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This is a list of notable manga artists. Romanized names are written in Western order (given names before family names), whereas kanji names are written in Japanese order (family names before given names).
More rarely a manga artist breaks into the industry directly, without previously being an assistant. For example, Naoko Takeuchi, author of Sailor Moon, won a Kodansha Manga Award contest and manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka was first published while studying an unrelated degree, without working as an assistant. [2]
Manga (漫画, IPA: ⓘ [a]) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. [1] Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, [2] and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. [3] The term manga is used in Japan to refer to both comics and cartooning. Outside of Japan, the word is typically used to ...
Naoki Urasawa (Japanese: 浦沢 直樹, Hepburn: Urasawa Naoki, born January 2, 1960) is a Japanese manga artist and musician. He has been drawing manga since he was four years old, and for most of his professional career has created two series simultaneously.
Toriko was adapted into an anime television series by Toei Animation that aired from 2011 to 2014 before the manga ended in November 2016. [11] The manga was released in North America by Viz Media and the anime by Funimation. Shimabukuro is friends with Eiichiro Oda, author of One Piece. [12]
Eiichiro Oda (Japanese: 尾田 栄一郎, Hepburn: Oda Eiichirō, born January 1, 1975) is a Japanese manga artist and the creator of the series One Piece.With more than 520 million tankōbon copies in circulation worldwide, One Piece is both the best-selling manga in history and the best-selling comic series printed in volume, in turn making Oda one of the best-selling fiction authors.
Osamu Tezuka (手塚 治虫, born 手塚 治, Tezuka Osamu, () 3 November 1928 – 9 February 1989) was a Japanese manga artist, cartoonist and animator. Born in Osaka Prefecture, his prolific output, pioneering techniques and innovative redefinitions of genres earned him such titles as "the Father of Manga" (マンガの父, Manga no Chichi), "the Godfather of Manga" (マンガの教父 ...
Rumiko Takahashi (高橋 留美子, Takahashi Rumiko, born October 10, 1957) is a Japanese manga artist.With a career of several commercially successful works, beginning with Urusei Yatsura in 1978, she is one of Japan's best-known and wealthiest manga artists.