Objective mangaka tier list based only on art skills and art direction

GOD TIER

Katsuhiro Otomo, Osamu Tezuka, Hayao Miyazaki, Ishinomori Shotaro

HIGH TIER

Akira Toriyama, Takehiko Inoue, Kentaro Miura, Hiroaki Samura, Kazushi Hagiwara, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Masamune Shirow, Naoki Urasawa, Nagai Go, Ishikawa Ken, Jiro Taniguchi, Shigeru Mizuki, Masashi Tanaka, Taiyo Matsumoto, Kaoru Mori

GOOD TIER

Tetsuo Hara, Tsukasa Hojo, Masanori Morita, CLAMP, Itoh Sei, Ryoichi Ikegami, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, Yukito Kishiro, Akihito Tsukushi, Kamome Shirahama, Ken Ishikawa, Kazuhiko Shimamoto, Mamoru Nagano, Kotha Hirano, Kiyohiko Azuma, Kenichi Sonoda, Kosuke Fujishima, Hiroki Endo, Kenji Tsuruta

OK TIER

Junji Ito, Yusuke Murata, Koji Inada, Kazuhiro Fujita, Masashi Kishimoto, Tite Kubo, Hiromu Arakawa, Takeshi Obata, Hiroyuki Takei, Kazuki Takahashi, Kohei Horikoshi, Sui Ishida, Boichi, Masakazu Katsura, Mitsuru Adachi, George Morikawa, Yutedamago, Masasumi Kakizaki, Ryoji Minagawa, Inio Asano, Monkey Punch, Buichi Terasawa, Nakaba Suzuki, Q Hayashida, Nagabe, Ryoko Kui, Norihiro Yagi, Takaya Yoshiki, Usamaru Furuya, Yu Kinutani, Makoto Yukimura, Joji Manabe, Tsutomu Takahashi, Kei Toume, Kentaro Yabuki

LOW TIER

Eiichiro Oda, Yoshihiro Togashi, Hirohiko Araki, Shinichi Sakamoto, Nobuhiro Watsuki, Toru Fujisawa, Tatsuya Egawa, Hitoshi Iwaaki, Suichi Shigeno, Tatsuya Endo, Kengo Hanazawa, Yuki Tabata, Sako Toshio, Naoko Takeuchi, Tsutomu Nihei, Makoto Raiku, Yasuhiro Nightow

SHIT TIER

Hajime Isayama, Tatsuki Fujimoto, ONE, Gege Akutami, Koyoharu Gotouge, Hiroya Oku, Masami Kurumada

HIRO MASHIMA TIER

Hiro Mashima

LOW TIER

Eiichiro Oda

opinion ignored

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OP relly should inclue a picture of their art next to their name since its impossible to know what manga they worked on otherwise

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We've been over this, normalfag

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nice bait bud. really I appreciate your efforts in writing all this and finding a suitable picture

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if you recognize more than 2-3 chink anime directors you need to get a life

you need to get a life

How?

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holy fuck I couldn't name most of those

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Now do one but specifically for animatiom character designers.
You're not a NORMALFAG are you anon? You're read up on anime history right?

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Kill yourself, normalnigger.

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LOW TIER

Eiichiro Oda

that's where he belongs. I cannot stand how a majority of his characters look. And even when it's supposed to be a serious moment, this shit looks silly as hell

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Hackmoto

not low

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Just because they're influential doesn't mean their art is exceptional. Bar Miyazaki, your god-tier picks are incredibly dated.

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Just looking at this post made me sleepy

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Oda's panels are oversaturated with mountains of useless garbage (in dialogue and visuals), his line art is sloppy and he has no sense of panelling.
There's saving grace in the variety of character design, but you're bound to create something of worth in a sea of plastic

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Objective

read more manga

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Might as well just post a fishing rod and call it a day

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araki

low tier

he's one of the few mangaka who's art was on the louvre

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Some Frogshit

Who cares?

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no Leiji

kys Reddit

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Oda is a bad storyteller and average artist who got lucky

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2025 ONE is a better artist than 2025 Murata

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Tsutomu Nihei

LOW TIER

I can't wait to kill you, faggot

Kindly remove yourself from the premises of this board and never in your life express your opinion ever again.

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this is just a list of all the mangaka OP knows generally arranged by who is the most popular.
you gotta branch out beyond shounen manga, OP...

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The bestest most artful manga ever are the Akira movie and Spirited Away (also Astro Boy and Kamen Rider because I've been told those are very influential). OBJECTIVELY.

lol where do these retards get the courage to state their opinions

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Grvke.

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Tsukushi not even on the list..

Kys, faggot.

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Meant to say that Tsuk isn’t on the god tier..

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You can't keep getting lucky in 28 years straight.

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OK TIER

Yusuke Murata

SHIT TIER

ONE

A troll who doesn't even bother to pretend to be a refined contrarian type

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No mention of Oh Great!

Your list sucks as much as your thread.

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Kubo should be in good tier if kishi is in ok.

On Miura's schedule he would have been God tier

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objective

based only on art skills

Junji Ito, Yusuke Murata, Tite Kubo, Miromu Arakawa, and Ryoko Kui are just OK

CLAMP is higher rated at GOOD

The only objective thing here is how bad your taste is.

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It's a crime that Akihito isn't at the very least high tier. He's incredibly talented at creating memorable character designs.

based on art skills and art direction

putting Tsucc 2-tiers down

former artist for Konami who worked on Elebits

master of mechanical drawings and animals with an absurd degree of detail in his backgrounds

colorblind man who uses the number values of color through digital art to produce shit like picrel

master of texture, produces pencil drawings that truly look TOUCHABLE with surfaces (smooth skin on a tummy, fur in an animal, stone, glass, fabric, etc.)

well and truly unique and original with his art direction; like it ACTUALLY stands out

unabashedly infused with a truly WEIRD eros while also being so mindbogglingly beautiful you can't even argue with it

AI bros cannot help themselves from aping his art style, which at least pulls him towards Miyazaki-tier

the sheer level of deliberation that went into Nanachi's character design

the fact that he CASUALLY produces game-tier monster art as throwaway fixtures for the abyss

just "good"

Actually insulting. Tsukushi is objectively one of the best mangaka in the past 2 decades on art ALONE.

Kubo should at least be good tier. He's easily the best artist of the Big 3

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why do isrealis go on anime boards to complain about anime

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high tier

Which tier

dunning krueger, any successful comic artist will recognize oda genius

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looks ok, could probably make it into mid tier at least

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high tier

go nagai

ok tier

horikoshi kohei

Sure, old good new bad anon.

Weekly manga on top of weekly twitter sketches of this quality btw. Most of your high tiers dont even have a proper schedule.

tier list based only on art skills and art direction

no man just no wrong

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I was going to shit on you for not having Toriyama in the highest tier but your list is actually correct and not stupid.

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how is every Anon Babble poster now is some retard who has only read things like Dragonball Z and Made in Abyss?

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Otomo at the top

Basically no pure gekiga artists

Biased much

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normie list

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