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The Mangaka category gathers information on the following topics : Manga School, Become Mangaka, Learn to draw manga, Top 10 manga, Manga Art Books, Best Manga, List of Manga Artists, Best manga ever.

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.

Some of the best Mangaka in Japan are :

- Akira Toriyama ( Dragon Ball, Dr. Slump, Blue Dragon, Go!Go! Ackman )
- Katsuhiro Otomo ( Akira, Legend of Mother Sarah, Domu )
- Masakazu Katsura ( Video Girl Ai, I"s, Dna2, Shadow Lady, Wingman, Zetman )
- Osamu Tezuka ( Astro Boy, Kimba the white lion, Metropolis, Black Jack, Buddha )
- Masamune Shirow ( Ghost in the Shell, Appleseed, Orion, Dominion: Tank Police )
- Eiichiro Oda ( One Piece )
- Masashi Kishimoto ( Naruto )
- Rumiko Takahashi ( Ranma ½, Maison Ikkoku, Urusei Yatsura, InuYasha )
- Kazuo Koike ( Crying Freeman, Sanctuary, Lone Wolf and Cub )
- Tetsuo Hara ( Fist of the North Star, Fist of the Blue Sky, Keiji )
- Masami Kurumada ( Saint Seiya )
- Buichi Terasawa ( Cobra Space Adventure, Goku Midnight Eye )
- Tite Kubo ( Zombie Powder, Bleach )

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Mangaka, Informations
Questions of mangaka-editor relations
Shogakukan Inc, one of Japan’s leading publishers, caused a stir after it was hit with a lawsuit in early June by Makoto Raiku, a mangaka whose works have appeared in its weekly Shonen Sunday magazine.
http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2008/7/20/lifebookshelf/1553364&sec=lifebookshelf
Shirley You Jest
"Are you going to dress up?" Now, Comic-Con is a lot of things to a lot of people, but apparently the local media have distorted it to the point where anyone who's heard of it thinks it's some kind of geek costume party. Which in a way it is, but then again...
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/right-turn-only/2008-07-22
Recent Articles
The journey to the safety of Puck's homeland continues, but Guts' nerves are wearing thin under the pressure of staying alive. Against his better judgment, he is taking it all out on Casca, and after being gang-raped by some bandits, she no longer trusts him.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/berserk/gn-23
A deeply Japanese art
A historian documents the evolution of manga art from emakimono to Osamu Tezuka.
http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2008/7/20/lifebookshelf/1553391&sec=lifebookshelf
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