Goatki Urasawa is truly one hell of a *monster* writer, the level of consistently is just unreal

@dusk.

11 ай бұрын

He really is a 20th Century Boy

@RealmBe

11 ай бұрын

He really isnt talked about enough, just like pluto

@dusk.

11 ай бұрын

@@RealmBe Yeah Billy Bat is amazing too

@excruciatingorgasm9976

11 ай бұрын

Asadora!

@zwryy7622

10 ай бұрын

The ending of 20th Century Boys is fucking shit

Excellent Choice, Naoki’s consistency is unparalleled.

@thatoneguy148

11 ай бұрын

I especially love how he made all of his works around the same time I mean at around one point I’d say late 1993, he admitted to working on 5 manga at the same time no longer than 2 weeks apart YAWARA! Master Keaton HAPPY! Monster And Jigoro, all at the same time. It’s… something so great in my eyes.

Mangaka mentioned in this video: 0 - Kentaro Miura & Eiichiro Oda 1 - Tsutomu Nihei 2 - Shin-ichi Sakamoto 3 - Inio Asano 4 - Tatsuki Fujimoto 5 - Masasumi Kakizaki 6 - Takehiko Inoue 7 - Naoki Urasawa

@andod881

11 ай бұрын

Where is my goat 🐐Gege?

@kachucho872

11 ай бұрын

@@andod881 overrated shonen is still shonen, kid.

@RoachofRivia-bm4nd

11 ай бұрын

​@@kachucho872Shonen is still better than 90 percent of garbage Seinen like Vagabond, Einstein.

@toshinronin

11 ай бұрын

@@kachucho872bro what lol

@venes0297

11 ай бұрын

@@andod881 i mean don't get me wrong, i think JJK is good but it's nowhere near the level of some of these other mangaka's works

Gotta give Samura Hiroaki (Blade of the Immortal, Wave, Listen to Me!, Die Wergelder) some recognition. Extremely underrated in my opinion.

@Sh0yo

10 ай бұрын

Agree, he writes amazing characters and his art is top tier

The fact that Urasawa worked on Monster and 20th CB AT THE SAME TIME. He's a legend.

Great list! The main ones I would add for my list would be Q Hayashida, Hirohiko Araki (if you count the JoJo parts as separate series, but even if not he has other works too), Makoto Yukimura, Taiyo Matsumoto, CLAMP, Chica Umino, and probably Yumi Tamura and Ai Yazawa too (but I haven’t read enough of their works to say for sure). Maybe even Kouji Mori considering he’s going from Holyland now to Berserk (R.I.P Kentaro Miura)

@marrykozakura9352

11 ай бұрын

Kouji Mori may not be the greatest artist in term of drawing but as a writer is pretty good. I like the themes dealt in Suicide Island

@marin9412

11 ай бұрын

I absolutely adore dorohedoro but dai dark hasn’t quite gotten that good yet, so I’ll leave it to the future wether Q Hayashida makes it or not but if it becomes a hit she would be one of my all time fav

@TopShonenRanks

11 ай бұрын

@@marin9412 I would agree that Dai Dark isn’t at that level yet but I think her artwork is still a delight to see in both series, and I do hope that Dai Dark could get at least somewhere close to that level

@cruznahoel678

10 ай бұрын

Love the chica mention 🙌🙌 we love march comes in like a lion

@The_Ajna

10 ай бұрын

Yukimura the goat

I pray we get a 20th century boys adaptation one day.

@AJAY-si2zm

11 ай бұрын

It has

@toshinronin

11 ай бұрын

not everything has to be adapted

@toshinronin

11 ай бұрын

@@AJAY-si2zmproof?

@adamquenano8563

11 ай бұрын

@@toshinronin That’s true, I think this series would work well given how short it is.

@kurosakiichigo234

11 ай бұрын

Now that we are getting a pluto anime, maybe a 20th century boys adaptation is also not far away

I would say my favorite manga Artists is Kentaro Miura R.I.P

@Kai-pu2ix

11 ай бұрын

I would say that for a single piece of work, it would have to be Miura, but Urasawa's consistency and ability to tell a story is unmatched. I mean you know you are good when people consider your newest manga the greatest you have made.

Inio Asano is the ultimate example of "IS THIS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU?! IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED?!"

Now that Bleach TYBW Cour 2 is currently airing, i think a "Depth of Bleachs Lore" video would be amazing, i feel like a ton of ppl are starting to finally appreciate Kubos moments of genius storytelling and foreshadowing. Also, if you haven't read the light novels SAWFY and CFYOW yet i highly recommend checking them out!

