>Great manga artists were the topic of Charapedia’s latest fan poll! 10,000 fans participating in the poll and voted for a variety of modern and retro artists. A majority of the artists chosen worked on shounen manga, but there are a couple of seinen and josei artists.
>Here are the top 20 choices!
1. Hideaki Sorachi – Gintama (773 votes)
2. Eiichiro Oda – One Piece (549 votes)
3. Sui Ishida – Tokyo Ghoul (539 votes)
4. Haruichi Furudate – Haikyuu!! (516 votes)
5. Yana Toboso – Black Butler (389 votes)
6. Gosho Aoyama – Detective Conan (375 votes)
7. Masashi Kishimoto – Naruto (373 votes)
8. Hiromu Arakawa – FMA (316 votes)
9. Hiro Mashima – Fairy Tail (285 votes)
10. Hajime Isayama – SnK (254 votes)
11. Harukawa35 – Bungou Stray Dogs (236 votes)
12. Yoshihiro Togashi – Hunter x Hunter (230 votes)
13. Hirohiko Araki – JoJo (228 votes)
14. Kouhei Horikoshi – Boku no Hero Academia (218 votes)
15. Rumiko Takahashi – InuYasha (194 votes)
16. Akira Toriyama – Dragon Ball (187 votes)
17. Kazuya Minekura – Saiyuki (147 votes)
18. Suzuki Nakaba – Nanatsu no Taizai (145 votes)
19. Yuki Midorikawa – Natsume’s Book of Friends (135 votes)
20. Akira Amano – Reborn! (129 votes)
http://www.charapedia.jp/research/0165/
I can't even remotely begin to comprehend how this list came to be. It looks like a popularity contest to some extent, and at the same time it doesn't.
>>159443390
Fujoshis were a mistake
Akira Amano should be higher
>10. Hajime Isayama – SnK (254 votes)
?
His art looks like shit
You can really tell the sample demographic of this poll is mainly composed of females.
Which surprises me since I don't think females would be interested in One Piece given the art style but somehow it came out as number 2.
>>159443390
>
>>159443390
Give Gorilla a golden banana
>>159443390
>9. Hiro Mashima – Fairy Tail (285 votes)
>10. Hajime Isayama – SnK (254 votes)
lol
Sasuga Horikoshi
>>159443602
>It looks like a popularity contest to some extent
It's a fan vote, what else would it be?
>>159443390
>12. Yoshihiro Togashi – Hunter x Hunter (230 votes)
>above all of those
How?
>>159443602
It's basically like looking at the most played music on last.fm.
>>159443390
>Best Manga Artist
No, this is a popularity contest for shounenfags and fujoshits
>>159443390
>no Kentaro Miura
Shit Taste Tbh
The fuck is this list?
No Miura
No Takehiko Inoue
>Oda being above some of those people
This is shit. I love Gintama but the art is just okay or barely above okay. One Piece art is pretty shitty.
>the one from Mahou Tsukai No Yome
>Miura
>the one from Promised Neverland
>Murata
etc, any of them is better
Fucking O!G should even be on the list
>>159443390
>12. togashi
Shouldn't even be in top 100 tbqh.
>>159443390
Well, since this list is bullshit, post your own. Can't be arsed to list 20 though.
1. Masanori Morita
2. Tetsuo Hara
3. Goseki Kojima
4. Ryoichi Ikegami
5. Takehiko Inoue
6. Katsuhiro Otomo
7. Kentaro Muira
8. Takashi Tsutomu
9. Hirohiko Araki
10. Yuusuke Murata
Might consider putting Takayuki Yamaguchi, Takeshi Obata, Akira Toriyama, Ken Ishikawa, Go Nagai and Tetsuya Chiba in some order after those lot.
>>159443390
>Be japan
>127 millions of japs
>Shitty poll whit 10000 suckers
That is relevant
>>159444236
Don't cherry pick you faggot.
