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Takeshi Obata (小畑 健, Obata Takeshi, born February 11, 1969 in Niigata, Niigata Perfecture) is a Japanese Mangaka. He generally works as the artist in collaboration with a writer. He has also mentored several mangaka, including Kentaro yabuki of Black cat, Nobuhiro Watsuki of Ruroni Kenshin, Tsugumi Ohba of Death Note, and Yusuke Murata of Eyeshield 21.
He originally became noticed in 1985 when he took a prize in the Tezuka Award (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tezuka_Award) for his one shot 500 Kōnen no Kaiwa. Then he join the Weekly Shonen Jump, he mentored under Makoto Niwano (creator of Bomber Girl). After several years of difficulty to finding a hit, Obata began collaborating with other writers on their stories. He finally began the series that established his name when he teamed with Yumi Hotta on Hikaru no Go starting in 1998. He is most well-known as the artist of Hikaru no Go, for which he received the Shogakukan Manga Award (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogakukan_Manga_Award) in 2000 and the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tezuka_Osamu_Cultural_Prize) in 2003, and Death Note.

I like his drawings not only for the detail, but in his penchant for fashion. The characters he draws often wear stylish clothes and trendy items like the latest fashionable scarf, tie or handbag. Especially his drawings on Death Note manga with Tsugumi Ohba. And i think the best collaboration is when he's making the drawings of Death Note. Coz Death Note is a great success, even it has been serialized in Anime. Then there're novel version of Death Note. The last is the Video Games (for Nintendo DS) and the Live Action Film that has a great hits around the world.

In the fall of 2007, he drew a short story, Hello Baby, with writer Masanori Morita, which appeared in Jump Square. This was followed by a one-shot manga with Nisio Isin. A new series with Tsugumi Ohba, Bakuman (my favorite manga too) began in August, 2008. In addition to his manga work, he has also done character design work for the video game Castlevania Judgement.

As for me, the best drawings and story collaboration is when he make Death Note and Bakuman. The best one-shot stories is Uroboe Uroboros and Hello Baby.