1. Yoshihiro Togashi (1966)

Manga Artist

Japanese manga artist who is best known for illustrating Yu Yu Hakusho and Hunter × Hunter series. These series were published in the popular Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine.

2. Hajime Isayama (1986)

Manga Artist

Best known for his work on the popular Attack on Titan manga series, this Japanese artist was the 2011 recipient of the prestigious Kodansha Manga Award.

3. Rumiko Takahashi (1957)

Manga Artist

Top-selling manga artist and one of history's best-selling female comics artists, with more than 170 million copies of her publications sold.

4. Yana Toboso (1984)

Manga Artist

Manga artist who wrote the 6-chapter story Square Enix, which is about a school for humans and vampires. She received additional fame for the 2006 manga Black Butler, which was...

5. Haruichi Furudate (1983)

Manga Artist

Japanese comic book and manga artist who is best recognized for his series Haikyu!!. He is also known for his series Playground in 2009 and Nisekoi and Haikyū = Nisekyū!!...

6. Masami Kurumada (1953)

Manga Artist

Famous for creating such successful manga as Saint Seiya and Ring ni Kakero, this Japanese artist also penned song lyrics for the soundtracks of the anime programs based on his...

7. Yoshihiro Takahashi (1953)

Manga Artist

Japanese cartoonist known for his popular Ginga (Silver Fang) manga series. He won the 1987 Shogakukan Manga Award.

8. Seishi Kishimoto (1974)

Manga Artist

Japanese manga artist who is known for his 666 Satan series in Monthly Shonen Gangan from 2001 until 2007.

9. Kenji Tsuruta (1961)

Manga Artist

Kenji Tsuruta is a Japanese manga artist. Among his most famous works is the science fiction series Spirit of Wonder which has been adapted into an anime series and brought...

10. Momoko Sakura (1965)

Manga Artist

Miki Miura pen name Momoko Sakura is a Japanese manga artist from Shimizu Shizuoka Prefecture. She is the creator of the long-running manga Chibi Maruko-chan based on her own childhood...

11. Makoto Yukimura (1976)

Manga Artist

Makoto Yukimura is a Japanese manga artist. Yukimura made his debut in 2000 with the praised Planetes serialized in Kodansha Weekly Morning mangazine and adapted into a 26 episodes anime...

12. Nana Haruta (1985)

Manga Artist

Nana Haruta born Yuki Yamashita on June 30 1985 is a female Japanese manga artist. Haruta made her professional manga debut while still in high school in the December 2000...

13. Yuki Suetsugu (1975)

Manga Artist

Yuki Suetsugu is a Japanese manga artist. Her career was put on hiatus after she was discovered of being accountable for plagiarism including tracing. She later resumed her work on...

14. Tatsuma Ejiri (1975)

Manga Artist

Tatsuma Ejiri is a Japanese manga artist most notable for his recent work P2! -let's Play Pingpong!-. P2! was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump other than that he is mostly...

15. Aguri Igarashi (1975)

Manga Artist

Aguri Igarashi is a female Japanese manga artist. She is the illustrator for best selling manga series Bamboo Blade.

16. Mitsuki Koga (1975)

Manga Artist

Mitsuki Koga born January 16 1975 is a Japanese actor who is known to be featured in films that involve much martial arts.

17. Ema Tōyama (1981)

Manga Artist

Ema Tōyama is a female Japanese manga artist. She made her debut in September 2003 in the monthly manga magazine Nakayoshi with her story Tenshi no Tamago. Tokyopop licenced her...

18. Hinako Sugiura (1958)

Manga Artist

Hinako Sugiura was a manga artist and researcher in the lifestyles and customs of Japan's Edo period. Born Junko Suzuki in Minato Tokyo into a tradition-steeped family of kimono merchants...

19. Motoei Shinzawa (1958)

Manga Artist

Motoei Shinzawa is a Japanese manga artist born June 10 1958 in Kashiwazaki Niigata Prefecture Japan. His debut manga was Sannen Kimen-gumi published in Weekly Shōnen Jump beginning in 1980....

20. Yoshito Usui (1958)

Manga Artist

Yoshito Usui was a Japanese manga artist known for the popular Crayon Shin-chan series. He was born in Shizuoka City Shizuoka Prefecture Japan. He was born Usui Yoshihito.

21. Sanpei Shirato (1932)

Manga Artist

Noboru Okamoto known by the pen name Sanpei Shirato is a Japanese manga artist and essayist known for his social criticism as well as his realistic drawing style and the...

22. Monkey Punch (1937)

Manga Artist

Monkey Punch is the pen name of Japanese manga artist Kazuhiko Katō best known for his series Lupin III. In April 2005 he became the professor of Manga Animation at...

23. George Akiyama (1943)

Manga Artist

George Akiyama April 27 1943 in Ashikaga Tochigi Prefecture Japan) is a Japanese manga artist known for dealing with controversial and incendiary topics in many of his works.

24. Yukiko Sumiyoshi (1982)

Manga Artist

Yukiko Sumiyoshi is a female Japanese manga author. She has been creating manga since her debut title Ten no Otoshimono first released in 2004. She is also notable as the...

25. Miki Yoshikawa (1981)

Manga Artist

Miki Yoshikawa is a Japanese manga artist. She was an assistant of Hiro Mashima.