When he isn't on a pain binge his art is better than some there. Its better than OP and Gintama for sure
>>159443390
>No Miura
>No Inoue
>No Murata
>Togashi and Oda even making the list
Japan has gone full retard.
>>159444236
that chapter is purposefully drawn in that style. obviously he can be a lazy shit and this list is horrible in the first place, but him not being able to draw is a meme
>>159443390
>not a single Inoue or Urasawa manga
>no Adachi manga
>no Ashita no Joe
>no Giants
>no Rose of Versailles
This is fake news.
Oh man, I'm gonna enjoy all the salt from this ranking list.
>>159444139
There it is. Well deserved.
>>159443390
>Tokyo Ghoul
Are you fucking serious
>>159443390
>no murata
IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT ART, PEOPLE. IT'S ABOUT THE WHOLE PACKAGE: ART, WRITING, DESIGN, ETC.
The list elected mangakas, not just illustrators. Stop talking only about drawing skills.
>>159444299
>Oda NOT making it
Say what you will about One Piece, it's pretty amazing that he's been drawing it for all those years with barely any breaks and the quality hasn't taken a nosedive like the vast, vaast majority of other long-running series.
>>159443750
This is what threw me off.
Even Isayama admits his art is terrible.
>>159444246
>muh realistic art
>>159443390
>Yuki Midorikawa
Nice.
>>159444281
>>159444300
>pain binge
You mean when he's being a lazy fuck. Why should he be considered a good artist when he doesn't even put effort into his work? Stop sucking his cock.
>>159444354
>the quality hasn't taken a nosedive
Ha ha oh wow
>>159444340
The word "artists" is in the poll's title for a reason you dip. Not mangaka or manga authors. Manga artists.
>>159444340
This.
>>159444340
Somehow that makes the list even worse than if it was just about art. It's like the japs have never even read manga before.
>>159444404
Do you know what a nosedive is, fucktard?
See: Naruto and Bleach for obvious examples
>muh JoJo
>>159444340
That makes Isayama being up there even worse.
>>159444236
>>159443975
Only people who genuinely have no fucking clue about art think Togashi is bad at it. Even the best artists can be lazy (or physically incapable due to health) and publish a scribble on occasion, but only good comic artists have his grasp of composition and flow. His technical skill is good too, it's not like anyone has criticisms about his anatomy or perspective or anything like that. People just see low effort first drafts and think it's bad because it doesn't look like Berserk.
>>159443390
>No Tezuka or Fujiko F. Fujio
Complete trash
>>159444473
You can stop riding his dick at any moment
>>159444430
>every female character he draws is now a Nami clone, a Robin clone, a template, or a landwhale
>every other male character he draws is now a top heavy figure that looks like an upside down teardrop from a distance
>backgrounds are a mess
>crowds are a mess
You keep telling yourself that Wan Pissfag
>>159444404
>The word "artists" is in the poll's title for a reason you dip. Not mangaka or manga authors. Manga artists.
What? A writer is also an artist. A singer is also an artist. Art does not only correspond to the plastic part.
Plus: in the original poll it is written "mangaka".
This is just a fucking list of manga in order of popularity.
>>159444501
O MY NON ARGUMENT
>>159443390
>3. Sui Ishida – Tokyo Ghoul (539 votes)
TOP KEK
>>159444404
>>159444525
*plastic and visual part
>>159444473
The fuck, now that's some dicksucking.
>>159443390
>3. Sui Ishida
gintama is fucking trash
draw something else untalented fucking gorilla faggot
>>159443390
>no Miura
/v/eddit blown the FUCK out
>>159443923
>mashima
>bad art
>>159444246
1-Inoue
2-Mikazuki
3-Toriyama
4-Rumiko
5-Araki
6-FKMT
7-Sorachi
8-Ninomiya (Nodame)
9- ObahXObata
10-Murata
11-Miura
12-Hirano
13-Azuma
14-Iwaaki
15-Fujita
>>159444246
Any list that doesn't have Masanori Morita in the top 5 at least is immediately not worth looking at
Too many people credit artists who put out a lot of mediocre or shit work just because their best stuff is amazing, but Morita was always consistent for like thirty years of serializations and always top notch in his spreads and covers
>>159444525
>A writer is also an artist. A singer is also an artist
>semantics
This is /a/, not /lit/ or /mu/
>>159444651
This. I hope that trash ends already. It's the only filth left tainting Jump.
