Atsushi Ohkubo

Atsushi Ōkubo
Born	Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Area(s)	Manga artist, fantasy artist
Notable works	Soul Eater

Atsushi Ōkubo (大久保 篤, Ōkubo Atsushi), also romanized as Atsushi Ohkubo, is a Japanese manga author and fantasy artist known for his work on the manga series Soul Eater, which has been adapted into an anime. Okubo worked as an assistant under Rando Ayamine, on the manga series Get Backers. He also created artwork for various cards for the Lord of Vermillion game.

Atsushi Ōkubo was not a model student and was more attracted to drawing than to learning. At the age of 20, after finishing studies at a manga school where he met Rando Ayamine, the author of "Get Backers", he became Rando Ayamine's assistant for two years. Finally, he won a competition at Square Enix's Gangan magazine with his first manga series B.Ichi and it was published for four volumes. After the end of his last manga, he created Soul Eater, still for Square Enix's Gangan magazine, which brought him worldwide success.

Works

• Get Backers (1999) - Assistant artist
• B. Ichi (B壱) (2002) - Writer, artist
• Soul Eater (2003) - Writer, artist
• Soul Eater Not! (2011) - Writer, artist

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Assistants

• Maru Tomoyuki (Tripeace)
• Takatoshi Shiozawa (FULL MOON)
• Takuji Kato (The Unusual Front)
• Yoshiki Tonogai (Doubt)