Yumi Hotta

Yumi Hotta is the scriptwriter of Hikaru no go. She was born in 1954 and she is married with Kiyonari Hotta, who is himself an author of mangas (especially on horse races). By the way, she often works with him. Following a contest organized by the Shûeisha editions, she wrote her first real scenario which was called Kokonotsu no Hoshi before becoming Hikaru no go . Then she took an associate, Takeshi Obata, to the drawings. Hikaru no go quickly becomes a success. In 2000, she wins moreover the award Shogakukan for this series. The scenario highly coherent of Hikaru no go that she has written, her attaching, and not too Manichean, characters are the reasons of the success of this manga.

She plays go herself, but at a modest level. So Yukari Umezawa, go professional, helps her for the technical details. Hikaru no go finished, she begins a new series untitled: Yuuto on speed skating.

- YUUTO -

Authors : Yumi Hotta, Kei Kawano

Date of publication : 2005

Number of books : Actually 3

Genre : Sport

Animated series : No

Summaries: A boy named Yuuto Seo moves from Hokkaido, where he's lived all his life, to Tokyo. He first fears he must give up speed skating, his hobby, but he soon finds places to skate and people to skate with.

In USA : Not published yet.

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Takeshi Obata

Takeshi Obata is the drawer of Hikaru no go. He was born on February, 11th, in 1969. Before drawing Hikaru no go , , he had made a few mangas which had a limited success, especially Rampou (Arabian majin bokentan lamp lamp in japanese) and Cyborg Jî Chan G which will only be published following the success of Hikaru no go. He quickly realised he drew better than he wrote and so he becomes partner with Yumi Hotta to realize Hikaru no go
	The quality of the drawings is undeniably one of the keys of the manga's success. Indeed he has a realist style, and he cares about doing details well (He likes lingering over usual objects; the characters change their clothes every day, have their own look and they age during the manga…) and the decors are very stunning, which allow the lectors to come into the history. By the way, more of a quarter of the boxes of the manga is composed of three successive plans. The places where the characters of Hikaru no go move, are more often inspired of real places. The Nihon ki-in, for example, has been drowning exactly. Obata has made hundreds photos to realise his pictures. He also draws following the principle: an idea = a picture. He passes around ten hours to realise a covers (colours).
Hikaru no go finished, he draws now a new success series: Death Note which I really recommend to everyone!!! To more information, read his interview in the 18th volume.

- CYBORG G-CHAN -

Authors : Takeshi Obata

Date of publication : 1989

Number of books : 31 (Finished)

Genre : Gags, humour

Animated series : ?

Summaries : It's the story of an old cyborg grand-father.

In USA : Not published yet

- DETEKITEOKUREI ! SHUTARO KUN -

Authors : Takeshi Obata

Date of publication :

Number of books : 1 (Finished)

Genre : ?

Animated series : ?

In USA : Not published yet

- ARABIAN MAJIN BOKENTAN LAMP LAMP -

Authors : Susumu Sendo, Takeshi Obata

Date of publication : 1992

Number of books : 3 (Finished)

Genre : Fantastic, adventure

Animated series : ?

Summaries : In this world, the djinns dominate and controlled the human beings. In order to save their countries, Toto and Loukir raised the seals of the centenary prison of the nice Rampou genius. They just did it when the village of Louse was threatened by a djinn. Rampou destroyed the djinn thanks to his ultimate Zahrma punch attack, and fell in love with Leila, Louse's big sister. But Dogramagul, the lord of the evil and Master of all the djinns, kidnapped Leila. He puts her a magic necklace of which he withdraws gems. The necklace becomes animated and poisons Leila gradually. To save her, Rampou must fight djinns increasingly powerful and recover the gems.

In USA : Not published yet

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- MUGEN DOUSHI - DREAM MASTER -

Authors : Takeshi Obata

Date of publication :

Number of books : 1 (Finished)

Genre : ?

Animated series : ?

In USA : Not published yet

- CHIKARABITO DENSETSU - ONI WO TSUGU HITO -

Authors : Miyazaki Masaru , Hikari Shoukai, Takeshi Obata

Date of publication : 1992-93

Number of books : 3 (Finished)

Genre : ?

Animated series : ?

In USA : Not published yet

- KAKAKURI ZOUSHI AYATSURI SAKON -

Author : Sharakumaro, Takeshi Obata

Date of publication : 1995-1996

Number of books : 4 (Finished)

Genre : Adventure

Animated series : Oui

Summaries : Tachibana Sakon is the grandson of Zaemon, a Bunraku master. (Bunraku is the traditional and deeply honoured puppetry style in Japan.) Sakon has been studying Bunraku ever since he was a child and has bonded strangely with a puppet named Ukon, passed down through his family. Sakon uses his mastery of puppetry as well as ventriloquism to bring Ukon to life. Often it seems that Ukon has a life and spirit of his own. This is evident most in their different personalities. Ukon is very brash and open, whereas Sakon is reserved.
So what do a gorgeous young puppeteer and a loudmouth puppet do all day? They wander the Japanese countryside and solve murder mysteries!

In USA : Not published yet

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Websites : Clockwork Voices

- LUST FOR LIFE -

Authors : Shoji Tajima, Hiroyuki Asada, Takeshi Obata

Date of publication : 2002

Number of books : 1 (Finished)

Genre : ?

Animated series : ?

Summaries : It is for the anthology "Adidas Manga fever" that this manga was drawn. The topic was: the manga in the everyday life.

In USA : Not published yet

- HAJIME -

Authors : Otsoichi, Takeshi Obata

Date of publication : 2003

Number of books : 1 (Finished)

Genre : ?

Animated series : ?

In USA : Not published yet

- DEATH NOTE -

Authors : Tsugumi Ooba, Takeshi Obata

Date of publication : 2004-2006

Number of books : 12 (Finished)

Genre : Policier, Surnaturel, Suspens

Animated series : Bientôt

Summaries : A God of Death (Shinigami) has let fall his Death Note (copybook) on Earth. It serves him to write the name of people he wants to kill. A human, Raito (or Light), gifted and clever young man, takes it and, reading the instructions it contains, learns all the power of this famous Death Note. He tries the experience on criminals he sees on T.V. and, to his surprise: they die. The God of the Death, who can't forgive his obligations, has to go until death with his human who wants to be Kira, a kind of Justice's God.

In USA : The manga is actually published in USA

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Websites : Death Note France , Death Note Fr