Takeshi Obata is a Japanese manga artist that usually works as the illustrator in collaboration with a writer.
13 Facts About Takeshi Obata
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Takeshi Obata first gained international attention for Hikaru no Go with Yumi Hotta, but is better known for Death Note and Bakuman with Tsugumi Ohba.
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Takeshi Obata chose to be a manga artist because he always loved drawing.
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Takeshi Obata's first published manga was in Higashi-Yamanoshita Elementary's school newspaper when he was in the third grade.
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Takeshi Obata originally became noticed in 1985 when he took a prize in the Tezuka Award for his one-shot 500 Konen no Shinwa.
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Takeshi Obata then created Hikaru no Go with Yumi Hotta, which received the 1999 Shogakukan Manga Award and the 2003 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.
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Takeshi Obata served as the artist of Blue Dragon Ral Grad, a manga adaptation of the fantasy video game Blue Dragon, from December 2006 to July 2007.
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Takeshi Obata reunited with Nisio Isin for the one-shot "RKD-EK9", that ran in the December 2014 issue of Jump Square.
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Takeshi Obata followed this by working with Nobuaki Enoki to relaunch Enoki's School Judgment: Gakkyu Hotei digital one-shot as a serial in the first issue of Weekly Shonen Jump for 2015.
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From 2015 to 2021, Takeshi Obata created another series with Ohba called Platinum End.
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Takeshi Obata provided character designs for Madhouse's anime adaptations of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human and Natsume Soseki's Kokoro, which are parts of the Aoi Bungaku series.
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Takeshi Obata drew manga manuscripts seen in the 2015 live-action film adaptation of Bakuman that were later published in the Eiga Bakuman.
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Takeshi Obata designed a new CGI character for the 2016 Death Note: Light Up the New World live-action film.