Asano is so damm good. Dead dead demons is one of my favorites. All his works got me sitting there thinking about shit.

It's the first ever in my twenty years of life that I write a comment on YT but That's some amazing picks right there. ALthough I haven't yet read some of the manga you mentioned, all of these mangaka deserve the credit you're giving them.

I started manga/anime with shonen (as most of us do), but you convinced me to read Monster. I kid you not that was life changing regarding my world view. That series transformed how viewed people and life. I love Tenma and Johan, but the side characters make the story so vibrant. After that, I was sold on Sienen. Now I’m Volume 10 of Berserk. I can’t wait to read Vagabond next. Thanks for the great content. Keep it up:

@pimplepimp

11 ай бұрын

They're both good

@thomasffrench3639

11 ай бұрын

Don’t give up on Shonen, although there’s more than Battle Shonen, and there’s a lot of amazing stories.

@NinthShinigami

11 ай бұрын

Some of the best shonen that I would say are on par with some of the best of seinen are Rurouni Kenshin, Slam Dunk, Jojo’s Parts 1-6 (7-9 are seinen), Yu Yu Hakusho, Great Teacher Onizuka, D. Gray-man, Fullmetal Alchemist, HUNTERxHUNTER, One Piece, Mob Psycho 100, and for my personal sake, Bleach. Heavily recommend each of them 👍

@bananapeel892

11 ай бұрын

Oh I definitely haven’t. I still love Shonen. I wasn’t trying to say one is better. It’s just that before I was kind of not open to reading seinen manga especially existential stuff, but now I am.

@pimplepimp

11 ай бұрын

@@NinthShinigami and Ippo

I think Yoshihiro Togashi needs an honourable mention. He made one of the best and most influential shounen series of all the time, Yu Yu Hakusho, then went out to make an even better series, Hunter x Hunter.

@terrellsm2522

11 ай бұрын

Hxh is not better than yyh but its pretty close

@samdarsh674

10 ай бұрын

​@@terrellsm2522wait hxh's anime is my favourite anime, now you saying there's better one(manga)????

@terrellsm2522

10 ай бұрын

@@samdarsh674 yuyu hakusho has a anime also and its complete yes yyh is better imo yusuke is one of the best mcs in anime

@samdarsh674

10 ай бұрын

@@terrellsm2522 so which one's better, anime or manga?

@mrzed385

10 ай бұрын

​@@samdarsh674 I would say Anime is better.

I really hope Yawara gets picked up an English release . It's good to see a light hearted story from Urasawa other than murder mystery

love the hollow knight background music

@golanperry5885

11 ай бұрын

i thought i was the only one😂😂😂😂

I remember reading Hideout after you talked about it in one of your videos a while back, scared the shit out of me. So thanks for that.

@The_Sword_saint2.0

11 ай бұрын

You should also read Green Blood and Rainbow; they are other works by the author of Hideout.

@butwhy6543

11 ай бұрын

@@The_Sword_saint2.0 yeah probably will everything I saw from him in this video looked great

Inoue has gotta be my favourite by far vagabond and slam dunk are top 5 manga ever

Takehi inoue is def my fav so far

Takehiko Inoue, Naoki Urasawa, Tite Kubo, ONE, Yoshihiro Togashi, Eichiro Oda, Makoto Yukimura, Yasuhiro Nightow, Hirohiko Araki, Kohei Horikoshi, Masashi Kishimoto, Tatsuki Fujimoto, Inio Asano, Katsuna Hoshino, Junji Ito, Masasumi Kakizaki, Yuki Tabata, and Kentaro Miura all gotta be among my favorites personally (the keyword is personally), I know Inoue would be my favorite among all, Urasawa not far behind 👍 so many talented mangakas out there, too many to list

@angelgomez7081

11 ай бұрын

Great list

@Mohamed-gv1zt

11 ай бұрын

Akutami gege.

@NinthShinigami

11 ай бұрын

@@Mohamed-gv1zt if Jujutsu keeps riding high as it’s mostly been, I can see me putting Gege that high. His action is almost unparalleled. Almost, cause Sakamoto Days does go beyond it imo

@NinthShinigami

11 ай бұрын

@@angelgomez7081 thank you bro 👍

@kachucho872

11 ай бұрын

Bro mentioned kishimoto in the same paragraph as Miura and Urasawa 💀💀💀💀

Dude! I totally agree about the scene in Pluto, that's what really hooked me on the series

My number one is Araki, followed by Urasawa and very closely Asano. Not only they create masterpieces, but they actually make the vibe of the piece so good you can actually feel like the characters (especialy Punpun).

