Top 10 Male Mangaka Who Draw The Cutest Girls
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Dec 3, 2010 00:25 JST
- Tags: Artists, Illustration, Image Gallery, Mangaka, Moe, Rankings
Japanese asked to rank the male mangaka they consider the most skilled at drawing eye-wateringly cute girls share a list encompassing some of the masters of bishoujo art, as well as a few whose presence on the list is frankly something of a mystery.
1. Mitsuru Adachi (Touch)
2. Tsukasa Hojo (Cat’s Eye)
3. Masakazu Katsura (I”s)
4. Tatsuya Egawa (Golden Boy)
5. Kakifly (K-ON!)
6. Eiichiro Oda (One Piece)
7. Kentaro Yabuki (To Love-Ru)
8. Kōsuke Fujishima (Oh My Goddess!)
9. Akira Toriyama (Dragonball)
10. Takeshi Obata (Death Note)
A ranking which at times perhaps owes more to nostalgia and authority than actual artistic mastery.
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Is there a new definition of cute i don't know of?
yeah, Adachi being no.1
it's just disaster for definition of being cute...
I'll take Tony Taka.
Ken Akamatsu is number 13 FYI.
And why the hell are Eichiro Oda and Akira Toriyama on the top ten??!!
this list is so messed up... i'm not even laughing.
WTF is AKIRA TORIYAMA DOING UP THERE!?!
This isn't a competition of "cute", this is a list of "most widely known styles of drawing girls from popular games/shows etc".
The most surprising fact about this list (in my opinion): Kakifly?
And what about Ken Akamatsu?
I suppose "Moe" is "Cute".
3. Masakazu Katsura (I”s)
Nice.
Moe = cute indeed. Kakifly only made it because of the anime adaptation which is no surprise, but the funny thing about it is that it was the anime, rather than the manga version which used the "cute style" people were going for here. The mangaka only started to mimic that style afterward.
And whilst that's not the ideal picture I would've used to represent Takeshi Obata, in any case my hat's off to that artist.
Fucking. Insane. Talent.
The most surprising fact about the list:
Where's Ken Akamatsu?
Where are my Amano Kozue?
yeah !
Tony Taka is the MAn!!
Quote:
"A ranking which at times perhaps owes more to nostalgia and authority than actual artistic mastery."
Well said, Artefact.
>Where are my Amano Kozue?
She's a woman.
Where the f*ck is Masamune Shirow? That man has draw some of the sexier manga characters ever done!
This list seems to have been compiled without any type of rhyme or reason. Maybe half the artists in the top 10 deserve it, and at least two of them don't deserve to be anywhere near it. #1 on the list draws characters one misshapen nose away from looking like Crayon Shin-chan.
I'd find this list more credible if they said "We had to pick so many artists from the 80s, so many from the 90s, and so many from this decade." Because that's what it looks like.
Where the hell is Kishida Mel?Huke?OMG this poll must be gathered from people in their late 30s (￣▽￣)
I agree with I"s though, pretty cute art IMO
This is the true definition of cute. Real artists, real characters.
Needs Kumeta Kouji. Kitsu Chiri and especially Komori Kiri should be more than enough.
What about Ishikei? :)
Akira Toriyama's artwork should be buff girl rather than cute girl.
@anon 10:18
Kishida Mel is female mangaka. Huke is not a mangaka.
@anon 10:49
Sexy? Yes. Cute? No.
to anon 02:05
this is for male mangaka
no hokuto no ken ?
Moe is the new cute.
But... Death Note and One Piece? Seems so out of place... the rest of the ranking (it goes up to the 29th) seems to reflect more the popularity of the series than the art itself...
Ichigo Mashimaro is there, sup!
I'll take Tsukino Jyogi.
Fujoshi strikes back?
I'm speechless. Everything I thought that was cute were lies?
2, 3, 6, 8 and 10
and number 6 would get 5th place among them, the rest look so standard or in case of no.1: so 90's
these people need to read some more manga, there are certainly better artists out there.
SEO Kouji and Ken Akamatsu comes to mind among others
yeah, i was meh when i saw adachi in #1 spot. adachi is great, but not in terms of cute girls.
obata and fujishima should be on higher spot.
This is screwed up. Where the hell is Akamatsu? And how come Toriyama is there? His "women" look exactly the same as the men, only with less muscle.
And Death Note's mangaka? Gimme a break.
If you actually read Hikaru no Go or Bakuman, then I think you can find out why he's on the list.
hey, bakuman's girls are pretty cute :3
yeah death note, bakuman, hikaru no go got cute girls,
buy... WTF with akira Toriyama????
the reason must be because there lot hentai about dragonball
YOU are the disaster
> 6. Eiichiro Oda (One Piece)
wtf?
just where the hell is that cute?
I can understand the first ones being classics, but this 'thing'?
Forget how bad some of these are, One Piece?! Oh come on, One Piece characters are well established to be Picasso like blob stick figures more often then not..
Throwing boobs on a stick figure does not="cute girl"
I don't know if this survey is messed up or there is a new standard of 'cute girl'...
The one I approve of top ten :
1.Yabuki Kentarou [ To Love Ru ] ( this is perhaps the nearest 'cute' )
2.Kakifly [ K-ON ] ( this one is moe rather than cute )
3.Kosuke Fujishima [ Oh My Goddess ] hmm...no comment here
4 ( Unlisted entry which are many I put here )
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Below are the unexpectedly CUTE :
5.Eichiiro Oda ( One Piece ) [ I love this series, but I never once think that the girls in it are cute... they may act cute, but not look cute at all ]
6.Tatsuya Egawa ( Golden Boy ) [ ...are the girls there cute ? I wonder about that ... ]
7.Tsukasa Hojo [cat's eye]( the term 'beautiful and realistic' is more suited to this mangaka )
8.Mazakasu Katsura [iis] ( again, the term 'beautiful and realistic' is more suited )
9. Takeshi Obata (Death Note) ( this one is realistic and gorgeous, not cute =_= )
WTF with Akira Toriyama ? he draws ok but not enough cuteness =.=, but he draws Goku superbly ( and that's why I read Dragon Ball, not because of the cute girls in it =_= )
Someone explain to me about Toriyama is in this list and Ken Akamatsu isn't.
There is a definition of "cute", and next to it would be one of Masakazu Katsura's drawings.
Yeah that would be it =_<
I'm guessing it's referring to the personality more than appearance =_=.
did you expect 'photorealistic'?
exactly.... i do not agree with any of them other than Masakazu Katsura (from I's and DNA2)
>implying cute means the same as moe
this is cute by old school manga standards. Not the moe-blob we currently enjoy
My thoughts exactly. I can agree with 3, 5, 7, 8 and 9 but the others don't fit exactly into the cute category imo.
kawaii=/=cute
Akira Toriyama + cute? Does not compute. Every single one of his characters have the same face.
That can be said the same with Tony Taka ..
For me personally, Kabuki Kentaro, Masakazu Katsura and Kōsuke Fujishima belongs there.. The rest, not so much.
I do enjoys Obata's girl tho, but he is more hot and matured.
Still, nothing beats Sano Toshihide, Takeda Hiromitsu and Shoji Satoh :D
The same can be said for Adachi...
No offense, but Yabuki and Fujishima should be up top...together with Katsura.
Arale does not