Did the same artist draw Bakuman and Death Note?

Bakuman, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from August 11, 2008 to April 23, 2012, is by the same creative team as Death Note: written by Tsugumi Ohba, drawn by Takeshi Obata. It ran 176 chapters in 20 volumes and had over 15 million copies in circulation by May 2014. It was also the first Shueisha manga released online in multiple languages before its print editions outside Japan.

Inside the story, the mirror is deliberate. Moritaka Mashiro, a talented young artist, teams with classmate Akito Takagi, who writes, and the two publish under the shared pen name Ashirogi Muto: one half draws, the other half thinks, exactly the Ohba and Obata arrangement. Mashiro's late uncle Nobuhiro, a Jump gag artist whose single hit never became an anime, hangs over the story as the warning of what the industry does to the almost-famous.

So the answer comes with a receipt: the team that made a thriller about a notebook then made a drama about their own jobs, and hid their working method inside it. The next page on this shelf explains what Bakuman shows about how manga actually gets made.