Amazing video and all of the mangaka that you listed are all goated authors& artists who have incredible bodies of work that will always be held high in praise in the anime/manga community 👏👏👏💯.

The mangaka who did Usogui and Batuque seriously needs recognition.Q.hayashida(author of Dorohedoro and Dai dark)is also really great.

@lalithreddy5528

11 ай бұрын

Usogui peak

@ainsley7189

10 ай бұрын

Finally someone said it!. Btw has masked read usogui?

@rayrolle3355

10 ай бұрын

@@ainsley7189 I don't think he did

@TavePremium

2 ай бұрын

Yeah​@@ainsley7189

Your thumbnails never fail to make me play the your videos

amazing list, im familiar with most of the mangaka's mentioned but im definitely gonna check out the rest of the ones on the list🔥

Bro, my speakers work fine for every other youtuber at 40% video at max. I cant hear you on the other side of my bedroom in my silent house at 80%. Might be something to note for future videos. Great work as always though, love your videos i know this one will be a banger as well.

Hiro Mashima is my favourite mangaka, his series aren’t in my top favourites but I enjoy them. But it’s him himself that I like, he currently has 3 manga going, he’s involved in games, in the animes, he has a KZread channel. He’s definitely one of the most productive mangaka.

Def gon check these out

Some of my favourites are Takehiko Inoue, Kafka Asagiri, Ai Yazawa, Yoshihiro Togashi, Makoto Yukimura, Hirohiko Araki, Inio Asano, Hiroya Oku, Kentaro Miura, Yoshiki Nakamura, Haro Aso, Q Hayashida, Eiichiro Oda, Akira Hiramoto, Kiyohiko Azuma, Satoru Noda, Aka Akasaka and Naoki Urasawa plus I'm sure there's many more I love to mention but that's good for now lul

Fun Fact Asano uses actual photo for his photorealistic backgrounds as seen in his Manben Episode (yes that show where Mangaka get filmed by fixed gopros and Urasawa meets the Mangaka to review the footage afterwards and talk about their drawing techniques).

Great vid bro.😺

You deserve so much views and likes and subs

My number 1 will probably always be Nobuyuki Fukumoto. If he'd only written Kaiji that'd be enough to say he's had a great career as a mangaka, but his bibliography goes so much deeper than that. Akagi is a masterclass in character psychology and tension, Strongest Man Kurosawa is a wildly entertaining and surprisingly touching read, and the final arc of Ten had me weeping throughout the entire thing. That's without mentioning his other works, which are usually pretty good as well! An absolute genius who's never gotten a fraction of the appreciation he deserves overseas

@The_Sword_saint2.0

10 ай бұрын

One of my favorite mangaka🗿🤝 Zawa zawa

nice hollow knight music :3

@golanperry5885

11 ай бұрын

i thought i was the only one😂😂😂😂

Actually a very good list! My personal Top5 Mangaka are Oda Eiichiro, Fujimoto Tatsuki, Asano Inio, Urasawa Naoki and Oshimi Shuzo. Glad to see them all in there or at least mentioned, with one exception. The others you mentioned are great, too. Although I never considered them as among my personal favorites or best mangaka, The Climber, RAINBOW, Kingdom and Blame! are all very good. And Slam Dunk is a classic, of course. Haven't actually read Innocent yet. Kinda just forgot about it/overlooked it. Definitely checking that out eventually.

Bro finally reading kingdom!! again thanks goodness 🎉👏

I need Climber in English prints. They’re so beautiful. They just started to release Innocent in English so hopefully Climber is next.

A mangaka i love and rarely see mentioned is Shintaro Kago. The man is insane when it comes to creativity and weirdness to the point where i don't care if his stories are badly written (which is usually my top priority). The pure surealisim combined with his sense of humor and his artistic explorations, that as an artist myself i can't even image how you begin to draw the storyboards of some of his stories... it's just something else. Definitely not for everyone, but i higly recommend him for those few that will appreciate him as much as me.

Really enjoying Choujin X right now. Fully caught up with it. Only manga I'm caught up with is Jojolands, Witch Hat Atelier, Choujin X, and CSM part 2. Have a buddy that owns the whole Punpun collection and gonna borrow that at some point. Fire punch and/or Gachiakuta will be the next series i dive into. Def put ones in this vid on my to-read list.

Some absolute goats mentioned here. All their works have been terrific.

I wanna shout out Masanori Morita too, who's personally my #1 mangaka. His realistic style is super unique, especially when it comes to faces and facial expressions.

