Takao Aoki

Takao Aoki (é'木 たかお, Aoki Takao) is a Japanese manga artist from Tochigi Prefecture.

Career

Aoki went to Chiyoda Art school and took a special course in manga. He currently resides in Kamakura, Kanagawa. He works for Shogakukan. His new manga is called X-Zone. He has worked on character designs on several video games. He creates manga published in Shogakukan magazine. There are rumors that he made a Zoids manga known as "Tekkai!Zoids".

Works

Aoki's best known work is Beyblade, which became a franchise around children who battle with spinning tops. He also made "Bakufu Slash;Kizna", "A War Story of Metal Walker" and "Mini-4WD Fighter V". Most of Aoki's manga revolve around video games or toys.

• Bakuten Shoot Beyblade = Beigoma (a Japanese spinning top game)
• Bakufu Slash! Kizna Arashi = Based on the PS2 video game. In this game, a boy named Arashi has a blue dragon as a monster partner which he controls with an item called the Demon Seal Nail. Arashi's element is wind as he has a white cloth on his arm as proof of his element. His rival is Enn, who has a dragon named Blade and has a fire element with a flame on his arm as proof of his element. His girlfriend is named Mika. This is an SCEJ game only released in Japan. The official site is http://www.jp.playstation.com/scej/title/kizna/index.html
• A War Story of Metal Walker = Based on the computer game
• Mini-4WD Fighter = Based on the car racing game

References

External links

• Official site