[Kanji_The_Wanderer]

Oh yeah! Clamp is awesome. They are four woman. They made all kinds of famous stuff. You want manga artists huh? Then here are my 2 favorites! (my idols)

TAKESHI OBATA

Takeshi Obata- born February 11, 1969 in Niigata. He generally works as the primary artist in collaboration with a writer. He has also mentored several mangaka, including Kentaro Yabuki of Black Cat and Nobuhiro Watsuki of Rurouni Kenshin.

He is most well-known as the artist of Hikaru no Go and Death Note. Obata is rare among shōnen artists not only for the detail of his drawings, but in his penchant for fashion; the characters he draws often wear stylish clothes and trendy items like the latest fashionable scarf, tie or handbag.

Since late 2006 he has served as the artist of Blue Dragon Ral Grado, a manga adaptation of the fantasy video game, Blue Dragon.




KATSUHIRO OTOMO

Katsuhiro Ōtomo-born April 14, 1954 is a Japanese manga artist and director. He is perhaps best known for being the creator of the manga Akira and its anime adaptation, which are extremely famous and influential. Otomo has also directed several live action films, such as the recent 2006 feature film adaptation of the Mushishi manga.

Ōtomo was born in the former town of Hasama, in Miyagi Prefecture.

As a teenager growing up in the turbulent 1960s, he was surrounded by the demonstrations of both students and workers against the Japanese government. This period of change in Japan is what created the Japan we all know today - a Japan that is a sharp contrast to the occupation era that occurred after World War II. The riots, demonstrations, and overall chaotic conditions of this time would serve as the inspiration for his best known work, Akira. Some would argue that this seminal work is an allegory of 1960s Japan, and that one could easily substitute the year 2019 for 1969 and leave little difference in the basic story.

The animation from this period (especially the works coming out of Tokyo animation studios Mushi Production and Toei Doga) were influencing young Ōtomo. Works like Gigantor, Astro Boy, and Hols: Prince of the Sun would help push Ōtomo toward a career in animation. However, it was the films coming out of America that were driving his rebellious nature. Five Easy Pieces and Easy Rider would serve as inspiration for Shotaro Kaneda and his biker gang in Akira: rebellious youth who took too many drugs and didn't care about authority or the pressures put on them by their parents' generation.

Ōtomo has recently worked extensively with noted studio Sunrise with the studio animating and producing his two most recent projects, the 2004 feature film Steamboy and 2006's Freedom Project.