>>159444354
Uh, the quality has taken a huge nosedive, as a huge One Piece fan who still follows the series, I can assure you I do not read it for the art, if I didn't love the series, I couldn't even recommend it to anyone for its current art
The years of amazing stuff was already hundreds of chapters ago
>>159444778
>huge nosedive
This is a hyperbole and you know it.
Decline? Yes. Huge nosedive decline? No.
>>159444745
Of course, because /a/nimes and m/a/ngas have no soundtrack and no plot.
>>159444778
> huge nosedive
nigag
>>159443390
This is absolutely fucking terrible.
>>159444404
>The word "artists" is in the poll's title for a reason you dip. Not mangaka
No, it literally says mangaka. Blame OP or whatever English source he got this from.
>>159444246
Bkub > all
>>159444509
The poll is about "mangaka" as a whole, not just their quality as an artist. The English headline translated "mangaka" as "manga artist" which is half of what a mangaka is.
Though, knowing the nature of your post you will most definitely post something like "HURRR THE STORY IS SHIT TOO WAN PISS FAG" because you have decided to just blindly shit on it no matter what.
>>159443390
The Japanese have shit taste
This list is just awful
>>159443390
3. Sui Ishida – Tokyo Ghoul (539 votes)
9. Hiro Mashima – Fairy Tail (285 votes)
12. Yoshihiro Togashi – Hunter x Hunter (230 votes)
SASUGA NIPS
There may be a masterpiece among manga which is not translated.
If Sangoku Hiroko's work has been translated...
If Suzuki sensei has been translated...
>>159444281
Not a chance. Togashi in his prime doesn't even approach Oda in his prime. Oda is heavily stylized but he's a fantastic artist overall and not just in technical ability but with composition, balance, flow he's very good.
>>159444691
>Mikazuki
Who?
>>159444716
Moirta is the undisputed GOAT. People need to realise this. There's almost nothing that any manga artists can do that much better than him.
Not surprising since he was the assistant to the former GOAT Tetsuo Hara.
>>159445087
Even if that is the case, that list is still total fucking shit. No one in their right minds would say Gintama is the best manga of all time in terms of anything, art, story, comedy, whatever.
>>159445107
Damn, hope that bitch returns soon, only that panel made my dick rock hard
>>159445196
>No one in their right minds would say Gintama is the best manga of all time in terms of anything, art, story, comedy, whatever.
B-b-but it's #1 on MAL!
Is this one of those jokes where people filled the number one spot with a joke vote. The gintama manga looks so bad, comparatively speaking.
>>159443390
>3. Sui Ishida – Tokyo Ghoul (539 votes)
Sasuga nips.
Two nukes.
>>159445246
Joking and trolling aside, what is wrong with these people. Is it that they have only read 4 or so manga in their lives, or they just highly rate everything they read. Or maybe people have a hard time differentiating their favourite manga from an 'objective' opinion about what the best manga ever is. For example, Fist of the North STar is my favourite manga of all time by miles, but I don't think it's the best manga ever made (but it is up there).
It's also sad that this list didn't appreciate Hara's incredible art. How the fuck did someone put out shit like this on a weekly basis.
>>159443390
>no bleach
>no kengan ashura
>>159445196
Anon, I see you flipping out over Morita all the time, and it's great that you like him so much and all, but let's not start with this "he's the best at everything, everyone needs to understand that!" shit. He couldn't do Blame, he couldn't do Takemitsu Zamurai, he couldn't do BotI, etc. He's excellent at what he does, but he's not some sort of master-of-all-trades superman.
