- Death note, animation production, Madhouse ; production, Nippon Television Network, D.N. Dream Partners, VAP, Shueisha, Madhouse ; producers, Toshio Nakatani, Manabu Tamura, Masao Maruyama ; animation producer, Kentaro Hashimoto ; series director, Tetsuro Araki ; screenplay, Toshiki Inoue, Yonemura Shoji, Tomohiko Ito, Yasuko Kobayashi ; English version produced & distributed by Viz Media, LLC ; in association with Ocean Productions Inc. ; producer, Diana Gage ; English adaptation script, Michelle Clough, Volume 2, box set