Separated at Birth? Gravelings from Dead Like Me and Ryuk from Death Note
Complicated story. From what I have read, Ryuk, the death god in "Death Note" was originally supposed to be dark and handsome, sort of an anti-Light, but the editors objected. They wanted him to be a monster. So the mangka had to redesign a major character at the last minute. With a major deadline looming, where did he come up with his design for Ryuk?
A few months before "Death Note" the manga's scheduled release, one of Bryan Fuller's many short lived cult classics went on the air on U.S. television. "Dead Like Me" included characters called gravelings, nasty little death imps whose pranks caused all sorts of nasty mayhem and death.
Did the mangka of "Death Note" draw inspiration from the gravelings? Were both Ryuk and the gravelings inspired by some third source?
Graveling:
Ryuk:
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