Takeshi Obata

Takeshi Obata is a Manga Artist which means that most of the time he is working in collaboration with a writer. He first worked with famous mangaka like Kentaro Yabuki (author of Black Cat and To-LOVE-Ru), Nobuhiro Watsuki ( Rurouni Kenshin) as well as Murata Yusuke ( Eyeshield 21). In 1985 he became known in winning a prize in the Tezuka Award for his one shot 500 Kōnen no Kaiwa. Then he joinedthe Weekly Shonen Jump staff, he mentored under Makoto Niwano before starting his first major series, writing and drawing Cyborg Jii-chan G in 1989. He finally began the series that established his name when he teamed with Yumi Hotta on Hikaru no Go starting in 1998. He is most well-known as the artist of Hikaru no Go, for which he received the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2000 and the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2003, 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. He has served as the artist of Blue Dragon Ral Grad, a manga adaptation of the fantasy video game, Blue Dragon from December 2006 to July 2007.

He is now currently working on a new series with Tsugumi Ohba, Bakuman, which began in August, 2008. In addition to his manga work, he has also done character design work for the video game Castlevania Judgment.

Tite Kubo

Kubo-sensei mulai menggambar manga di sekolah menengah. Itu dalam tahun ketiga sekolah menengah di mana dia awalnya menulis manga pertama, Zombie Powder. Ia diserahkan kepada seorang Shonen Jump kontes namun kalah karena kurangnya pengalaman. Namun, ia menerima panggilan telepon dari salah satu editor majalah, menyarankan mereka bekerja di sana bersama-sama.

Zombie Powder akhirnya mulai publikasi pada tahun 1999 (dalam Weekly Shonen Jump) dan berlari untuk hanya 4 tankoubon atau novel grafis. Itu dihentikan oleh Weekly Shonen Jump karena kurangnya popularitas dan overdosis konten seksual.

Masashi Kishimoto

Masashi Kishimoto (岸本斉史 — Kishimoto Masashi; lahir di Prefektur Okayama, Jepang, 8 November 1974; umur 36 tahun) adalah seorang mangaka Jepang. Masashi Kishimoto mulai mengembangkan bakatnya akan menggambar semenjak usia SD. Masashi Kishimoto menjadi mangaka terkenal semenjak karyanya, Naruto sukses besar baik di Jepang sendiri ataupun di negara-negara lain.

Pada tahun 1999 Naruto pertama kali dipublikasikan di Shounen jump membuat Kishimoto menerima penghargaan hop step. Saudara kembar Masashi Kishimoto, Seishi Kishimoto juga merupakan seniman manga dengan karyanya yang terkenal 666 Satan

Ito Ogure

Oh! great, whose real name is Ito Ōgure (大暮 維人 Ōgure Ito, born 22 February 1972 in Hyuga, Miyazaki, Japan), is a Japanesemanga artist most recognized for the manga series Tenjho Tenge and Air Gear. In 2006, he received the Kodansha Manga Award forshōnen for Air Gear. Oh! great also created the adult series Silky Whip. Apart from working with manga, he designed some of the alternate character outfits in the PlayStation 2 version of Namco's 3D fighting game Tekken 5, and a guest character in Soul Calibur IVnamed Ashlotte. His pseudonym "Oh! great" is a play on words. His pen name, written in Japanese order (family name before given name), is "Ōgure Ito", which is pronounced similarly to and can be romanized the same as the Japanese rendering of the English words "Oh great," ōgurēto[oːɡuɽeːto]. Furthermore, "Oh" can mean "king" in Japanese, making it possible to read the name as "the great king".