>>159443390
>>159445706
Not that guy but to be fair, none of those people could do what he does either
Obviously, you can't objectively rate artists because they all do different stuff but Morita does have the quality, quantity and consistency that is pretty much impossible to find in manga, there's people who will be better than him at all three but you'll struggle to find someone better at all three put together
>>159446285
Would that shading have been done with charcoal or ink wash, or something else?
>>159443390
>3. Sui Ishida – Tokyo Ghoul (539 votes)
>>159446553
>Filename
>>159446460
>to be fair, none of those people could do what he does either
I agree. What I'm taking issue with isn't that he likes Morita the most, it's the hyperbolic way he's playing him up with "There's almost nothing that any manga artists can do that much better than him," which is just not true.
>>159444246
Where is Samura?
>>159443390
murata..?
>>159443602
>at the same time it doesn't
What part of this doesn't look like a popularity contest to you?
>>159443875
No one likes a lazy piece of shit. I don't know how on god's green earth togashi got on this list. His work ethic sucks ass.
>>159443390
damn i hate when people talk about bad art when they cant even draw a damn circle
>>159446553
>Lets make the whole ccg retarded so eto can give her conference
>Lets bring back shachi to kill him in one chapter
>Lets make kirishitmas do a retarded plan to raid cochlea at the exact same time (pottery) that kaneki is doing his move
>lets activate kirishitmas plot armor and get them live through everything and put every chapter a cliffhanger of them looking like they die when its obvious they didnt
>Lets kill arima already
>Lets make furuta le zany clown final boss.
>Lets hide´d eto from the story so she doesnt steal the protagonism from touka so she can have her arc until its convenient for her to return with le epik cliffhanger.
>Lets make kaneki a massive betalord
>Lets switch to secondary characters no one cares about for 30 chapters
>Lets make tatara and houji have a shitty anticlimatic death after 200 chapters of hyping up the battle.
>Lets make trap oneshot takizawa by kicking him in the balls.
>Lets offscreen all the washuus
>Lets bring back amon after 200 chapters to job like a madman and hide´d him like eto for the epik cliffhanger.
>Lets make ccg retarded again so they follow furuta plan
>Lets make kaneki be the one eyed king. Surprise, he literally does nothing.
>Lets make everyone including naki to suck kaneki dick
>Lets make a whole arc to save akira
>Lets make matsuri gay and also kill him for the lulz.
>Epik amon coming back cliffhanger no one expected.
>Muh emptyness+shipperfaging talks for 10 chapters.
>Amon and kaneki 250 chapters awaited conversation, its literal shit.
>Amon fucks akira and fucks off.
>Takizawa, one of the few interesting characters left fucks off too.
>Le touka romance: Confesion in 122, kiss in 124, sex in 125 pregnancy in 130s. Totally not rushed.
>Baby drama shit
>Another lets save one human arc, kaneki risking his own life as the one eyed king and also having cancer and not fixing it while literally in the previous arc everyone said "kaneki ur the king you cant die because you are important to ghouls".
>>159447186
You forgot this fucking shit
>>159443390
Fucking gross.
>>159443390
This is literally just a popularity poll.
>>159445639
>Is it that they have only read 4 or so manga in their lives
it's this for the most part. you can go to most of their accounts and see they have like 59 anime completed yet 300 forum posts. they don't like manga or anime, they just like pretending they like it.
>>159448000
so.
>>159448161
Which means the poll means nothing because it's shit we already knew and from an even smaller sample size.
>>159448198
so.
One Piece's art is utter crap and nothing you say will change this basic fact
>>159448258
kill yourself retard
The sad thing is most people on /a/ don't even know 20 manga artists.
>giving a fuck about popularity contests
>>159448341
You only need to know of exactly 5 since everyone else is irrelevant
Togashi, Hori, Kishimoto, Oda, and Kubo
>>159448512
>Hori
Who
>>159448512
Just the kind of thing a newfag would say.
>>159448554
Kohei Horikoshi, you uncultured plebeian.
>>159448575
Prove me wrong.
