CLAMP
Yuki Kaori
Tsuda Mikiyo
Higuchi Tachibana
Takaya Natsuki

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In no particular order~ <3

Usami Maki
Yuu Watase
Haruta Nana
Tsukuba Sakura
Nanba Atsuko

All shoujo mangakas! 🤣

Hmm...

1. FUKUMOTO Nobuyuki (Zawa)
2. NIHEI Tsutomu (This dude's just crazy awesome.)
3. ARAKI Hirohiko (Look, everyone likes the awesome of Jojo)
4. IM Dal Young (Well that one's Korean)
5. AOYAMA Gosho (You know, Conan and Yaiba and Kid)

In that order of course, though I'm a bit unsure which order I want those first 2 in.

First 4 were easy. They were all the people I actually went "That was awesome" then read everything I could they'd written.

EDIT: I changed my mind.

1. FUKUMOTO Nobuyuki
2. TAKAHASHI Hiroshi
3. NIHEI Tsutomu
4. IWAAKI Hitoshi
5. ARAKI Hirohiko

Miwa Shirow
Nanami Shingo
Hazuki Kanae
Mizukami Satoshi
Amano Kozue

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And you will murder someone one day, pika. If you're my daughter.

My top 5 mangaka (updated, it's been a while since I've done this):

MIUCHI Suzue
TANEMURA Arina
CLAMP
TAKEUCHI Naoko
TAKAYA Natsuki

I read so much mangas, I'm too lazy to watch anime! 😛 😛 😛

Manga I'm loving ATM: Heart no Kuni no Alice

I can't effen believe this thread is still around!

Mangakas whose works I've been reading for a long time (and consistently enjoying), and whose new works I'll read without question are:

TORIYAMA Akira
TOGASHI Yoshihiro
URASAWA Naoki
MIDORIKAWA Yuki
AKIRA Shouko

I tried to get representatives from the shounen, seinen, and shoujo genres onto the list since I read all three. A few months ago, I would have put MORIMOTO Kozueko (for josei) on the list instead of AKIRA Shouko (a shoujo artist), but Deka Wanko has really fallen flat for me. If, by chance, it picks up and becomes as great as her earlier works, I'd put her back into my top five with AKIRA Shouko coming in at a high #6.

There's newer mangakas out there whose works I enjoy a lot (like TAMURA Ryuuhei, SHIIBASHI Hiroshi, and if she can be counted, Yu Wo), but I feel like a mangaka has to have at least a couple of completed works that I enjoyed from beginning to end in order to qualify as a "top 5" mangaka for me.

Updated,

Miura Kentaro
Urasawa Naoki
Eiichiro Oda
Nihei Tsutomu
Tetsuya Saruwatari (Saruwatari is the fucking man.)

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Hmm.. my favorites, in no particular order, would be:

Motomi Kyousuke
Tamura Yumi
Nakamura Yoshiki

And, as an "honorable mention," Mitsuki Kako. She's not on par with the others, but she consistently makes fluffy, sweet stories that I enjoy reading.

I don't have a fifth favorite mangaka. After those three (plus the honorable mention), I usually base things off of the individual manga, not by the mangaka.

"Without you, today's emotions would be the scurf of yesterday's."

For now, my top 5 are
TAMURA Yumi - BASARA saikou!!! XD I really love her stories, they've got real unique characters. The art style is unique too, quite strange at first but when you get used to it, it's simply great!!
MORI Kaoru If you love historical manga (like me) then she is one of the best out there 😀
OBATA Takeshi Both story and art are perfect <3 (especially the art)
YUMEKA Sumomo All her stories are so poignant, art style is gorgeous too
WATANABE Taeko - Kaze Hikaru<3 so cuteee!!!!
I spent quite some time to decide between Toume Kei and Watanabe Taeko, even thought about choose them both but ah well can't list all my favorite authors here anyway, there are still so many other great authors out there too.

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For now, my top 5 are
TAMURA Yumi - BASARA saikou!!! XD I really love her stories, they've got real unique characters. The art style is unique too, quite strange at first but when you get used to it, it's simply great!!
MORI Kaoru If you love historical manga (like me) then she is one of the best out there 😀
OBATA Takeshi Both story and art are perfect <3 (especially the art)
YUMEKA Sumomo All her stories are so poignant, art style is gorgeous too
WATANABE Taeko - Kaze Hikaru<3 so cuteee!!!!
I spent quite some time to decide between Toume Kei and Watanabe Taeko, even thought about choose them both but ah well can't list all my favorite authors here anyway, there are still so many other great authors out there too.

You do know that he works with someone who writes the stories for him most of the time, right?

-GGpX

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My Top 5 (in no particular order)

ARAKAWA Hiromu
KIGITSU Katsuhisa
YAMADA Fuutarou
Chi-Ran
TAKAGI Nobuyuki

My Top 5 (rather first five that I can think of)

MIZUKI Kawashita -for Ichigo 100% and Anedoki
GOKURAKUIN Sakurako -for Sekirei
AKAMATSU Ken -for Love Hina
YAMADA Yoshinobu -for Eden no Ori
IM Dal-Young -for all of his work (but he's Korean)

Favorites, in no particular order

Inoue Takehiko- Vagabond, Slam Dunk, Real
Tsutomu Nihei- Blame, Abara, Blue Heaven
Kentaro Miura- Berserk. yeah, that's right, just one title.
Urasawa Naoki- Pluto, Monster, 20th Century Boys, Billy Bat
Tezuka Osamu- come on. you don't know who this is?
Iwaaki Hitoshi- Historie, Parasyte
Yukimura Makoto- Planetes, Vinland Saga

there's other's I like, like Hirano Kouta, Ohba Tsugumi, Yagi Norihiro, Hojo Tsukasa, Kigitsu Katsuhisa, and too many others to list, but these guys are tops in my mind.

Hmmmm. Good question. I love so many.
I guess my top 5 (right now anyway...I'm always finding new mangakas to admire) would be:
Yana Toboso
Hiromu Arakawa
Bisco Hatori
Tite Kubo
...and Clamp. Dunno if they count as a mangaka, but I love them.