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Takao Aoki (青木 たかお Aoki Takao) is a Japanese manga artist[1] from Tochigi Prefecture.
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[edit] Career
He works for Shogakukan. He went to Chiyoda Art school and took a special course in manga. He currently resides in Kamakura, Kanagawa. His new manga is called "X-Zone". Aoki 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".[citation needed]
[edit] 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 (who has a minor resemblance to Naruto) who 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
[edit] References
- ^ Solomon, Charles (6 January 2004). "Top draw? It's Yugi; For TV networks wondering where their young viewers went, Yu-Gi-Oh! and Beyblade could be the answer.". Los Angeles Times: p. E.2. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/521742211.html?dids=521742211:521742211&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jan+06,+2004&author=Charles+Solomon&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=.;+Top+draw%3F+It's+Yugi;+For+TV+networks+wondering+where+their+young+viewers+went,+Yu-Gi-Oh!+and+Beyblade+could+be+the+answer.&pqatl=google. Retrieved 1 November 2010.
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