Hikaru no Go, Vol. 23
Takeshi Obata was born in 1969 in Niigata, Japan, and is the artist of the wildly popular SHONEN JUMP titleHikaru no Go, which won the 2003 Tezuka Shinsei "New Hope" award and the Shogakukan Manga award. Obata is also the artist ofArabian Majin Bokentan Lamp Lamp,Ayatsuri Sakon,Cyborg Jichan G., and the smash hit mangaDeath Note.