Obscure Adventures in Geek and Nerd Culture

The Studio Break Lineage Mao Lamdo School  Mao Lamdo > Hokuto Sakiyama Atsushi Yano (by adoption)  Katsunori Shibata  Takashi Mukoda Takuji Miyamoto  *Oddly enough, Atsushi Yano isn’t as internationally well known as his fellow more famous Studio Break fellas, having instead come from Kazuhide Tomonaga’s and Shinji Hashimoto’s effects lineage. Shibata is definitely the wackiest of the current bunch, with Mukoda instead being the cooler headed guy who does goofy long camel-ish necks not just to embarrass young audiences without knowing why they’re here to begin with, but also to unintentionally impress some well meaning animal lovers.   Nakazawa School Hisao Yokobori  Kazuto Nakazawa (by adoption)  Toya Oshima Souta Yamazaki (by adoption)  *Hisao Yokobori has a relatively milder early Shinya Ohira like style, which also has been used somewhat more clearly by Toya Oshima, who’s definitely his cuter looking junior spiritual successor. Kazuto Nakaz...

The Shinbo Lineage  Wakabayashi School Atsushi Wakabayashi  Atsuko Inoue *Oddly enough, Atsushi Wakabayashi mainly has realist school origins, but accumulated both Kozuma and Itano characteristics throughout his early career.  Ishida School Motosuke Takahashi > Atsuko Ishida  Rihiro Yamane  Akio Watanabe  Katsuzo Hirata  Shigeta School Atsushi Shigeta Yoshinobu Ando Kenji Kuroyanagi  Shota Goshozono  *Shota Goshozono has inherited quite a lot of stylised alt-Kanada realism from Kenji Kuroyanagi, thus he is considered Kuroyanagi’s own true successor. Goshozono also has some Atsuko Ishida style characteristics, making him also an honorary Shinbo stylist.  The Obari Lineage  Obari School Yousuke Kabashima  Masami Obari  Kunihiro Abe > Munetaka Abe  Yoshinari Saito  Risa Ebata  Ryuuta Ura  Shunsuke Aoki *The Obari school is a Kanada Yamashita Anno hybrid, gaining quite a ton of expressive playfulness ...

Ms Atsuko Nakajima is a true innovator in that she merged Itano, Miyazaki and Komatsubara styles and made them her own.  That being said, the few major manga artists and animators who inherit very obvious Nakajima-like characteristics (at least from the mid-late 1980s and early-mid 1990s onward) tend to more usually hybridise Obari and Hirata-Flow styles, Obari and Full-Limited styles or Full-Limited and Hirata-Flow styles, depending on the budgets of any anime show or film. While retaining its own Sunrise Realist origins, Tomohiro Hirata’s Flow style has evolved into a somewhat cartoonier style more akin to Nakajima’s, which is most likely due to both sharing a major stylistic influence in Hideaki Anno.