My favorite mangaka are Sui Ishida and Naoki Urasawa because they just don’t miss. There are a couple manwha authors that I think are amazing as well. Maybe you can make a video on that as well?

Some of my favourite: Shuzo Oshimi, Inio Asano, Q Hayashida, Somato, Usamaru Furuya, Masasumi Kakizaki, Haro Aso, Non. I'm a sucker for manga dealing with people's psyche and everyday life, real problems, traumas, dark edgy atmosphere preferred.

The body horror of innocent was impeccable

Hey masked, I was just wondering if you’ve ever read oyaji, and if not I promise it will not disappoint you. It takes like an hour to get through but it brought me to tears

I can’t wait for the Pluto anime, it looks like it’s going to be really good. I absolutely love Pluto.

The soundtrack in the background 💯

I read climber like 1~2 months ago, guess I gotta check out his other works

Definitely gonna give Innocent and Innocent Rouge a try now with art like that.

Inoue is a goat man. Bro could've retired comfortably after Slam Dunk but nah he put out banger after banger with Vagabond and Real

Ok, you convinced me. To this day I only watched Monster (which already is enough to agree that Naoki os a genius), but today I'm starting 20th century boys. I know I'm gonna love it, so I'll just say right here. Thank you!

@mr.gamerkabir8142

11 ай бұрын

Just one thing Many say the ending was underwhelming So you can go check out 21 at century boys But regardless of that Those who understand urasawa genius They won't find any trouble with the ending which are 100%ambigious

Yo, I recently started reading Green Blood before seeing this and it got me hooked from the jump.

Kentaro Miura, Sakamoto Shinichi, Inio Asano, Naoki Urusawa and Togashi Yeah there are just too many amazing mangka to name, but these are some of my favourites.

You should check out Naoki Urasawa's Manben series, where he interviews other masterclass mangakas. They also document them in their workplace and their manga making process.

Yeah Urasawa is my goat. He has so many consistent bangers. But inoue and kentaro,Sakamoto, yukimura, Asano are goats and in my top ten.

4:56 Playboi Carti Punpun cameo

Peak Choices Honestly

Speaking of takehiko inoue I just watch the slam dunk slam dunk movie which im pretty sure u already know that he also directed it. And it really brought back "the feels" and makes me wish he continued the story 🔥

Wtf what is that first one. Artwork is just incredible😊

Hollow knight music ? I see ur a man of culture

@golanperry5885

11 ай бұрын

i thought i was the only one😂😂😂😂

Oda is my favorite because One Piece is my favorite, but I'd also nominate Hiromi Arakawa. She's a fantastic writer, and her artstyle is good looking but simple enough to allow her to focus on other aspects, like paneling.

Inoue is the definition of perfection, the are art enthralling and the story telling are so fluent it's flow naturally especially in vagabond which make none the anime studio had the guts to adapted to anime. While urasawa is the master off brilliant story and plot.

I think these mangaka do their own magic in art and storytelling, its like if you read one of them its like whole new world.

and you are a good youtuber

anyone that has both Innocent and Innocent Rouge on their top 10 has my respect off the jump. For fuck sake innocent rouge had a musical for a chapter

@kanishkjaiswal5088

11 ай бұрын

I don't remember, which chapter?

My personal favorites: 1. Taiyou Matsumoto (Sunny, Takemitsuzamurai, Ping Pong, Tokyo Higoro) 2. Mitsuru Adachi (Cross Game, Touch, H2) 2. (tied) Makoto Ojiro (Insomniacs After School, Neko no Otera no Chion-san, Fujiyama-san wa Shishunki) 4. Kozue Amano (Aria) 5. Kiyohiko Azuma (Yotsubato!, Azumanga Daioh) 6. Jirou Taniguchi (A Journal of My Father, A Distant Neighborhood, Inu wo Kau) Honorable mentions: Kazuo Koike/Kojima Goseki (Lone Wolf and Cub) Chuuya Koyama (Space Brothers) Chika Umino (3-gatsu no Lion) Hiromu Arakawa (Fullmetal Alchemist) Fuyumi Souryo (Mars)

@ghostknight4147

11 ай бұрын

I’m glad this list gives me the chance to look at other mangakas I haven’t seen. I’ve heard Aria is very similar to mudachi Kun no Sakai ( my personal sol fav) and was curious if Yotsubato is worth reading (with this list now giving me the encouragement so thx for that)

@Dominic1CH

11 ай бұрын

@@ghostknight4147 If you liked Machida-kun no sekai, I'm sure you'll have a good time with Aria as well. It's the most positive and life-affirming piece of media I've ever read, and it's my favorite manga. Just keep in mind, if you read it online (the physical version is hard to get), that it has 14 volumes, the first 2 named Aqua and the last 12 named Aria (it switched magazines in between). Yotsubato! is great too. The way it depicts childhood is magical, and it's by far the funniest manga I've read. It's also really mature in its writing and understanding of parenthood. It's just a shame that the creator barely releases chapters. I hope you have a good time with them if you decide to check them out.

