Takeshi Obata
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Takeshi Obata (born February 11, 1969) is a Japanese manga artist who usually works as the illustrator in collaboration with a writer.
He first gained international notice with Hikaru no Go (1998–2003) with Yumi Hotta, but he is best known for Death Note (2003–2006) and Bakuman (2008–2012) with Tsugumi Ohba.
Obata has mentored many well-known manga artists, including Nobuhiro Watsuki of Rurouni Kenshin, Black Cat creator Kentaro Yabuki, and Eyeshield 21 artist Yusuke Murata.
Personal life
Obata was arrested in Musashino, Tokyo, on September 6, 2006, for operating with his car's headlights off at 12:30 a.m. When he goes camping, the artist said he had it in his car.
Career
Takeshi Obata wanted to be a manga artist because he loved drawing. Shotaro Ishinomori's Cyborg 009 was read over and over as a child. He first became famous in 1985 when he received a trophy in the Tezuka Award for his one-shot 500 Knen no Shinwa. He mentored under Makoto Niwano before starting his first major series, writing and drawing Cyborg Jii-chan G in 1989. He joined the Weekly Shnen Jump staff. Obata began working with other writers after this collection.
Author Sharakumaro's Karakurizu Sakon's first work was converted into an anime. Hikaru no Go with Yumi Hotta, which received the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1999 and the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2003. With 25 million collected volumes in circulation, it was turned into an anime and became his first work to be released in North America.
In 2003, he collaborated with Tsugumi Ohba to create Death Note. With 30 million copies in circulation, an anime adaptation, five live-action films, two live-action TV drama, and a musical, it became his biggest hit to date. Obata was the artist of Blue Dragon Ral Grad, a manga based on the fantasy video game Blue Dragon, from December 2006 to July 2007.
He co-authored "Hello Baby" with writer Masanori Morita, which appeared in Jump Square in the fall of 2007. This was followed by "Urboe Uroboros" a year later. Nisio Isin, a writer of the Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases book was written by Nisio Isin.
Bakuman, who lived in August 2008 to April 2012, was reunited with Tsugumi Ohba. It was Shueisha's first manga to be released online in several languages before it was released in print outside of Japan and sold over 15 million copies in publication as of May 2014. He drew a manga adaptation of All You Need Is Kill with Rysuke Takeuchi in 2014, based on Yoshitoshi ABe's original cover to the book. He reunited with Nisio Isin for the one-shot "RKD-EK9," which appeared in the December 2014 issue of Jump Square.
Obata continued her work with Nobuaki Enoki to relaunch Enoki's School Judgment: In the first issue of Weekly Shoutout for 2015, a serial was launched by Gakkyu Hotei. However, after the year's 24th issue, the magazine stopped releasing it, and the series ended in the digital Shn Jump+ on May 27. In the English Weekly Shonen Jump, it was serialized in English.
Obata created another series with Ohba from 2015 to 2021. The manga ended on January 4, 2021, starting in the December 2015 issue of Jump Square. By December 2020, the series had over 4.5 million copies in print, and an anime adaptation debuted on television in October 2021. Obata and novelist Akinari Asakura joined together in October 2021 to begin the owarai-themed manga series Show-ha Shoten. Jump Square's November issue was published.
Obata has also done character design work for the video game Castlevania Judgment, as well as illustrating several light novels in addition to his manga illustrations. He created character designs for Madhouse's anime adaptations of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human and Natsume Sseki's Kokoro, both of Osamu Dazai's Aoi Bungaku's Aoi Bungaku's Nu Longer Human and Natsume Sseki's Kokoro, which are both parts of the Aoi Bungaku series. He drew manga manuscripts in Bakuman's 2015 live-action film version that were later released in the Eiga Bakuman. The Takeshi Obata Illustration Works book is a collection of drawings by Takeshi Obata. For the 2016 Death Note: Light Up the New World live action film, he also created a new CGI character. Obata's 2006 art book Blanc et Noir in North America was released on May 3, 2016, but Viz Media in North America republished Obata's 2006 art book Blanc et Noir.
Awards and nominations
- 1985 Tezuka Award for "500 Kōnen no Shinwa"
- 2000 Shogakukan Manga Award for Hikaru no Go
- 2003 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Creative Award for Hikaru no Go
- 2007 Nominated - Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Grand Prize for Death Note
- 2008 Nominated - Angoulême International Comics Festival Official Selection for Death Note
- 2008 Nominated - Eisner Award for Best Penciller/Inker for Death Note
- 2008 Eagle Award for Favourite Manga for Death Note
- 2010 Nominated - Manga Taishō for Bakuman.