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Been wanting to do this one for like a year or so.

Masamune Shirow- Ghost in the Shell, Appleseed. Both the films and shows but also the original mangoes. Love the technology with its organic lines and gritty look, like in Dominion Tank Police.
Osamu Tezuka- Such a rich, soft, varied style. Be it in Astro Boy or Message to Adolf, a mindblowing author I utterly adore.
Leiji Matsumoto- One of the first manga tankobon I remember having is a volume of his Space Battleship Great Yamato, untranslated. He's much kind of a crappy artist tbh in terms of sequential art, but his designs and sense of aesthetic are just marvellous.
Studio Ghibli- As many, I was initiated into them with Princess Mononoke, also having a japanese book of the movie for years now. Utterly love the machinery Miyazaki makes, but my favourite moments beyond the sheer scenery porn are movies like Whisper of the Heart or Only Yesterday- Just touching, small stories.
Dynamic Pro- By this I want to encapsulate both Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa. Getter Robo, Mazinger Z, Cutie Honey, Devilman. The gritty, insane, violent, comedic stories and raw art.
Pre-2010 GAINAX; Studio TRIGGER- Works like Evangelion and FLCL shaped me. However, the brilliant minds who did all those shows, all those great designs and animation, ended up leaving, many for Studio TRIGGER; Hence the time limit here.
Ken Sugimori- Ever since the first Pokémons the illustrations have been some of my favourite in the game industry. For designing funny animals, a great influence.
Classic Sonic- YOU DON'T SAY SO. Things like the Sonic Screensaver, the art made for Japanese merchandise, Sonic 3d Blast's art, etc. the funky colours, the shapes, the simplicity.
Battle Angel Alita- first saw mentioned in a classic AMV, then read some issues of the American release in a Portuguese comics festival. Ended up reading the whole thing. Everything in it, the story, the characters, the mechanical design, it's beautiful. Together with Shirow and Otomo, forms my vision of cyberpunk.
1920's Cartoons; Rubberhose- Pictured is George Herriman's Krazy Kat. Could've had the Fleischers instead. My favourite era of animation.
60's Sci-Fi Manga- Specifically the work of Mitsuteru Yokohama and Shotaro Ishinomori. The pulp adventures with great robots, lots of shooting, and lots of secret societies and labs.
Frank Miller's B&W High-Contrast Art- I'm very specific here since his art elsewhere doesn't do anything for me; But his Sin City blew up my mind as a young teen and was a huge influence. There was a time where I just drew everything in high contrast like this.
Katsuhiro Otomo- Around the time... actually I think it was the same christmas, 10th christmas or so, I got a volume of Akira together with the aforementioned volume of Great Yamato and book about Princess Mononoke. The quality, detailed linework. The expressive characters. The machinery, again. Tetsuo's rampage. If nowadays I still have to learn not to put too much detail in my comic backgrounds, it's because of this. Whoa.

So yeah. Will need a revision eventually, I notice I've forgotten a good bunch of stuff like Jack Kirby, Giorgio Cavazzano, or Jamie Hewlett, but for now, this'll do.

Description
Been wanting to do this one for like a year or so.

Masamune Shirow- Ghost in the Shell, Appleseed. Both the films and shows but also the original mangoes. Love the technology with its organic lines and gritty look, like in Dominion Tank Police.
Osamu Tezuka- Such a rich, soft, varied style. Be it in Astro Boy or Message to Adolf, a mindblowing author I utterly adore.
Leiji Matsumoto- One of the first manga tankobon I remember having is a volume of his Space Battleship Great Yamato, untranslated. He's much kind of a crappy artist tbh in terms of sequential art, but his designs and sense of aesthetic are just marvellous.
Studio Ghibli- As many, I was initiated into them with Princess Mononoke, also having a japanese book of the movie for years now. Utterly love the machinery Miyazaki makes, but my favourite moments beyond the sheer scenery porn are movies like Whisper of the Heart or Only Yesterday- Just touching, small stories.
Dynamic Pro- By this I want to encapsulate both Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa. Getter Robo, Mazinger Z, Cutie Honey, Devilman. The gritty, insane, violent, comedic stories and raw art.
Pre-2010 GAINAX; Studio TRIGGER- Works like Evangelion and FLCL shaped me. However, the brilliant minds who did all those shows, all those great designs and animation, ended up leaving, many for Studio TRIGGER; Hence the time limit here.
Ken Sugimori- Ever since the first Pokémons the illustrations have been some of my favourite in the game industry. For designing funny animals, a great influence.
Classic Sonic- YOU DON'T SAY SO. Things like the Sonic Screensaver, the art made for Japanese merchandise, Sonic 3d Blast's art, etc. the funky colours, the shapes, the simplicity.
Battle Angel Alita- first saw mentioned in a classic AMV, then read some issues of the American release in a Portuguese comics festival. Ended up reading the whole thing. Everything in it, the story, the characters, the mechanical design, it's beautiful. Together with Shirow and Otomo, forms my vision of cyberpunk.
1920's Cartoons; Rubberhose- Pictured is George Herriman's Krazy Kat. Could've had the Fleischers instead. My favourite era of animation.
60's Sci-Fi Manga- Specifically the work of Mitsuteru Yokohama and Shotaro Ishinomori. The pulp adventures with great robots, lots of shooting, and lots of secret societies and labs.
Frank Miller's B&W High-Contrast Art- I'm very specific here since his art elsewhere doesn't do anything for me; But his Sin City blew up my mind as a young teen and was a huge influence. There was a time where I just drew everything in high contrast like this.
Katsuhiro Otomo- Around the time... actually I think it was the same christmas, 10th christmas or so, I got a volume of Akira together with the aforementioned volume of Great Yamato and book about Princess Mononoke. The quality, detailed linework. The expressive characters. The machinery, again. Tetsuo's rampage. If nowadays I still have to learn not to put too much detail in my comic backgrounds, it's because of this. Whoa.

So yeah. Will need a revision eventually, I notice I've forgotten a good bunch of stuff like Jack Kirby, Giorgio Cavazzano, or Jamie Hewlett, but for now, this'll do.