Macoto Takahashi

Official Websitehttps://www.macotocouture.com/ Twitterhttps://twitter.com/macotonohiroba Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/macotocoutureofficial/ Macoto Takahashi is a Japanese painter illustrator and manga artist. His art and illustrations are noted for significantly influencing the aesthetic styles of shoujo manga. He decided to pursue jojouga lyrical painting after discovering the works of jojouga artist Junichi Nakahara in the magazine Himawari. He began his career in 1953 illustrating books aimed at the loan market kashihon. He began to create manga in 1956 with the shoujo manga series ParisTokyo. That same year he contributed to the nascent gekiga scene by adapting Sherlock Holmes stories for the kashihon manga magazine Kage. During the 1960s Takahashi stopped creating shoujo manga because he considered himself incapable of adopting the point of view of a girl. He shifted to illustration creating album cover artwork stationery and covers of shoujo manga magazines and became particularly popular with the Gothic Lolita subculture. Source: Wikipedia edited