Takeshi Obata
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is a Japanese manga artist
Mangaka
is the Japanese word for a comic artist or cartoonist. Outside of Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese...

. He works as the artist in collaboration with a writer. He has also mentored several manga artists, including Kentaro Yabuki
Kentaro Yabuki
is a Japanese manga artist. His mentor is Takeshi Obata, the illustrator of Death Note, Hikaru no Go and Bakuman.Yabuki is best known for the series Black Cat which ran 20 volumes and was published in the United States. Upon its ending, Yabuki expressed desire to make a sequel from the series, or...

 of Black Cat
Black Cat (manga)
is a Japanese Shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Kentaro Yabuki. It was originally serialized in Japan in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump. It was later collected in twenty tankōbon volumes from January 11, 2001 to October 9, 2004. The series was adapted into a twenty-four episode anime...

fame, Nobuhiro Watsuki
Nobuhiro Watsuki
is a Japanese manga artist, best known for his samurai-themed series Rurouni Kenshin. He once worked as an assistant for his favorite author Takeshi Obata.-Biography:...

 of Rurouni Kenshin
Rurouni Kenshin
, also known as Rurouni Kenshin and Samurai X, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuhiro Watsuki. The fictional setting takes place during the early Meiji period in Japan. The story is about a fictional assassin named Himura Kenshin, from the Bakumatsu who becomes a wanderer to...

and Busou Renkin, and Yusuke Murata
Yusuke Murata
, is a Japanese manga artist. He's best known for illustrating the American football manga Eyeshield 21, in collaboration with writer Riichiro Inagaki. During the creation of this series, his art style developed dramatically. Eyeshield 21 was completed in June 2009.He was once the assistant and...

 of Eyeshield 21
Eyeshield 21
is a manga about American football written by Riichiro Inagaki and illustrated by Yusuke Murata. It has been adapted into an anime movie in 2004 , an anime television series in 2005, several video games and a trading card game from Konami. The manga is serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump...

.

He originally became noticed in 1985 when he took a prize in the Tezuka Award
Tezuka Award
The is a semi-annual manga award offered by the Japanese publisher Shueisha , under the auspices of its Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. It awards new comic artists in the Story Manga category. Its counterpart award, Akatsuka Award, awards new comic artists in the Comedic Manga category...

 for his one shot 500 Kōnen no Kaiwa. Joining the Weekly Shonen Jump
Weekly Shonen Jump
is a weekly shōnen manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines. The first issue was released with a cover date of July 2, 1968, and it is still circulating. One of the longest-running manga magazines in Japan, it has a circulation of 2.8 million copies...

staff, he mentored under Makoto Niwano
Makoto Niwano
is a manga artist.He created several series, including Bomber Girl.-References:...

 before starting his first major series, writing and drawing Cyborg Jii-chan G in 1989. Having difficulty for several years in finding a hit, Obata began collaborating with other writers on their stories. He finally began the series that established his name when he teamed with Yumi Hotta
Yumi Hotta
is a Japanese manga artist, born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan in 1957.Hotta is best known as the author of the best-selling manga and anime series Hikaru no Go, about the game of go that is widely credited for the recent boom of the game in Japan. The idea behind Hikaru no Go began when Yumi Hotta...

 on Hikaru no Go
Hikaru no Go
is a manga series, a coming of age story based on the board game Go written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata with an anime adaptation. The production of the series' Go games was supervised by Go professional Yukari Umezawa...

starting in 1998.

He is most well known as the artist of Hikaru no Go
Hikaru no Go
is a manga series, a coming of age story based on the board game Go written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata with an anime adaptation. The production of the series' Go games was supervised by Go professional Yukari Umezawa...

, for which he received the Shogakukan Manga Award
Shogakukan Manga Award
The is one of Japan's major manga awards, sponsored by Shogakukan Publishing. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga since 1955 and features candidates from a number of publishers.The current award categories are:...

 in 2000 and the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2003, and Death Note
Death Note
is a manga created by writer Tsugumi Ohba and manga artist Takeshi Obata. The main character is Light Yagami, a high school student who discovers a supernatural notebook, the "Death Note", dropped on Earth by a god of death, or a shinigami, named Ryuk...

. Obata is rare among shōnen
Shonen
The term refers to manga marketed to a male audience aged roughly 10 and up. The Kanji characters literally mean "few" and "year", respectively, where the characters generally mean "comic"...

 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
Blue Dragon Ral Grad
is a manga by Tsuneo Takano and Takeshi Obata, the latter of which is the artist known for Death Note and Hikaru no Go. The series is based on the Blue Dragon video game . Chapters of the manga, referred to as "tales", ran weekly in Japan's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine beginning in December 2006...

, a manga adaptation of the fantasy video game, Blue Dragon from December 2006 to July 2007.

In the fall of 2007, he drew a short story, Hello Baby, with writer Masanori Morita
Masanori Morita
is a Japanese manga artist who is responsible for creating the manga series Rokudenashi Blues and Rookies. Rokudenashi Blues was made into a live action movie. At the beginning of Masonori's career he was an assistant of Tetsuo Hara on Hokuto no Ken....

, which appeared in Jump Square
Jump Square
is a Japanese monthly shōnen manga magazine with a circulation of over 300,000. Published by Shueisha, the magazine premiered on November 2, 2007 as a replacement for Monthly Shōnen Jump, another manga anthology that Shueisha discontinued in June of that year. The magazine is a part of the Jump...

