Manga Artist (Mangaka)
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About this archive
Comics authorship in the Japanese tradition usually means one person handling both story and art, sometimes with assistants on backgrounds and finishing, and sometimes paired with a separate writer. The work is serialised: chapters appear at a fixed interval in a magazine or on a digital platform, are collected into volumes, and only then, if they succeed, attract offers to adapt.
BL and GL have a long publishing history in this form, with dedicated magazines, labels and a self published scene that has fed professional careers for decades. Because a comic is complete and its visual language already set, an adaptation into animation, live action or audio inherits far more than a novel adaptation does: panel compositions, character designs and pacing are frequently carried across directly, and artists are sometimes credited on the adaptation as original creator or supervisor.
For anyone tracing a career, this credit marks the origin point of a work rather than a stage in its production. It also tends to be the most durable. A series can be adapted more than once, across different media and decades apart, while the comic remains the version every adaptation is measured against.
MANGA ARTIST (MANGAKA) ACROSS THE SITE
There are 2 profiles filed under Manga Artist (Mangaka).
2 of them are credited on at least one title record on this site, and 2 on more than one, 10 credits in total.
People filed under Manga Artist (Mangaka) are also filed under Illustrator (2), Author and Writer most often, so the two jobs regularly sit with the same person.
Every one of them with a nationality on record is recorded as Japanese.
The records that draw on them most are Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! (Anime), Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! and Cherry Magic.
Every figure above is counted from this site’s own records and changes as records are added.