26. Seizō Watase (1945)

Manga Artist

Seizō Watase is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator born 15 February 1945 in Kobe Hyōgo Prefecture Japan. Outside of being an illustrator for numerous posters books and other works...

27. Yasuko Sakata (1953)

Manga Artist

Yasuko Sakata 坂田 靖子 is a manga artist who belongs to the Post Year 24 Group. She was born on the 25th of February 1953 in Osaka Japan. Her official...

28. Ryoko Yamagishi (1947)

Manga Artist

Ryoko Yamagishi is a female Japanese manga artist. She is considered to be one of the Year 24 Group. She studied ballet as a child which plays a part in...

29. Machiko Satonaka (1948)

Manga Artist

Machiko Satonaka is a Japanese shōjo manga artist. She debuted in 1964 with Pia no Shouzou in Shōjo Friend for which she received Kodansha New Faces award. She has received...

30. Shizuru Seino (1976)

Manga Artist

Shizuru Seino is a Japanese manga artist. Her works include Power!! published in North America as Girl Got Game and Love Attack!.

31. Masaya Tokuhiro (1959)

Manga Artist

Masaya Tokuhiro is a Japanese manga artist working for various magazines within the Shueisha lines including Weekly Shōnen Jump and Super Jump. Born in Ōtoyo in the prefecture of Kōchi...

32. Mitsuru Sugaya (1950)

Manga Artist

Mitsuru Sugaya is a Japanese manga artist novelist an author of instructional comics and a racing writer. Sugaya wrote and illustrated Game Center Arashi a manga. He Also Drew A...

33. Yumiko Igarashi (1950)

Manga Artist

Yumiko Igarashi is a female Japanese manga artist. She is a resident of Sapporo Hokkaido. She is also the cousin of fellow manga artist Satsuki Igarashi; a member of Clamp....

34. Keiko Takemiya (1950)

Manga Artist

Keiko Takemiya is a Japanese manga artist. She is included in the Year 24 Group. She resides in Kamukura Kanagawa Prefecture.

35. Michiyo Akaishi (1959)

Manga Artist

Michiyo Akaishi is a Japanese manga artist born in Urawa Saitama Prefecture Japan. She graduated from Saitama Prefectural Dai-Ichi Girls High School. Akaishi then attended Musashino Art University where she...

36. Kamui Fujiwara (Unknow)

Manga Artist

Kamui Fujiwara is a Japanese character designer and manga artist. Fujiwara's father was a soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. He excelled in mathematics and computer...

37. Kazumi Yamashita (artist) (1959)

Manga Artist

Kazumi Yamashita is a Japanese manga artist. Although she writes primarily older shōjo manga she is best known for The Life of Genius Professor Yanagizawa which was published in the...

38. Daisuke Terasawa (Unknow)

Manga Artist

Daisuke Terasawa is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for writing cooking manga such as Mister Ajikko and Shota no Sushi which earned him twice the Kodansha Manga...

39. Osamu Ishiwata (1959)

Manga Artist

Osamu Ishiwata is a Japanese manga artist. He won the 1989 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen for B. B. The manga artist Yoshitomo Yoshimoto is his younger brother.

40. Koi Ikeno (1959)

Manga Artist

Koi Ikeno is a manga author and illustrator. Family name : 池野 Given name: 恋. She was born April 16 1959 in Hanamaki Iwate Prefecture Japan. She created Tokimeki Tonight...

41. Hisaichi Ishii (1951)

Manga Artist

Hisaichi Ishii is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known outside of Japan for his manga series Nono-chan which was made into the Studio Ghibli anime film My Neighbors...

42. Fuyumi Soryo (1959)

Manga Artist

uyumi Soryo is a Japanese manga artist from Beppu Oita Japan. She is a graduate of the Oita prefectural Geijutsu Midorigaoka High School. She was born into the home of...

43. Kaoru Shintani (1951)

Manga Artist

Kaoru Shintani is a Japanese manga artist. Shintani is best known for his series Area 88 which is widely recognized as one of the finest aviator comic titles in the...

44. Mitsuru Adachi (1951)

Manga Artist

Mitsuru Adachi is a Japanese manga artist. After graduating from Gunma Prefectural Maebashi Commercial High School in 1969 Adachi worked as an assistant for Isami Ishii. He made his manga...

45. Kenichi Sonoda (1962)

Manga Artist

Kenichi Sonoda is a comic book artist and animation character designer.

46. Masakazu Katsura (1962)

Manga Artist

Masakazu Katsura is a Japanese manga artist known for several works of manga including Wing-man Shadow Lady DNA² Video Girl Ai Is and Zetman. He has also worked as character...

47. Masashi Tanaka (1962)

Manga Artist

Masashi Tanaka is a Japanese manga artist best known for Gon his silent manga starring a miniature dinosaur. He began publishing Gon in 1991. He later worked on the game...

48. Mizuho Aimoto (1964)

Manga Artist

Mizuho Aimoto is a female Japanese manga artist.

49. Riku Sanjo (1964)

Manga Artist

Riku Sanjo is a Japanese manga writer. He has worked as both a story writer for manga and anime. He graduated from Meiji University.

50. Osamu Akimoto (Unknow)

Manga Artist

Osamu Akimoto is a Japanese manga artist born on December 11 1952 in Katsushika Tokyo Japan. He is best known for his long-running series Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo which...