Obscure Adventures in Geek and Nerd Culture

The Studio Break Lineage Mao Lamdo School  Mao Lamdo > Hokuto Sakiyama Takuji Miyamoto   Miyazawa School Keiichi Tanaami > Yasunori Miyazawa Hiroto Nagata  Studio Break School  Shinya Ōhira  Shinji Hashimoto (by adoption)  Akihiro Ota  *As usual, Shinya Ohira still has more surrealist influences than fellow expressionists and realists who were raised by Kanada schoolers. His first known influences are estranged friends Masahito Yamashita and Atsushi Yano, the Toyoo Ashida and Shinsaku Kozuma inspired effects rebel. Funnily enough, somewhat unlike both Yamashita and Yano, Tadakatsu Yoshida is amongst his strongest influences along with Tsuguyuki Kubo and Yasunori Miyazawa, followed by Manabu Oohashi (Mao Lamdo), Keiichi Tanaami, Takashi Nakamura, Shinsaku Kozuma, Osamu Dezaki, Hidemi Kubo and Akira Daikuhara, all via Masahito Yamashita. Something similar can be said for the more Ghibli friendly Shinji Hashimoto, who is more likely to otherwise com...

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. Given a somewhat stronger Sano influence, Oishi’s the wackiest of the bunch, having led the Yoshinari Brothers to gain international fame. Ishida School Atsuko Ishida  Rihiro Yamane  Akio Watanabe  Katsuzo Hirata  Shigeta School Atsushi Shigeta Kenji Kuroyanagi  Shota Goshozono  *Shota Goshozono has inherited quite a lot of stylised Kanadesque 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 ...

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.