Who's your favorite author? I gotta go with Takehiko Inoue. Dude made 3 series I liked a lot...

No, normalfag as in basic bitch taste

Nothing wrong with liking the author.

Mine is Niko Tanigawa, whoever him/her/thepair is. Not even welcome to the nhk has captured my inner self and spun it in just the right way as well as watamote has, and I'm not even a gril.

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Asano is literally one of the most famous mangaka around.

It's really hard to pick just one but I'd say either Makoto Ojiro or Takuma Yokota. I've loved almost anything they've worked on that I've read and as someone who's working on getting a comic up with a friend those two, along Mitsuru Adachi and Aiko Koyama, have had probably the biggest influence on me and how I want to generally approach things.

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Oh Dowman too is one of my favorites. So really it's just easier to make a top 5 of Ojiro, Yokota, Adachi, Koyama and Dowman and leave it at that.

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It has to be Taiyou Matsumoto.
Jiro Taniguchi, Tetsuya Toyoda, and Yoshiharu Tsuge are runner-ups, since I've enjoyed everything they've done.
I've only read YKK and loved it.
I haven't enjoyed anything I've read from him.

>I haven't enjoyed anything I've read from him.
The only series of his I've liked is Solanin.

Slam Dunk has one of my favorite endings I've ever read. I'm hoping for a good ending to REAL but I don't care much if Vagabond has a rushed ending. That series is more about the art than anything else for me. Akagi and Kaiji are pretty good and I liked Strongest Man Kurosawa a lot.
I don't get why Asano has this bad rep on here. Yeah it's typical to hate on popular stuff here but his art is great. I've read Downfall, half of Punpun, Solanin, and A Girl on the shore. I enjoyed all of the stories some. He repeats a lot of the same themes in his stories but so do a lot of famous literary authors.

Not him, but I hated Solanin, fuck all happened and then one guy died and then more fuck all happened, and none of the characters were very interesting to me.

Togashi, one of the few who actually put lots of time into planning their story and development

FKMT, Hideo Yamamoto and Masanori Morita

>an abruptly abandoned manga is your favorite ending of all time

Personally that's why I enjoyed it. It's just a group of listless post-college twentysomethings caught in a rut until events force them to actually start thinking about what they're going to do: make a change and risk failure or stay with what's safe and risk stagnation.

It's a lot more real and hits a lot harder for me than something like Punpun which is so over the top that I can't even take it seriously. Asano's never written a scene as good or as powerful as pic related and likely never will because he's long since lost the kind of straightforward sincerity that would allow him to make anything like it ever again.

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Iwaaki. Historie is the greatest manga ever created and I also liked parasyte and reiri a lot too.

You're allowed to enjoy popular things.

Just because it's abrupt doesn't mean it's bad. It was satisfying to see that them pushing themselves to the limit in the semi-finals had consequences and I liked that he left what happens in the next season up to the reader's imagination. You don't need a neatly wrapped up ending explaining the fallout of everything to have a good ending.

After the amaimask arc, unironically ONE.

It just doesn't do anything for me. Maybe it's "real", but it's not interesting. Solanin might as well have just been "a guy died and it was sad" written on a piece of paper to me, it didn't do much at all to get me invested in these people or their relationships. I'm not a fan of his other stuff either, just for the record, but you aren't the first person I've seen say "Punpun is shit and Solanin is the real good stuff" and I just don't think it deserves that.

Pretty sure he was saying that because the first guy said "I doubt the majority here have read his works," not because popular = bad.

That's not what I got at all from watching Yu Yu Hakusho and reading Hunter x Hunter. It seems like he'll plan a story arc out well but then after it's over, he'll start over from a blank slate and be like this would be cool to do and figures out a way to fit it in his story.
I liked Homunculus pretty well but haven't read it in like 5 or 6 years. I read Ichi the killer too but was pretty grossed out by a lot of it. Is Hikari man any good?

FKMT

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Taniguchi, Inoue, Ojiro, Igarashi and Toriyama

>I've only read YKK and loved it.
His other work doesn't touch YKKs quality but if you liked its vibe they're still good read, his stuff all shares the same blueprint.

Kabu no Isaki has a pretty terrible ending though, it feels like it got cancelled and he only had five chapters to throw one together.