Editing Death Note (section)

====Themes====
Writer Tsugumi Ohba had no particular themes in mind for ''Death Note''. When pushed, he suggested: "Humans will all eventually die, so let's give it our all while we're alive".<ref name="HowtoRead69">{{cite book|last=Ohba|first=Tsugumi|title=Death Note 13: How to Read|year=2008|page=[https://archive.org/details/deathnote00ohba_0/page/69 69]|publisher=[[Viz Media]]|isbn=978-1-4215-1888-6|url=https://archive.org/details/deathnote00ohba_0/page/69}}</ref> In a 2012 paper, author Jolyon Baraka Thomas characterised ''Death Note'' as a psychological thriller released in the wake of the 1995 [[Tokyo subway sarin attack]], saying that it examines the human tendency to express itself through "horrific" cults.<ref name="JJRS_Thomas_2012">{{cite journal|last=Thomas|first=Jolyon Baraka|title=Horrific "Cults" and Comic Religion|journal=[[Japanese Journal of Religious Studies]]|volume=39|issue=1|pages=127–151}}</ref>