Ryuk (Death Note) is from a manga series that later became an anime.
is a Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata . An anime television adaptation aired in Japan from October 3 , 2006 to June 26 , 2007 . is a fictional character in the manga series Death Note , created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata . In the anime adaptation , Ryuk is voiced by Nakamura Shidō in Japanese and by Brian Drummond in the English version .