manga artists thread

kitski · (#1 (**permalink**))

umm so i was thinking that maybe we should show people the artsits that make anime..so feel free to post a pic of an manga artist..
i found a group of women who are manga artists..
Clamp (manga artists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Kanji_The_Wanderer · (#2 (**permalink**))

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.

kitski · (#3 (**permalink**))

takeshi obata is awesome.thanks for the inf. kanji-kun..^^

Kanji_The_Wanderer · (#4 (**permalink**))

This is a direct reference from wikipedia:

NOBUHIRO WATSUKI (born May 26, 1970) is a Japanese mangaka, best known for his samurai-themed series Rurouni Kenshin. He once worked as an assistant for his favorite author Takeshi Obata, and is influenced by Marvel comics such as the X-Men, Spider-Man, Hulk, and Spawn when making his characters.

Nobuhiro Watsuki was born in Nagaoka, Niigata prefecture, Japan. When Watsuki was a young boy, his brother, who was three years older, drew manga. Watsuki’s older brother was his role model so he started drawing Manga as well. Watsuki was also inspired by various Manga artists of the older times. A few of them were Osamu Tezuka and Fujiko F. Fujio. Later on, his brother stopped drawing manga but, “Because Mr. Watsuki was dumb, he kept drawing it (manga) for a while.”

When Watsuki was in middle school, he practiced kendo. Kendo is the art of wooden swords. He still drew Manga but also wanted to partake in sports. Watsuki admits that he was very weak. “So weak in fact,” says Watsuki, “That I was an embarrassment to my 183 centimeters of height.” (RK vol. 1) Watsuki never won a kendo match. One time, though, he was selected to be a starter. This happened because the boy who was supposed to start was suspended for causing an uproar. After a while, Watsuki got frustrated with kendo, and eventually quit. When he was challenged to come up with a new character for Rurouni Kenshin, he used his outlook on kendo for a base of Myōjin Yahiko.

Nobuhiro Watsuki has had many works in the past. In high school he won the Hop Step award for his work on his comic sleeve he called Podmark. Not much is known about Podmark because it has not been translated to English. Later on, Watsuki was an assistant in the work of Arabian Lamp-Lamp. The model for Sagara Sanosuke was based on a different version of Lamp. In 1994 a new sleeve was created and published in Shonen Jump Weekly. It seems that this was the first sleeve about Rurouni Kenshin. His most recent work, Buso Renkin (Arms Alchemy) was published on June 2003, also in Jump.

When not working on manga, Watsuki enjoys playing video games, reading other manga, and watching television. His favorite American comic book is X-Men because he likes the action. His favorite Anime (other than his own) is Neon Genesis Evangelion. He likes video games like Samurai Spirits and things of that sort. He also enjoys action movies like Die Hard and The Matrix.

MANGA WORKS:

Crescent Moon in the Warring States (first professional work)
Rurouni: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story
Rurouni Kenshin
Kenshin Kaden
Yahiko no Sakabatō
Meteor Strike
GUN BLAZE WEST
Buso Renkin
Embalming -DEAD BODY and BRIDE
Embalming II -DEAD BODY and LOVER