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Which famous Mangaka would you like to see in person v2

My choice would be Ryuta Amazume but most of his manga are strictly for adults. I love his art style and story telling, and I suppose he's not that famous because of the content and the fact that he's relatively new.

So does this thread have something to do with guest possibilities for a convention?

As for very well known mangaka my choices of ones that I've always wanted to meet are Masakazu Katsura, Rumiko Takahashi and Yuu Watase.

Anyway, alas mine can never happen: Osamu Tezuka. He died like two months after I was born so at least I got to spend some time on this planet with his life force even if I was blissfully unaware of it. I remember reading one of the sidebars in Please Save My Earth where Saki Hiwatari mentions that she passed up a chance to meet him, within a year before he died or so, but she thought herself unworthy to meet him and passed it up Sad

But seriously, we're talking about the guy who revolutionized manga to what it is today. He made tons of genres and actually made enough works to make a cast of recurring characters that worked like actors actually work! I could see how some might view his stuff as a real dinosaur, but once you get used to his somewhat dense style, he really did make an awful lot of great manga and of such high quality that the collective of pretty much all mangaka since still haven't caught up to some of his achievements. Tezuka made some of the best manga of all time, even today they still stand up to the test, the works Tezuka did were often timeless, I can't even imagine how he came up with some of his stuff and executed it! His panelling and drawing, especially in his works starting from the 70s or so, is so modern in appearance that it's hard to think how he made that cinematic approach work so flawlessly. And the volume of work he did? Over 150,000 pages, 700 titles (according to my Art of Osamu Tezuka book), and probably thousands of characters. Quantity and quality, now that's the kind of person I want to meet, how could I not?!

Hmm, now for living mangaka? Lemme think about that and get back to you on that one. It'll probably be Fumi Yoshinaga, but I'll come up with some reasons later. Akimi Yoshida would be a nice choice too, hmmm...

I'd like to meet:
Naoko Takeuchi, so I can quiz her on Sailor Moon. I bet she never expected it to become as big as it did.
CLAMP, as I adore everything they've made (some more than others) and it would be wonderful to find out what they're like as people, and how they come up with such amazing fashion designs.

Yuu Watase, as Fushigi Yuugi was one of my gateway drugs into manga and I really love all her work.

Arina Tanemura, as I just really adore her stories and art.
Mitsukazu Mihara, as I'd love to also ask her how she comes up with such amazing fashion designs. Same also applies for Ai Yazawa.

Setona Mizushiro, as I'd love to know how she comes up with such creepy stories. I'd also like to meet Kaori Yuki for that reason.

Also, I'd like to meet Mikiyo Tsuda and Eiki Eiki together. I love the extra comics they put in their books and I'd love to meet them and see how they work together.

classicalzawa wrote everything I wanted to write about Tezuka.
My other choice would be Riyoko Ikeda- women who created shoujo and proved that making comics doesn't dispense from proper research. That's what I've always wanted to ask her: what was her inspiration and how she did amazing research for her every work. Of course I have some questions about particular titles too: what does she think about changes in Oniisama E's anime ending and if Oscar regret that she hadn't finished her "serious talk" with Marie Antoniette.

ken akamatsu and of course osamu tezuka