Hikaru no Go

I may just be an Obata fan, but tell you what, the guy is good at what he does. His artwork is pretty stellar, if I do say so myself. Of course, the differences between Hikaru no Go and Death Note couldn't be any vaster, yet somehow he manages to pull the two off without replicating his style in any way.

Hikaru and Akira are just adorable though, really. I love how every character has his own, usually pretty trendy, style. Most manga I read repeat outfits (unless its Shoujo, in which the girl always has an outlandishly decorated and equally outlandish fashion sense) and that goes without saying with Shounen Manga. I mean...Naruto wears the same orange jumpsuit for what has to be a span of a year. Talk about repetitive.

And you've really got to be impressed by how he manages to pull off the intensity of each scene without flying punches and ultra cool blasts of electricity, and to get this abrupt emotion that drags you into the story without the usages of anything other then monologue, music, and killer eye shots.

I may be biased, though :) because these two are so cute.