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We journey to the east to discover one of Japan's many manga artists who have found success on western shores. Yukito Kishiro's artwork is incredibly detailed, dynamic, and also somewhat disturbing. His first major work, Battle Angel Alita, demonstrated his penchant for graphic representation of action, violence, and athleticism. Not only that, but his vision of a society living in co-dependency with technology was fascinating enough to publish 8 volumes of work. His following work, Aqua Knight, is currently being published in the United States as well, but will be on hiatus until he finishes his next volume of Battle Angel. His style developed from softer and darker, to clean and angular which better suited a fantastic tale of knights that ride on killer whales. The one theme that each work holds in common is the spirituality of the work. Not outright theology, but something vague which we all recognize whether we want to or not. If I drew half as well as he did, I don't think I'd be an engineer anymore. Please excuse the cheesecake-iness of the image I'm posting, it's the best one I could find.