>>159448269
You can say it all you want doesn't make it true.
>>159448620
I don't have to since all you know are those five. It would be like talking to an infant.
>>159443390
>want to make a poll to rank something that requires a minimum level of knowledge in the craft to analyze, like drawing skill
>make it public for anyone to vote in
Every time
>>159447186
>>159447425
>tfw reading the post and remembering all that fucking crap we have got nonstop since fucking february of 2016
>>159448713
not an argument
>>159443390
3. Sui Ishida – Tokyo Ghoul (539 votes)
The art in part1 of TG was dope but man it went to shit in :re. Some panels look like Togashi tier scribbles.
Fucking nips.
>>159443390
>3. Sui Ishida – Tokyo Ghoul (539 votes)
Y-you too
>No Muira, Inoue, Yukimura, or Murata who managed to make those new shitty Power Rangers suits look good
What the fuck is this list
>>159449094
>>159448890
>>159448746
It's not an art list, OP is wrong, read the thread. It's still shit, though.
>>159449094
It's a popularity contest.
>>159449132
>>159449175
Wrong.
>>159443390
>fujoshits spamming polls again
>Mashima above Nakaba
>Mashima in top 20 ever
jesus fuck japan
>>159443390
The hell is wrong with elevens?
>>159445182
fuck me and my Dyslexia
Mizukami
Fairy Tail? Above My Hero Academia?
Gintama's anime is better than the manga, but Gintama's great so I don't mind, even if there are better manga out there (like JoJo).
>>159443390
>3. Sui Ishida
>Akira Amano Top 20
>Hiro Mashima anywhere within a Solar System length of a Best Manga Artists list
Fuck
Why is this allowed
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahdddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAADDDDDDDDDDFJUIHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>>159448000
Welcome to polling as a whole.
ONE is a better artist than Miura. Only pseudo-technical babbies who know nothing about art will disagree.
>>159448981
Why don't people give as much shit to Inoue for being lazy as they do Miura or Togashi? His hiatus bullshit is as bad as them.
>>159443390
>Sui Ishida at the top 3
At least they have some good taste
>>159452869
>This goddamn list
Fujobait was a mistake.
>>159443390
You guys realise this is an actual honest poll where the best is an endearing fun gorilla that mocks most tropes but is loyal to the fundation of a basic shonen manga. For first time I am fine with him winning because artist is not equal to drawing "realistic" or giving more shadows but a balance between drawing skills, plot, character development, characterization, and so. When Sorachi is not perfect in one is better in other, that's balance. That's an artist.
>>159452869
>>159453112
Dude, it's just a "favourite mangaka" poll, don't read too much into it, it has nothing to do with "art".
>>159453216
Man, art is not about a skill's test in an art college, that's why I think this is an interesting poll.
>>159444404
>The word "artists" is in the poll's title for a reason you dip. Not mangaka or manga authors.
nigga what
>好きな漫画家ランキング2017 TOP20!
>漫画家
>>159452869
>>159453345
Anon, cam you explain it a little? I don't get the butthurt of many anons here. Even more when Sorachi is first but a lot are complaining more about their fave not being in the list.
>>159444726
>>159444463
And Mashima.
>Manga is about drawing skills!
wew lad
>>159443785
OP has like 60% female readership.
>>159452542
Because his biggest work is completed, as much as people love Vagabond and Real, they are not the works he will be best remembered for
>>159443390
Is this really best artist? Seems more like best writers in general as a combo of story telling and art. Sorachi's art is ok at best but his one shot chapters can really get emotional in just 18 pages.
>ctrl f
>Shoku
>No results
>Saeki Shun
>No results
>Tosh
>No results
what the fuck??
>>159443785
>I don't think females would be interested in x given the art style
You know jack shit
Im a female and love 3/4 of the mangakas on that list
>>159443390
>7. Masashi Kishimoto – Naruto (373 votes)
>8. Hiromu Arakawa – FMA (316 votes)
>Nippon in charge of taste
>>159443390
>Araki
Well 1 outta 20 ain't bad I guess.
