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Being an artist means drawing influence from your favorite artists to create your own style, and being a mangaka is no different. Before a mangaka can serialize their work, tons of research goes into precedents set by famous works as well as the best art styles in the field, and Yuki Tabata is no different.
Black Cloveris Yuki Tabata’s masterpiece, but it is also an amalgamation of everything that has inspired the author. And the list includes everything: from the manga he read in his childhood, to the ones he had to compete with as rivals.
Yuki Tabata’s Art inBlack CloverShows Influences from Various Shonen Favorites
As I stated before,Yuki Tabata‘s art has beeninfluenced by various other mangakaswho are also masters of their crafts. The first similarity that I found was betweenBlack CloverandFairy Tail‘s linework. The way Tabata drew his characters in the manga is very similar toHiro Mashima’s style inFairy Tail. Even the structure and definition of limbs are similar.
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Next is Yoshihiro Togashi, the author of Hunter x Hunter. Togashi uses a lot of lines, and his artwork holds many scratchy details, which can also be found in Black Clover. The narrow eye shapes that Togashi creates in his characters are similar to those found in Black Clover. Eiichiro Oda loves to create double spreads in One Piece, where his artwork gets highlighted over the course of the two pages, and Yuki Tabata has also done the same withBlack Clover.
Yuki Tabata has also drawn influence fromBleach, especially when it comes to panel structure.Tite Kubohas some of the most dynamic art as well as panels among Shounen manga, and the same aesthetic sense could be seen in severalBlack Cloverpanels.
Yuki Tabata has Openly Talked About What Inspired Him
Yuki Tabata had reminisced that thefirst anime he ever watched wasDragon Balland when he learned it was based on a manga, he also decided to be a mangaka. Since then, he has been inspired and influenced by various works, both popular and unpopular. HelovesYu Yu Hakushoby Yoshihiro Togashi, and as a mangaka, he is bound to have borrowed a bit of the artstyle subconsciously to fit into his own series someday.
In aJuly 2018 article, Tabata also detailed howBerserkby Kentaro Miura left an impact on him. The battles, story, as well as environments of the manga, were an important source of inspiration for Tabata, and he had alwayswanted to make something in the same spiritbut for the Shonen audience.Another 2018 interviewshowed his library, which contains works likeOne Piece, Attack on Titan, Dragon Ball. Fullmetal Alchemist, Slam Dunk, Yu Yu Hakusho, Hunter x Hunter, and many others.
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Tabata also lovesBleachand hasopenly admitted to it. He also claimed thatBlack Cloverwas influenced byBleach. Nonetheless, it is only natural for mangakas to be inspired by other great seniors and rivals, and Yuki Tabata is no exception. He has always been open about what influenced him, and if you readBlack Cloverwith an eye for detail, you can also find similarities with Tabata’s favorite manga.
Black Clovermanga is available to read on Viz Media, and the anime is currently streaming on Crunchyroll.
Aaheli Pradhan
Anime Content Writer
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Aaheli is an Anime Content Writer at FandomWire with 1300+ published articles. With five years of experience under her belt, she is a living, breathing encyclopedia for anime and manga. From Shonen and Shojo to the most niche anime, nothing escapes her radar. Her poisons of choice are Assassination Classroom, Gintama, Ouran High School Host Club and every Ghibli movie ever. She believes in living a slow life, surrounded by incomplete art projects and her beloved cats.
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