. http://jumpsq.shueisha.co.jp/contents/yomikiri/index.html This was followed by a one-shot manga with Nisio Isin
Nisio Isin
, frequently written as NisiOisiN to emphasize that his pen name is a palindrome, is a Japanese novelist and manga writer. He attended and left Ritsumeikan University without graduating. In 2002, he debuted with the novel , which earned him the 23rd Mephisto Award at twenty years of age...

. He is currently working on a new series with Tsugumi Ohba
Tsugumi Ohba
is a writer best known for the manga Death Note. His real identity is a closely guarded secret. As stated by the profile placed at the beginning of each Death Note manga, Ohba collects teacups and develops manga plots while holding his knees on a chair, similar to a habit of L, one of the main...

, Bakuman
Bakuman
Bakuman, stylized as , is a shōnen manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, the same creative team responsible for Death Note...

, which began in August, 2008.

In addition to his manga work, he has also done character design work for the video game Castlevania Judgment
Castlevania Judgment
Initial reaction to the announcement that the game would be a fighting game was received by some with shock and skepticism. IGN's initial viewing of the pre-E3 build of the game made their reviewers conclude the game had promise...

, as well as illustrating several light novels.

Works

(story & art)
  • Arabian Majin Bokentan Lamp Lamp with Susumu Sendo (writer)
  • Rikito Densetsu -Oni wo Tsugu Mono- with Masaru Miyazaki (writer)
  • Karakurizoshi Ayatsuri Sakon
    Karakurizoshi Ayatsuri Sakon
    is a manga series written by Masaru Miyazaki and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. The plot follows , a bunraku puppeteer who solves mysteries with , a puppet....

    with Sharaku Marou (writer)
  • Hikaru no Go
    Hikaru no Go
    is a manga series, a coming of age story based on the board game Go written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata with an anime adaptation. The production of the series' Go games was supervised by Go professional Yukari Umezawa...

    with Yumi Hotta
    Yumi Hotta
    is a Japanese manga artist, born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan in 1957.Hotta is best known as the author of the best-selling manga and anime series Hikaru no Go, about the game of go that is widely credited for the recent boom of the game in Japan. The idea behind Hikaru no Go began when Yumi Hotta...

     (writer) - supervised by Yukari Yoshihara (5-dan)
  • Death Note
    Death Note
    is a manga created by writer Tsugumi Ohba and manga artist Takeshi Obata. The main character is Light Yagami, a high school student who discovers a supernatural notebook, the "Death Note", dropped on Earth by a god of death, or a shinigami, named Ryuk...

    with Tsugumi Ohba
    Tsugumi Ohba
    is a writer best known for the manga Death Note. His real identity is a closely guarded secret. As stated by the profile placed at the beginning of each Death Note manga, Ohba collects teacups and develops manga plots while holding his knees on a chair, similar to a habit of L, one of the main...

     (writer)
  • Blue Dragon Ral Grad
    Blue Dragon Ral Grad
    is a manga by Tsuneo Takano and Takeshi Obata, the latter of which is the artist known for Death Note and Hikaru no Go. The series is based on the Blue Dragon video game . Chapters of the manga, referred to as "tales", ran weekly in Japan's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine beginning in December 2006...

    with Tsuneo Takano (writer)
  • Hajime
    Hajime
    is the Japanese word meaning . In the Japanese traditional martial arts such as karate, judo, aikido and kendo, it is a verbal command to "begin". Hajime is also a common Japanese given name for males, although it is occasionally used as a surname....

    with Otsuichi (writer)
  • Hello Baby with Masanori Morita
    Masanori Morita
    is a Japanese manga artist who is responsible for creating the manga series Rokudenashi Blues and Rookies. Rokudenashi Blues was made into a live action movie. At the beginning of Masonori's career he was an assistant of Tetsuo Hara on Hokuto no Ken....

     (writer)
  • Uro-oboe Ouroboros with Nisio Isin
    Nisio Isin
    , frequently written as NisiOisiN to emphasize that his pen name is a palindrome, is a Japanese novelist and manga writer. He attended and left Ritsumeikan University without graduating. In 2002, he debuted with the novel , which earned him the 23rd Mephisto Award at twenty years of age...

     (writer)
  • Castlevania Judgment
    Castlevania Judgment
    Initial reaction to the announcement that the game would be a fighting game was received by some with shock and skepticism. IGN's initial viewing of the pre-E3 build of the game made their reviewers conclude the game had promise...

    (character design)
  • Bakuman
    Bakuman
    Bakuman, stylized as , is a shōnen manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, the same creative team responsible for Death Note...

    with Tsugumi Ohba
    Tsugumi Ohba
    is a writer best known for the manga Death Note. His real identity is a closely guarded secret. As stated by the profile placed at the beginning of each Death Note manga, Ohba collects teacups and develops manga plots while holding his knees on a chair, similar to a habit of L, one of the main...

     (writer)

Awards and nominations

Nominated-Eisner Award
Eisner Award
The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, and sometimes referred to as the Oscar Awards of the Comics Industry, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books. The Eisner Awards were first conferred in 1988, created in response to the...

s 2008 Best Artist for his work on Death Note
Death Note
is a manga created by writer Tsugumi Ohba and manga artist Takeshi Obata. The main character is Light Yagami, a high school student who discovers a supernatural notebook, the "Death Note", dropped on Earth by a god of death, or a shinigami, named Ryuk...

and Hikaru no Go
Hikaru no Go
is a manga series, a coming of age story based on the board game Go written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata with an anime adaptation. The production of the series' Go games was supervised by Go professional Yukari Umezawa...

.

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