@Cerenfw3vm

10 ай бұрын

Finally someone who loves Mars

My top 5: 5. Inio Asano 4. Junji Ito 3. Naoki Urasawa 2. Hirohiko Araki 1. Tatsuki Fujimoto

the hollow knight music is a great little touch

@raptor4512

9 ай бұрын

u know which ones playing in the innocent/climber part, i cant remember

I love those mangas read all of them 🫶🏻

Would love a video for dedede read it after finishing punpun and quickly become my favourtite work by Asano

مقطع جميل استمر..... ❤

I really love the 2 or 3 volumes I've read of Dead Dead Demons but idk if I'm ready for PunPun

@marrykozakura9352

11 ай бұрын

No one is really ever ready for Punpun

And The First Slamd Dunk is an Amazing Film, which Inoue wrote and directed, so if you can catch the film in a Cinema go for it, is worth the admission.

Aw man, no Shuzo Oshimi? Happiness Blood on the Tracks Flowers of Evil

My favorite Manga author is Nobuyuki Fukumoto, he's the author for kaiji and Akagi, but has many other series that are simply phenomenal, his art isn't insanely realistic, but the goofiness of the art helps convey the emotions of his characters better than any other manga I've ever read. If you want to read one of his series that isn't a trillion chapters long like kaiji, although that is his best series, I strongly reccomend "the strongest kurosawa" changed my life and is one of the best things I've ever read, and also if you want to read everything he's done, I reccomend learning the rules to riichi mahjong.

@The_Sword_saint2.0

10 ай бұрын

Finally someone mentioned him... such a underrated 🐐 and yeah Kurosawa is peak!!! 🗿🤝 zawa zawa

Jiraishin..Sidooh and skigh high manga...i am surprise you didn't talk about the man behind this works as his works are great

They're all my favourite too❤

Hey so off topic but can you read MONSTRESS. It’s a western comic but it takes a lot from eastern culture. I’m really enjoying it so far. Can you please check it out?

For me my favourite mangaka is Rumiko Takahashi, she is a perfect mangaka. Underrated mangaka for me would be Matsumoto Jiro, his work Freesia is an absolute masterpiece and I’d highly recommend it, especially if you love deep psychological stories that make you think. Also Mochizuki Jun has the best manga of all time under her belt with Pandora Hearts don’t @ me

also important to mention that Urusawa was pretty much always writing at least two, if not three, series simultaneously

I also really enjoy shuzo oshimi works

My favourite is Fujimoto, cause the only thing I love more than manga is cinema, so yeah, the best though it's n°1Urasawa and n°2 Sakamoto, those 2 are beasts

I wish i didnt watch this video before falling asleep, that volume warning woke me up 😂

Hollow knight music fits perfectly in videos like these

Please do a video essay on genre you like to read in manga and manwha 👘🤟🦖🦖👹🔥😊😅😮😢🎉😂

Dead ass, how has this man have not mentioned, or even heard of vampire Hunter D?? Blows my mind

NIHEI!!! YEAH!! also Q-Hayashida! she is great!!

I recommend to check out Kazuhiro Fujita

To me holyland and climber are my favorite mangas

urasawas art is so good it’s my favorite

It seems that he weaves stories similar to Osamu Tezuka, with his secondary characters very tangible, instead of seeming like an extra and disposable NPC. You read it and it's as if that universe were alive.

super new to the mangaka space. flirted with the reading off and on growing up, my biggest issue is remembering the material, anyone struggle with that?

7:43 Golgo 13 currently holds the title of highest selling Seinen manga with approximately 300 million dollars in sales

Adadora is great . You should check it out.

Just to let ya know, Urasawa wrote and drew two series simultaneously for almost 20 years, and at one point, was doing 20th Century Boys and Monster and later Pluto at the same time..which is unheard of

Imma be real man, when is that manga you been working on gonna release new chapters. I NEED THAT SPAIN LIKE SETTING MAN

One day, I'll be able to muster up the courage to read punpun One day I would

just started innocent, seems like it could be great

4:57 bro tried sneaking in cheef keith from rap and thought we wouldn't notice 😹