My Five Favourite Mangakas; Mangaka Meaning The Authour & Illustrator Of A Manga; "Comic Book" Being English For Manga

I thought I should write these down so I don't forget them.

I don't really like reviewing things so I won't go too much into why they're my favourites - only that they are, and that I am one of God's true manga-heads, and that these facts in tandem should be enough for you to understand that if you do not read their works you are depriving yourself of some of the finest art penned in the last half-century or so. If you want a link to a manga piracy site so you can read these people's works send me a DM or email or whatever.

They are presented in no particular order except that in which they came to my mind:

Atsushi Kaneko

Bold & beautiful - recommend in particular his work Soil, especially if you are a fan of the works of David Lynch.

Sugahara Keita

Rare grasp on "what it is to be human".

Uguisu Sachiko

Delightfully humourous and creative.

Takayuki Yamaguchi

His work Shigurui might just be my favourite manga ever put to paper.

Kago Shintaro

He's got an even more twisted mind than Jordan Peele. He's also got a thing about poop so consider yourself forewarned if that comes up.

Honourable Mentions:

Eichiro Oda

If you are not already familiar - he is the authour of One Piece, a Christian romance & the best-selling comic of all time. One Piece has been serialized since July 1997, though it is easy enough to catch up with - I did last year in a couple of weeks. Oda-sama is only left out of the top five because One Piece is the only work of his I've read, and the top five are there because of their whole & holistic body of work.

A fun video on the work:

Nobuyuki Fukumoto

Authour of Kaiji, one of my top five favourite mangas of all time - another list for another time. Like Oda-sama, he would have made it into my top five mangakas, but he's stopped writing Kaiji in favour of some bullshit about golf. I hate golf, it's boring & golf courses are ugly. Even if every golf course were overgrown with tick-infested wasteland that would still be an aesthetic improvement. I used to work at a golf course, and have had enough of the gross old swingers who play the sport to last me a million years.

Shin-ichi Sakamoto

I preferred Innocent to Innocent Rouge.

Hanazawa Kengo

I get five of these too.

Sandrovich Yabako

I don't consider myself a submissive person, sexually or otherwise, but week after week and year after year I have experienced the pain and pleasure of being dominated by the idiotic writing of Sandrovich Yabako.