Who are your 5 favorite Mangaka? (I am including manhwa and manhua)
Mine are
KUSUNOKI Kei
FUJISAWA Tohru
TAKAHASHI Tsutomu
NAGAI Go
YAMAMOTO Hideo

Every dead body that is not exterminated becomes one of them. It gets up and kills! The people it kills get up and kill!

This is easy, i only know the names of my favorite.
in no specific order
HIROKO ENDO
KITO MOHIRO
MATSUMOTO JIRO
NIHEI TSUTOMU
TOUME KEI ( or Tome )

nice new thread

edit: i just realize checking out the authors mentioned that the mangaka section could use some pic and info input. oh well, its hard to find stuff on the eglish web.

My top five... hmm...

USAMI Maki
Kayono
Yoshihara Yuki
Yuu Watase
IKEYAMADA Gou

Can't tell I'm a bit shoujo fan yet? xD I love shounen as well, I just don't pay attention to the manga-ka.

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bully_jesus, then why don't you start updating authors? It would be a great help!

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Yeah, got agree with lambchopsil. It's a LOT to expect pictures of mangaka in their profiles. Isn't Manga Updates only about 2 years old? It's pretty decent for the age it's at, and something tells me that looking for photos of mangaka is going to be like looking for needles in a haystack (unless a person is looking from Japan...but even then, maybe the outlook isn't so good).

Unless same eager fans decide to look for photos or at least used the "illustrated" portrait the mangaka uses in their author's notes for their manga volumes, there's a good chance there won't be a photo for each mangaka anytime soon.

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Minoru Furuya, number 1 mangaka.
Makoto Isshiki, number 1 underrated mangaka
Yellow Tanabe, best omake's ever, and Kekkaishi is pretty damn good too
Eiichiro Oda, One Piece.
Hideo Yamamoto, Homunculus and Koroshiya, the guy is mad.

Miura Kentaro
Urasawa Naoki
Eiichiro Oda
Nihei Tsutomu
Akira Toriyama

No specific order.

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Well, what i meant at the end of my last post with its hard to find info on the enlish web is the same thing takiko was saying.I have already tried finding certain mangaka on the web and was really surprised to find almost nothing in english or german.
For example the wikipedia page for Nihei has 3 sentences, the german wikipedia 9. Goole gives you wikipedia first and after that mostly ads from bookstores. And Nihei is pretty succesfull.

Naoki Urasawa

Nihei Tsutomu

Shirow Masamune

CLAMP (the whole team of 'em)

Katsuhiro Otomo

[edit] ...rounding up the results after some time will allow us to find the most popular mangaka amongst the forum users, imho.

Don't waste your time or time will waste you.

SADAMOTO Yoshiyuki Neon Genesis Evangelion
KAWASHITA Mizuki Ichigo 100%
AKAMATSU Ken Love Hina
KANO Yasuhiro Pretty Face
FUJISAWA Tohru Great Teacher Onizuka

...rounding up the results after some time will allow us to find the most popular mangaka amongst the forum users, imho.

good idea, I'll try to keep track

Ok, here are the polls!

(Magic, Kaguya Hime)
(Azumanga, biggrin)

über-leaders:
Urasawa Naoki IIII
Adachi Mitsuru IIII

leaders:
Nihei Tsutomu III
Oda Eiichiro III
AKAMATSU Ken III

not leaders:
Yamamoto Hideo II
FUJISAWA Tohru II
Fujishima Kosuke II

Losers:
SADAMOTO Yoshiyuki I
KAWASHITA Mizuki I
KANO Yasuhiro I
Shirow Masamune I
CLAMP (the whole team of 'em) I
Katsuhiro Otomo I
Miura Kentaro II
Akira Toriyama I
Minoru Furuya I
Makoto Isshiki I
Yellow Tanabe I
USAMI Maki I
Kayono I
Yoshihara Yuki I
Yuu Watase I
IKEYAMADA Gou I
HIROKO ENDO I
KITO MOHIRO I
MATSUMOTO JIRO I
TOUME KEI ( or Tome ) I
KUSUNOKI Kei I
TAKAHASHI Tsutomu I
NAGAI Go I
Hikawa Kyoko I
Takahashi Rumiko I
Maekawa Takeshi I
Takehiko Inoue I
Morikawa Jyoji I
Azuma Kiyohiko I
Reiko Shimizu I
Arakawa Hiromu I
Kishimoto Masashi I
Natsuki Takaya I
Kubo Tite I
SEO Kouji I
MINAMI Kanan I
Yamato Nase I
Odagiri Hotaru I
Murakami Maki I
Gotou Shinobu I
Eiki Eiki I

Yeah, you might want to refine that list
there are 2 ODA Eiichiro, and 2 FUJISAWA Tohru. It may also be a good idea to put it in alphabetical order (SURNAME First) after splitting into voting numbers. Also maybe hyperlink to the authors page in the database.

edit: that may be a lot of trouble.

Every dead body that is not exterminated becomes one of them. It gets up and kills! The people it kills get up and kill!

Use the title code: http://www.mangaupdates.com/?act=bbcode

url=author's page]Author's Name[/url
I left off the front and back bracket to show how it is set up.

NIHEI Tsutomu III: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=540

FUJISAWA Tohru II: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=756
ODA Eiichiro II: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=31
URASAWA Naoki II: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=115
YAMAMOTO Hideo II: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=708

AKAMATSU Ken I: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=296
CLAMP I: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=208
ENDO Hiroki I: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=564
IKEYAMADA Gou I: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=204
ISSHIKI Makoto I: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=561
KANO Yasuhiro I: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=378
Kayono I: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=457
KAWASHITA Mizuki I: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=42
KITOH Mohiro I: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=302
KUSUNOKI Kei I: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=257
MIURA Kentaro I: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=670
MATSUMOTO Jiro I: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=671
NAGAI Go I: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=911
OTOMO Katsuhiro I: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=1394
SADAMOTO Yoshiyuki I: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=71
SHIROW Masamune I: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=827
TANABE Yellow I: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=1582
TAKAHASHI Tsutomu I: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=669
TOUME Kei I: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=594
TORIYAMA Akira I: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=644
USAMI Maki I: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=521
WATASE Yuu I: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=756
YOSHIHARA Yuki I: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=90

Every dead body that is not exterminated becomes one of them. It gets up and kills! The people it kills get up and kill!

Adachi Mitsuru
Hikawa Kyoko
Takahashi Rumiko
Maekawa Takeshi
Fujishima Kosuke