Best non-mainstream mangaka

[Jinoh]

Aye aye,

Best non-mainstream mangaka

Votes for naruto/bleach/one piece/love hina/mahou sensei negima and all the regular mainstream crap are not allowed. YES, TAKE THAT, NO SUPAR POPULAR CRAPS!

This thread is for the lesser known but great mangakas.

CAST OUT YOUR VOTES NOW!

Please enter your top 5. (mangaka author/artist couples not allowed, you need to put in either one of those or both on seperate places)

[jio999]

1.Yuko Osada(Toto! a wonderful adventure)
2.Hideaki Sorachi(Gintama)
3.Matsuena Syun(Historys Strongest Disciple Kenichi)
4.Inoue Takehiko(Vagabond)<----Not sure if this counts ^^
5.Iwashiro Toshiaki(Psyren)<-----Again not sure if this belongs here.

[Jinoh]

1.Yuko Osada(Toto! a wonderful adventure)
2.Hideaki Sorachi(Gintama)
3.Matsuena Syun(Historys Strongest Disciple Kenichi)
4.Inoue Takehiko(Vagabond)<----Not sure if this counts ^^
5.Iwashiro Toshiaki(Psyren)<-----Again not sure if this belongs here.

I'd say Gintama and Vagabond are mainstream.

[RedPan]

1. Souryu Fuyumi (Eternal Sabbath)
2. Yagi Norihiro (Claymore, Angel Densetsu)
3. Ando Keishuu (Ultimate! Hentai Kamen)
4. Hiroyuki (Doujin Work, Funbari no Uta, Gacha Gacha - Capsule, etc.)
5. Kobako Totan (Sketchbook)

[Sangaz]

My kind of poll, hmm, this was very tough, but I'll go with these...
Also, I'll list the manga that imo, they are most known for.

1.Tanaka Yutaka (Ai-ren)
2.Tomochika Miyano (Yubisaki Milk Tea)
3.Kouji Seo (Suzuka)
4.Suzuhito Yasuda (Yozakura Quartet)
5.Shouji Sato (Better known as the brilliant H-artist Inazuma, Illustrator for Highschool of the Dead)

[Arisato-kun]

1. Mizuki Kawashita (I loved every second I read Ichigo 100%.)
2. Soukabe Shuuji (He's writing both the Persona 3 and Persona 4 manga at the same time and both are actually very good.)
3. Kano Yasuhiro (I don't care what anyone says, Mx0 was great!)
4. Yuzuka Morita (Love her character designs in .hack//G.U.+)
5. Kentaro Yabuki (Again for his great character designs in to-Love-ru)

[Archiel]

My kind of poll, hmm, this was very tough, but I'll go with these...
Also, I'll list the manga that imo, they are most known for.

1.Tanaka Yutaka (Ai-ren)
2.Tomochika Miyano (Yubisaki Milk Tea)
3.Kouji Seo (Suzuka)
4.Suzuhito Yasuda (Yozakura Quartet)
5.Shouji Sato (Highschool of the Dead)

Hey...you basically stole my list (well, the first two...) AIIIIIIIII-RENNNNNNNNNNNNNNN


1.Tanaka Yutaka (Ai-ren)
2.Tomochika Miyano (Yubisaki Milk Tea)
3.Inokuma Shinobu (SALAD DAYSSSSSSSSS!!!!)
4.Hokazono Masaya (Girlfriend, artist in Betten Court
5.Tabata Yoshiaki (Story for Akumetsu, Artist is Yugo Yuuki)



Well...I did change a little off the top of my head.

[xioaxioa]

1. Kusunoki Kei(Bitter Virgin)
2. Inoue Kazurou(Ai Kora)
3. Ueshiba Riichi(Mysterious Girlfriend X)
4. Kanō Yasuhiro(MxO)
5. Kobayashi Toshihiko(Pastel)

It was hard trying to find these names.

[MonkeyD.Luffy]

1. Mitsuru Adachi ( with many sport manga )
2. Watanabe Taeko ( Kaze Hikaru, Hajime chan ga ichiban )
3. Rumiko Takahashi ( not Inu Yasha but Ramma1/2 , Lum )
4. Yabuki Kentaro ( Black Cat)
5. Nobuhiro Watsuki ( Rurouni Kenshin and... Oda was an assistant to him ^^ )

[AG]

Hmmmm....

Kyō Kara Ore Wa!! by the author of Cheeky Angel, Hiroyuki Nishimori.

Kinda sucks cause Cheeky Angel got published in the US while KKOW got passed up. IMO Cheeky Angel was REALLY REALLY horrible compared to KKOW but people will never know cause it'll never be available to them. T.T