Dr. Osamu Tezuka (手塚 治虫, Tezuka Osamu?, was a Japanese manga artist, animator, producer and medical doctor, although he never practiced medicine. Born in Osaka Prefecture, he is best known as the creator of Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion. He is often credited as the "Father of Anime", and

Anime & manga, Hi-tech, Playful

Pixar Animation Studios is an American computer animation studio based in Emeryville, California, United States, and is notable for its eight Academy Awards. It is best known for its CGI-animated feature films, including Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and Ratatouille, which are created with PhotoRealistic

Bright, Clever, Dreamy, Elegant, Funny, Pioneering

Shinichirō Watanabe (渡辺 信一郎) is a Japanese anime director and writer. He is most well-known for the television anime series Cowboy Bebop. Watanabe is noted for blending together multiple genres, such as in Cowboy Bebop, where classic cowboy western mixes with 1940s/1950s New York City f

Anime & manga, Atmospheric, Fantastic, Hi-tech, Machinistic, Technology

Heavily influenced by the otaku culture of sexually explicit manga, Kunikata's work adopts the genres conventions to explore and communicate issues of abandonment, masochism, and depression. Often filling notebook after notebook with nightmarish depictions of cruelty, Kunikata's personal drive to pr

Anime & manga, Fantastic, Figurative, Graffitists and cartoonists, Hi-tech, Kinetic, Sexy, Superflat