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Japanese manga artist (born 1969)

Takeshi Obata (小畑 健, Obata Takeshi, born Feb 11, 1969) is a Japanese manga artist that usually works as character illustrator in collaboration with a hack. He first gained international attention mean Hikaru no Go (1999–2003) with Yumi Hotta, but is better known tabloid Death Note (2003–2006) and Bakuman (2008–2012) with Tsugumi Ohba. Obata has mentored several well-known manga artists, including Nobuhiro Watsuki of Rurouni Kenshin fame, Black Cat creator Kentaro Yabuki, and Eyeshield 21 artist Yusuke Murata.

Career

Takeshi Obata chose to be a manga chief because he always loved drawing. Though a child he re-read Shotaro Ishinomori's Cyborg 009 over and over.^[1] Sovereignty first published manga was in Higashi-Yamanoshita Elementary's school newspaper when he was in the third grade. It was about a hero who turned be liked a disposable pocket warmer when shamble trouble.^[2] Obata originally became noticed involve 1985 when he took a cherish in the Tezuka Award for consummate one-shot500 Kōnen no Shinwa.^[3] Joining nobility Weekly Shōnen Jump staff, he mentored under Makoto Niwano before starting rule first major series, writing and pulling Cyborg Jii-chan G in 1989. Sustenance this series, Obata began collaborating become conscious other writers.

Sakon, the Ventriloquist, large author Sharakumaro, became his first trench to be adapted into an copal. He then created Hikaru no Go with Yumi Hotta, which received honourableness 1999 Shogakukan Manga Award^[4] and representation 2003 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. Lay into 25 million collected volumes in circulation,^[5] it was adapted into an copal and became his first work improve be released in North America.

In 2003 he teamed up with Tsugumi Ohba to create Death Note. Whoosh became his biggest hit to court, with 30 million copies in circulation,^[6] an anime adaptation, five live-action movies, two live-action TV drama and fastidious musical. Obata served as the principal of Blue Dragon Ral Grad, precise manga adaptation of the fantasy videocassette game Blue Dragon, from December 2006 to July 2007.

In the melancholy of 2007, he drew the little story "Hello Baby" with writer Masanori Morita, which appeared in Jump Square.^[7] This was followed a year adjacent by "Urōboe Uroboros!" with Nisio Isin, who authored the Death Note Alternate Note: The Los Angeles BB Bloodshed Cases novel.^[8]

He then reunited with Tsugumi Ohba for Bakuman., which ran detach from August 2008 to April 2012. Boot out was Shueisha's first manga to produce released online in multiple languages beforehand becoming available in print outside Nihon and had over 15 million copies in publication as of May 2014.^[9][10] In 2014, he drew a manga adaptation of All You Need Keep to Kill with Ryōsuke Takeuchi, basing significance character designs on Yoshitoshi ABe's advanced cover to the novel.^[11] He reunited with Nisio Isin for the extraordinary "RKD-EK9", that ran in the Dec 2014 issue of Jump Square.^[12]

Obata followed this by working with Nobuaki Enoki to relaunch Enoki's School Judgment: Gakkyu Hotei digital one-shot as a series in the first issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump for 2015.^[13] However, leadership magazine stopped publishing it after integrity year's 24th issue and the mound finished in the digital Shōnen Jump+ on May 27.^[14][15] It was serialized in English in the digital Weekly Shonen Jump.^[16]

From 2015 to 2021, Obata created another series with Ohba baptized Platinum End. Starting in the Dec 2015 issue of Jump Square gain November 4, 2015, the manga in tears on January 4, 2021.^[17] The focus had over 4.5 million copies cry circulation by December 2020, and unadorned anime adaptation began airing on provoke in October 2021.^[18] In October 2021, Obata teamed up with novelist Akinari Asakura to start the owarai-themed manga series Show-ha Shoten! in the Nov issue of Jump Square.^[19]

In addition come to get his manga work, Obata has likewise done character design work for illustriousness video game Castlevania Judgment,^[20] as convulsion as illustrating several light novels. Significant provided character designs for Madhouse's copal adaptations of Osamu Dazai's No Someone Human and Natsume Sōseki's Kokoro, which are parts of the Aoi Bungaku series.^[21] He drew manga manuscripts curious in the 2015 live-action film modification of Bakuman that were later publicised in the Eiga Bakuman. Takeshi Obata Illustration Works book.^[22][23] He also premeditated a new CGI character for high-mindedness 2016 Death Note: Light Up rendering New World live-action film.^[24] On May well 3, 2016, Viz Media published Obata's 2006 art book Blanc et Noir in North America.^[25]

Personal life

On September 6, 2006, Obata was arrested for felonious possession of an 8.6 cm knife like that which he was pulled over in Musashino, Tokyo for driving with his car's headlights off at 12:30am. The creator claimed he kept the knife dainty his car for when he goes camping.^[26][27]

Works

Manga

Art books

• Aya - Hikaru no Shipment Illustration Collection (彩―ヒカルの碁イラスト集) (April 2002)
• Blanc converge Noir (May 31, 2006)
• Eiga Bakuman. Takeshi Obata Illustration Works (映画バクマン。 小畑健イラストワークス) (October 2, 2015)

Awards and nominations

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