Manga With Awesome Art

I don't know about you, but as I've mentioned in my last post, art is important to me when selecting a manga to read. I can get by with mediocre art if the plot is really awesome, but they say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and since the point of manga is to read a story with pictures, I want my pictures pretty! :P Anyway, here are some yaoi manga and mangakas with pretty art I enjoy!

1) Takarai Rihito wrote Ten Count, which I gushed on about in the post before, Seven Days (drew the art), some others I don't remember, and some awesome artbooks!

2) Ogawa Chise wrote some of the darker themed manga I like, like Caste Heaven, and some slightly more lighthearted ones, like Gosan no Heart.

3) Yoo Ha Jin : manhwa artist/writer, the art in Totally Captivated is breathtaking! I'm not sure what other works this author has written, but I've only read Totally Captivated.

4) Kojima Lalako: wrote Paradise View, and its prequel, Kimi to Parade, some doujinishis, and also Gomen ne Idol-kun. The art is really cute, and more bishounen than ikemen, which I prefer, but it's still pretty to look at!

5) Mio Junta: wrote Love Monster, Yukemuri Journey and Ren'ai Moratorium, as well as countless others, all with her signature style of beautiful bishies and gorgeous ikemen.

Honorable Mention:

Akiyama Koito: wrote Silence and it has pretty people in it too~ Silence is the only manga that I know of that she's drawn, but it's a series of short stories/one-shot type stuff.

My Most Loved Yaoi Manga

In my few years travelling down the yaoi path, I have read many yaoi titles. I enjoyed most of them, but these are three of my all-time favorites! (And links!) :D

1. Ten Count by Takarai Rihito

http://www.yaoiotaku.com/forums/threads/17420-ten-count-by-takarai-rihito-eng

Ten Count is an AMAZING, and I mean, AMAZING  yaoi manga. It's about a secretary named Shirotani Tadaomi, who has mysophobia (fear of germs) who meets a psychologist by the name of Kurose Riku. Shirotani-san starts getting treatment for his mysophobia from Kurose-kun, and love blooms... sort of. This series is still ongoing, and the author really knows how to keep us hanging. Art is a really important factor in determining how much I enjoy a manga, and I have to say, Takarai-sensei's art style is one of the most beautiful styles I've ever seen. The story is also really intriguing, and rather deep at some moments, with some interesting backstories. It is a MUST READ!!!!

2. No.6 Story by Asano Atsuko, Art by Kino Hinoki

http://mangareado.com/no.-6/

No.6 is one of my favorite shounen-ai manga. The story focuses less on the romance part, and more of the action part, but there are several scenes where I'm fangirling like crazy. It was based of a novel series, and having read both, I find the story line sticks pretty closely to the original, which I really like. Also, the art of this manga appeals to me a lot as well! Basically, the story is about a boy, Shion, and a really gorgeous guy named Nezumi. The story is set in a futuristic world, and basically there is an utopia called No.6, which is all wonderful and stuff, but the citizens are sort of brainwashed to believe that life is perfect. Then, there are the places outside the walls of No.6, where it's basically a mess and not perfect at all. Shion and Nezumi are trying to destroy the walls of the city because the people who control the place are corrupt and shit. Honestly, my attempt at a summary doesn't do the plotline justice. JUST READ IT!!!

3. Love Stage!! by Eiki Eiki and Zaou Taishi

http://www.yaoiotaku.com/forums/threads/5445-love-stage

Love Stage!! is a fluffier yaoi mangat than the yaoi manga I usually read with darker themes, but this one's really cute~ The art is really nice, and contributes to the cute aspect of the story! It's basically about an eighteen year old otaku named Sena Izumi, who's whole family is in the showbiz industry... except for him. He wants to be a mangaka. However, when he was younger, he played a girl for a wedding commercial, and the little boy, Ichijou Ryouma, who was playing the guy in the same commercial fell in love with him, not knowing he was actually a guy. And now, that they're older, they're reunited to shoot an older version of them in the same wedding commercial, and awesome stuff happens. It's quite hilarious! XD