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Light Yagami and the notebook that kills; the manga the anime followed closely.

Neo-Tokyo, biker gangs and a psychic child; Otomo's six volumes the film only sketched.

A boy in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, drawn by a survivor; the manga on the bomb.

Miyazaki's seven-volume manga of the toxic jungle and the princess who understands it; darker than the film.

A disgraced executioner pushes his son across Edo Japan in a cart of hidden blades.

Guts, the Band of the Hawk and the Eclipse; Miura's dark fantasy, unfinished at his death.

A guilt-ridden detective cannot sleep through the Alaskan midnight sun.

A Miami forensics analyst who kills killers; the first four seasons.