In 1985, when he was only 16 years old and still in his first year of high school, Takeru Obata submitted his short comic "The Myth of 500 Light Years" to "Shounen Jump" and won the 30th Tezuka Award. His exquisite paintings and outstanding artistry shocked the entire editorial d

Takeshi Obata - known in the Japanese comics industry as "the genius that only happens once in 10 years in the comics industry". After he became famous at a young age, his career overturned many times. His disciples and disciples all became well-known cartoonists , but he is still unknown in the comics industry.

This embarrassing situation of " a poor teacher and a noble " did not knock him down. He caught up and finally reached the top of the comics industry again with "Soul of Chess" and "Death Note" and became a top-tier cartoonist in the comics industry !

A genius in the comics industry, Takeshi Obata became famous at a young age. He was born in 1969 in Nishibo County, Japan.

In 1985, when was only 16 years old, Takeru Obata, who was still in the first year of high school, submitted his short comic "The Myth of 500 Light Years" to "Shōnen Jump" and won the 30th Tezuka Award. , his exquisite paintings and outstanding painter shocked the entire editorial department . They all marveled at him as "a rare genius in 10 years".

After becoming famous, he lay dormant for 14 years.

Takeru Obata, who became famous at a young age, graduated from high school and entered Tokyo with the dream of becoming a professional cartoonist.

During his adventure in Tokyo, he worked as an assistant for Ryuji Hara (his representative work "Shounen READOM") once. While working as an assistant, he discovered that he was very good at drawing, but his story editing ability was slightly weak.

Subsequently, Obata Takeru came to Niwano Makoto (his representative work "Mashima Hot Drifter") as an assistant . Niwano Makoto was approachable and taught everything he had learned, and Obata was very moved.

Obata Ken also worked as Morita Shinho's assistant . During this period, learned his exquisite, majestic and hard-core painting style .

Until 989, Takeru Obata published the science fiction comic "Super Mechanical Grandpa G" under the pen name of Hijikata Shigeru. However, Obata's poor editing ability made it impossible to maintain the rhythm of serialization. In less than a year, it was hastily completed, and ultimately the response was mediocre.

Between 1990 and 1998, Takeshi Obata successively created works such as "The Great Arabian Demon Wars" ( only has 23 chapters ), "The Legend of Rijin" ( only has 21 chapters ), "Puppet Master Sakon", and other works. Obata even doubted that his ability was over.

The disciples and grandsons who became famous one after another

During the 14 years that Obata was dormant, the ones who worked as Obata's assistants - and Tsuki Nobuhiro , became famous in the comics industry in 1994 with "Swordsman Langshin" . At that time, fans gathered information about Nobuhiro Tsuki and found out that Takeru Obata was the master of the man who drew "Kenshin Drifter"! Another apprentice, Yusuke Murata, also created a famous name in the hot-blooded comics industry with "One Punch Man".

Kentaro Yabuki - The creations of "Black Cat " , "The Princess of the Bag" , "The Phantom Trio" , have reached the peak of popularity with the beautiful appearance and beautiful girls with excellent body proportions in the comics.

Even his disciple - Oda Eiichiro (who worked as Nobuhiro Watsuki's assistant) also began to serialize " One Piece " in 1997, becoming the new generation leader of hot-blooded young comics .

And Takeru Obata also has difficulty maintaining ’s livelihood due to the lack of popularity of his works.

Fight back and reach the top again - "Soul of Chess"

In 1999, a housewife - Yumi Hota , inadvertently changed Takeru Obata's comic life. At that time, "Shounen Jump" held a script writing event. Unexpectedly, a fantasy story about Go written by Hotta Yumi - "Go Soul" was selected.

The editorial department took a fancy to the potential of the work and wanted to find a painter with exquisite paintings, excellent drawing skills, and stable weekly delivery to take over this work. Isn't this a coincidence? Takeru Obata just meets the requirements of .

What no one expected was that the combination of Obata Takeru's painting skills and Hotta Yumi's editing ability was like mints put into Coke, triggering a violent reaction. "Soul of the Game" just started serialization, surpassed apprentice and Tsuki Nobuhiro , behind "One Piece" and " Hunter ", ranked third .

"Soul of Go" set off an unprecedented Go craze in Japan. During the serialization period, the number of Go players in Japan soared by more than 1 million, bringing a lot of fresh blood to the Go world. Up to now, many well-known chess players were inspired by "Soul of Go" to learn Go.

"The Soul of Chess" has been serialized for 5 years. This work is a hit and a hit . The sales of the comic exceeded 26 million copies , and it also won the [ The 45th Shogakukan Manga Award ], [ The 7th Osamu Tezuka Bunka Prize Freshman Award ], [ The 33rd Okura Kishichiro Award in the Go world ], and finally ended with a roar of praise.

Takeshi Obata has also become a comic master who is known to everyone in the Japanese comic circle and .

join forces to create greater glory - "Death Note"

After the completion of "Soul of Chess", Takeru Obata also found a path that suits him, that is, having a super screenwriter + his own super painter = success. So in 2003, the combination of , a super screenwriter [ Oba Tashiri ] + a super painter [ Takeru Obata ], gave birth to .

Ohba thrush brought "Death Note" to Takeru Obata, and the two hit it off. Once "Death Note" was serialized, it set off a craze in Japan.

In 2006, "Death Note" came to an end, and there was news that would be animated into . Now, not only did animation become extremely popular, but it also drove the sales of comics to take off. . Now the sales volume of comics has already exceeded 130 million copies, which really makes "Shounen Jump" laugh so hard!

Obata Takeru regained confidence because of the great sales of this highlight work.

The dedicated Takeru Obata

After the great success of "Death Note", Takeshi Obata has successively launched "Blue Dragon ralΩgrad" , "The King of Explosive Comics " , "Platinum Finale " and other works, which can be said to be the conscience of the industry.

Takeru Obata is well-known for his dedication in the comics industry. Even after his great success, he still did not change his original intention and maintained a delivery volume of 20 pages per week. And every draft is completed with quality and quantity, and is never sloppy.

You must know that the average person only delivers 16-18P of manuscripts per week. Take a look at Togashi Laothief , 's weekly 9P-11P manuscripts , and even stops updating from time to time. It can be seen that Takeru Obata is worthy of the status of [Master Craftsman]!

Summary

Looking at Obata Takeru's comic career, there are who became famous as a teenager and a boy who succeeded ; there are also who were not famous for more than 10 years after entering the industry; and then who fought back and then reached the peak of comics, , with ups and downs for more than 30 years.After Takeshi Obata fell from the peak, he was neither arrogant nor impatient, and worked hard to hone his painting skills; from the bottom to the peak, he maintained his original intention, remained dedicated to comics, and never got carried away. This must be the calm mentality of successful people.