colors_tcg | Colors Chat 94

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This round's topic is.... MANGAKA!
This round is for talking about your favorite mangaka! Share your favorite series by a specific mangaka, a mangaka with your favorite art style, a mangaka whose writing you really like, etc. Recommend suggestions (e.g. if you like X try Y!) or ask for suggestions from others.

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I don't know if I've ever read more than one series by the same mangaka, actually. Like, I know I like Asagiri, but if they've done anything besides Bungou Stray Dogs I don't know it. I know I like Araki, and I know of another non-JoJo series he's done, but I haven't actually read any of it. There are mangaka that I know more by name than for any specific series they've done, like Junji Ito, but I haven't actually read any of his work at all. So I don't super know how to answer this question! I guess it'd just be general manga recs?

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I think maybe I'll consider CLAMP my favorite mangaka. I've read 90% of their works (I think I'm only missing a few one shots and RG Veda). Ever since I read Cardcaptor Sakura and found out they had more where that came from, I've just been following them since middle school haha. I just adore their artstyles and unique story ideas so much. The way they draw cute girls & fashion/aesthetics have been a huge source of inspiration for me. I think besides CCS, my other faves from them are X/1999/Tokyo Babylon and Clover.

I think my second fav would be Jun Mochizuki. I reread Pandora hearts recently and it left me with a bigger appreciation for her storytelling + artwork as well as getting to see her growth throughout the run of the series. I've been following her other series, Vanitas no Carte since the anime dropped and I would rec it if you like PH or vampire stories in general!

Other mangaka I like in terms of artwork but feel like I haven't read enough of their stuff or only like one series of theirs: Shinobu Ohtaka, Junji Ito, Kaori Yuki, Peach-pit, Ai Yazawa, Arina Tanemura, Yana Toboso.

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q hayashida is my fav mangaka (and i don't think i've actually read more than once series by another mangaka so like i'm justified in being annoying this time). i really like cool gory body horror and over-the-top fight scenes BUT i also strongly prefer character driven stories to super plotty ones and she totally delivers on both counts, drhdr and dai dark are both so funny and have THE most endearing characters while also being pretty gross and violent at times and i love love love it. also loooove the grungy industrial fantasy feel to her art, and how creative she is with the media she uses, like the collages she made for the doro volume covers are SO freaking cool. i read somewhere that her publishers had to take pictures of some of the color pages for drhdr instead of scanning them because it didn't capture the effects of the 3-dimensional media and i. just love it i love her brain i want to live in it. also the way she draws women makes me COMPLETELY feral.

will also shoutout kamome shirahama, the only work of hers i've read is witch hat atelier but the art is SO insanely beautiful all the way through and i love the subtle worldbuilding. i'm gonna read enidewi at some point.

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i really like araki's style?? it's definitely changed from when he first started out, but his use of color and composition have always been amazing imo. between the colors, posing, and fashions there's something kinda avant garde about his work. i also really like his sketches because they're just so loose and flowy yet deliberate, i suppose? also the fact he keeps coming up with the most buckwild things to include in jojo is incredible lmao

i also really love junji ito. i'm definitely interested to see how the uzumaki adaption ends up turning out, because i really think his style and writing depends on the manga format. his art is so detailed and expressive, and he manages to use the manga medium to build suspense and even kind of create jumpscares with his pacing/how the manga's laid out. also his cat diary manga is so funny because it uses the classic junji ito art and suspense but it's just about his cute cats.

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Hmm, I guess i am still quite a fan of Araki's art style, but that feels like such a simple answer haha. I have quite enjoyed Umezz's style, 🤟 Um he is pretty much a horror and weird scifi comic artist, but has a very shoujo style, which I always loved. He has done some really dark and fun comics. A lot of people would probably mention Ito Junji also, but yeah Umezz is the style I think of first haha. Sanbe Kei also a mangaka I like. He can have a nice eroge style at times, but I also like the story settings he writes. He is probably well known for Erased, but he has done a lot of neat survival comics as well which is how I first got into his work.

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sad sigh i'm a clamp stan i guess. they have varied styles depending on the series, and i'd say no matter what genre of story you like you'll find something by them you vibe with (especially if you're gay.) i... have doubts anyone into animanga has managed to somehow avoid clamp. y'all know you've seen/read something they had their hands in lol

i also have to begrudgingly admit matsushita yoko's done a lot for me giving me my fave manga but [clenches fist] she also has a lot to answer for too lol

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I love Peach-Pit's stuff a lot!! Shugo Chara is one of my all-time favorite manga, and I love Rozen Maiden and Zombie-Loan, too. The art is super cute and I love the stories they write u_u

For a smaller-time creator I'm also a fan of Asumiko Nakamura. I read a bunch of her stuff in the English versions of the Gothic & Lolita Bible, she has this very detailed, wispy art style that lends to the gothlolita aesthetic very well dklfhgdlfh. I think my favorite of hers is this oneshot she did called Perfect World, about a lady whose husband contracts this weird fatal disease that makes him sprout flowers all over his body :') good read if you wanna cry a little

Edited 2022-01-29 22:55 (UTC)