumes. 3 of them are complete in English. Ooba is credited with the story on every one. Takeshi Obata is the other author on all four. The volume counts below are as of October 2026.

Death Note

Light Yagami has the top grades at his high school in Tokyo. One day in class he sees a black notebook fall into the school yard. That is the opening of Death Note.

Ooba wrote the story. Obata shares the author credit. The genres are drama, mystery, psychological, supernatural and thriller. Detective and police themes run through it. Anti-hero and urban fantasy are listed as themes too.

The series is finished in Japan at 13 volumes. In English 12 volumes are out. So it is not yet complete in English. No next English volume is listed.

Bakuman。

This is a manga about making manga. It comes from the same team as Death Note. The lead is Moritaka Mashiro. He is a middle schooler with real talent for drawing. He has no plans for it.

Once again Ooba handled the story with Obata as co-author. Bakuman。 mixes comedy, drama, romance and slice of life. Its themes are drawing, work, writing and meta.

It ran 20 volumes in Japan and is finished there. All 20 are out in English. The series is complete in English.

Platinum End

There is no story summary for Platinum End in our data. The tags give a sense of it instead. It is listed as drama, mystery, psychological, romance and supernatural. The themes are gods, angels, urban and survival.

Ooba is credited with the story. Obata is the other author.

Platinum End finished in Japan at 14 volumes. English readers have all 14. It is complete in English.

Death Note Short Stories

Here we have no story summary either. Death Note Short Stories is tagged drama, psychological and supernatural. Its themes are detective, police, crime and gods.

Ooba wrote the story. Obata again shares the credit.

The book is finished in Japan at 1 volume. That 1 volume is out in English. So it is complete in English.

Where a new reader can start

The numbers make the choice fairly simple. A short series that is complete in English is the easiest way in. Here is how the four line up.

• Death Note Short Stories is the shortest. It is a single volume and it is complete in English.
• Platinum End is complete in English at 14 volumes.
• Bakuman。 is complete in English at 20 volumes. It is the longest of the three finished runs.
• Death Note has 12 of its 13 volumes out in English. It is the one series not yet complete in English.

For the lowest commitment pick up Death Note Short Stories. For a longer read that is all out already go with Platinum End or Bakuman。. Death Note is the most popular of the four. It is also the only one with a volume still missing in English. Release dates for every volume sit on the Tsugumi Ooba creator page.