Hello there. :3

I'm looking for some manga with great art. For inspiration.
Any suggestions?

Please take note, great ART. I know there are a lot of great manga out there with awesome plot, but I'm only after the art for this thread. For starters, I love Yuu Watase's Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden (I'm not much of a fan of Fushigi Yuugi's art though). But of course, it would also be good to hear manga titles from other genres.

Thanks Dollars people! :)

I hope I'm not making a duplicate thread. I did look at the threads list, there's none like this...

I can think of a few. Let's see.

One of my favorite manga artists ever is Takeshi Obata, even though I don't always like the manga he's part of because others are responsible for the writing. I don't really like Death Note and I've only read a bit of Bakuman. My favorite thing of his is actually Hikaru no Go where he teamed up with someone other than Tsugumi Ohba for the story. You can actually see his art mature in that one, it's great.

Miwa Shirow is another mangaka with a really great style. His manga is called Dogs Bullets & Carnage and it looks like this. He's not really big on backgrounds, but I love the way he draws people.

Another one of my personal favorites is Shinobu Takayama, author of Amatsuki and Haigakura. At first her art looks a bit typically shoujo, but I think her character designs are really nice and when it matters the art can really bring out the fantasy element in her stories and how rich and colorful the world the stories take place in is. Link & link. Both manga are pretty cryptic and hard to read though, so I guess that's a downside.

The Breaker is also a thing with pretty stunning art. It's a manhwa about an underground group of super powered martial artists and it looks like this. The story is really good too and I just remembered I'm about 1000 chapters behind on its sequel.

I think that Bleach actually has really great art too, but you know, it's Bleach.

Oh yeah, since you mentioned genres, Dogs and The Breaker are action/fighting seinen, Haigakura and Amatsuki are fantasy josei. Obata's atuff I mentioned are shounen, everyone knows Death Note, Bakuman is about making manga and Hikaru no Go is about paying Go :>

Thanks for this. I'll look into those. :)