* Denmark, the fictional personification of the country the manga Hetalia: Axis Powers by Hidekaz Himaruya

When Hidekaz Himaruya gave human names to the countries in his series Hetalia: Axis Powers, the personification of Finland received the name " Tino Väinämöinen ".

* Hetalia: Axis Powers, comic series of Hidekaz Himaruya

* 1958 – Yoshito Usui, Japanese manga artist

* 8 Man, a manga and anime superhero created in 1963 by writer Kazumasa Hirai and artist Jiro Kuwata.

* 1953 – Masami Kurumada, Japanese manga artist

* 1971 – Mine Yoshizaki, Japanese manga artist

* Maki Murakami, manga artist

* 1919 – Takashi Yanase, Japanese manga artist

* 1989 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist ( b. 1928 )

Many later figures were influenced by Lovecraft's works, including author and artist Clive Barker, prolific horror writer Stephen King, comics writers Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Mike Mignola, film directors John Carpenter, Stuart Gordon, and Guillermo Del Toro, horror manga artist Junji Ito, and artist H. R. Giger.

* 1973 – Mayu Shinjo, Japanese manga artist

is the pen-name of Japanese manga artist Michitaka Kikuchi whose work spans multiple genres and appeals to diverse audiences.

One of the most widely published Japanese manga artist, nearly all of his stories have been translated into other languages, including English.

Before becoming a manga artist, Asamiya graduated from the Tokyo Designer School, then worked as a character designer for a number of anime series, and even designed models for some of the later Godzilla films ( 1980s ).

is a Japanese manga artist, screenwriter and film director.

In 1973 he graduated high school and left Miyagi, heading to Tokyo with the hopes of becoming a manga artist.

A manga artist ( mangaka in Japanese ) typically works with a few assistants in a small studio and is associated with a creative editor from a commercial publishing company.

* 1977 – Mashima Hiro, Japanese manga artist

is an internationally renowned manga artist, born on November 23, 1961.

* 1922 – Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese soldier and manga artist

is a Japanese manga artist and prominent film director and animator of many popular anime feature films.

Like many children in postwar Japan, Miyazaki decided he wanted to become a manga artist during high school.

It was after this Miyazaki decided to stop his pursuit of being a manga artist and pursue animation.

* 1971 – Koshi Rikdo, Japanese manga artist

* 1928 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist ( d. 1989 )

In Akira Toriyama's manga and anime series Dragon Ball, a scientist named Dr. Gero created several cyborgs, including villain Cell, sibling cyborgs Android 17 and Android 18, as well as Android 20, who was built from Gero himself.

In the manga and anime series Ghost in the Shell, the protagonist Motoko Kusanagi is the fully prosthetic leader of an anti-terrorist force, who lives in a future Japan where the majority of adults are cyborgs and can connect wirelessly to the Internet for real-time communication and data research.

* Quincy ( Bleach ), the race of Hollow-slayers who utilize divine power in the anime and manga, Bleach

Matt Thorn, who has made a career out of studying girls ' comics, attempts to clarify the matter by explaining that " shôjo manga are manga published in shôjo magazines ( as defined by their publishers )".

* Japanese ( manga )— Katsura Hoshino: D. Gray-man, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump ( 2004 – present ; main character, Allen Walker, is " the pierrot who will cause the akuma to fall "; anime based on manga released 2006 – 2008 ); Takashi Hashiguchi: Yakitate !!

For example, an Internet manga called Tonari no 801-chan, about a male otaku who dates a fujoshi, has been adapted into a serialized shōjo manga and a live-action film.

Early on in the story, Daisuke Ido, a bounty-hunting cybernetic doctor who finds and revives Alita plays a major role as well, but midway through the manga he becomes marginalized as focus begins to increasingly shift to Desty Nova, an eccentric nanotechnology scientist who has fled from Tiphares.

* Kore wa Zombie Desu ka ?, a series of Japanese light novels by Shinichi Kimura ( which has also been adapted into manga and anime formats ), features as its protagonist a zombie who was raised from the dead and befriended by a powerful necromancer.

In the anime and manga series, Shōtarō is a bold, self-assertive detective who frequently outwits his adversaries and helps to solve cases.

* Queenie Chan's manga The Dreaming takes place in Australia and deals with students from a boarding school who mysteriously go missing.

* Old Fritz is also a character who appears in the manga, Hetalia: Axis Powers, as Prussia's boss

It saw the return of the main cast, along with several popular characters from the manga who had not appeared in any of the previous anime.

More recently, this style of socks has become popular among American teens and college students who are fans of Japanese anime ( cartoons ) and manga ( comics ).

Three other characters who show up regularly in both the manga and anime are Shinichi and Koichi's mother and father, who operate a small hotel.

This is especially necessary for anime and manga characters who often have unnaturally coloured and uniquely styled hair.

The amphibious vehicle in the manga and anime series Kokoro Library, used by the three sisters who maintain the titular library, is very reminiscent of a Volkswagen Schwimmwagen, as is the vehicle used by Section III in Pumpkin Scissors.

The characters of Megane, Perm, Kakugari and Chibi are recurring characters throughout the anime adaption, however in the manga they are nameless fans of Lum who are never seen after Mendou is introduced.

In the Pokémon: Pikachu Shocks Back manga, when Pikachu is separated from Ash temporarily it meets a cynical Squirtle, who believes Ash has abandoned Pikachu.

Based on the manga, the game puts players in the role of Miki, who must try to win the heart of one of her three potential suitors from the series: Yuu, Ginta, or Kei.

Bishōnen is also used to describe an anime or manga character who is drawn as if a female, but has male components.