in addition to his manga work, obata has also done character design work for the video game "castlevania judgment", as well as illustrating several light novels. he provided character designs for madhouse's anime adaptations of osamu dazai's "no longer human" and natsume sōseki's "kokoro", which are parts of the "aoi bungaku" series. he also designed a new cgi character for the 2016 "" live-action film. on may 3, 2016, viz media published obata's 2006 art book "blanc et noir" in north america.