Toriyama was on another level
Shit this ain't that much of a highlight
>>159456212
this is bait
>>159443390
Why would they leave Tite Kubo & Bleach out?
Is this like not even putting the best in the poll just to give everyone else a chance or because it ended?
>>159443390
Gintama, One Piece, and Haikyuu art are nothing special. Haikyuu and One Piece are especially wonky.
SnK is a fucking joke. That art is so shit it's difficult to tell characters apart or what the fuck is going on most of the time.
Yana Toboso is probably the most aesthetically pleasing art on that list.
Man, I didn't see such a shitstorm in here since a while ago
>>159458378
Toboso's art has developed to be breathtakingly beautiful.
Unfortunately she can't let it be nice on its own without shoehorning in her degenerate fetishes at every opportunity. Also she can't write in the first place.
Thread theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6120QOlsfU
>>159458468
>150 posts in seven hours
>shitstorm
What the hell are you even saying?
>>159444446
But annon JoJo is good.
>>159443390
>Gorilla working the OP drones
>tfw nobody in this thread has even mentioned your favorite manga artist
>>159443673
How so? Her art is shit tier.
>togashi above toriyama
Huh.
Well, the description in the actual link is mangaka (漫画家), so there's that. That's the only reason I can imagine Miura or Murata wouldn't be there
>>159459966
SEETHING
>>159459693
You're shit tier
Gintama always does very well on internet polls. Its fanbase must be very active on internet
>>159462467
It's a very cultish fanbase, I used to consider it the best manga I'd read myself but that was quite a while ago, I'll probably have a new appreciation for it when it finally ends in a couple months and I can go reread the stuff when it was actually funny and heartfelt and not just tying up plot points
Look, Gintama is my favorite Jump series of all time but being Number 1 in art is fucking laughable.
The Gintama style has a long history of wig syndrome with characters looking exactly the same aside from their hair and even Sorachi has acknowledged/made fun of this fact.
I would give it to One Piece simply because even if it might be weird/ugly, it rarely fails to be interesting to look at.
>>159462934
I want to clarify that I personally don't find OP's art to be ugly or weird, but that it's a common complaint I've seen over the years.
>>159462934
Again, this is a poll for best mangaka, not best artist. That translation is wrong.
Bruh, where's Junji Ito? I've never been genuinely frightened by a MANGA, Until I found this man's work.
>>159463056
>I've never been genuinely frightened by a MANGA, Until I found this man's work.
>Until I found this man's work
He's by far the most famous horror mangaka in the West, so if you hadn't read his work then I doubt you were reading much that was supposed to be scary.
>>159463031
In Gintama's case that makes more sense but some of the names in that list have no place being there, pretty messed up.
>Hiro Mashima being higher than Araki, Hori or Toriyama
What in the fuck, I liked FT when it was One Piece with magic but that shit fell apart so fast and just became fan servicey trash.
Still makes me angry.
>>159444326
he's good
>>159463158
The list in general makes no sense, it's mostly just a bunch of casuals listing whoever wrote their favorite of the ten weekly shounen they've read. Don't put too much thought into it.
>>159463168
Only when he wants to.
>20. Akira Amano – Reborn! (129 votes)
Now I know this poll is a hack, Reborn is just full of fujopandering (not surprised since the mangaka is a woman)
>>159443390
those votes dont sum up to 10k, nor are in an amount remotely relevant
>>159464389
>Here are the top 20 choices!
Of course they don't sum up to 10K, anon, that's not all of them.
>>159443390
>Yuki Midorikawa
Okay these people are just voting for manga they like.
>>159465174
Read the fucking thread.
>>159443750
He makes up for GOAT storytelling and worldbuilding though
>>159448432
>Samura - Blade of the Immortal
I'm SO fucking mad right now
this literally proves Japan has shit taste, in their own fucking country they overlook greatness
Happy my boy gosho got in.
>>159452869
>>159444363
It's not terrible. It's just slightly above average.