As per our current Database, Takeshi Obata is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).
Currently, Takeshi Obata is 55 years, 9 months and 3 days old. Takeshi Obata will celebrate 56rd birthday on a Tuesday 11th of February 2025. Below we countdown to Takeshi Obata upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Takeshi Obata |
| Occupation | Comic Book Artist |
| Age | 55 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Aquarius |
| Born | February 11, 1969 (Japan) |
| Birthday | February 11 |
| Town/City | Japan |
| Nationality | Japan |
Takeshi Obata’s zodiac sign is Aquarius. According to astrologers, the presence of Aries always marks the beginning of something energetic and turbulent. They are continuously looking for dynamic, speed and competition, always being the first in everything - from work to social gatherings. Thanks to its ruling planet Mars and the fact it belongs to the element of Fire (just like Leo and Sagittarius), Aries is one of the most active zodiac signs. It is in their nature to take action, sometimes before they think about it well.
Takeshi Obata was born in the Year of the Rooster. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rooster are practical, resourceful, observant, analytical, straightforward, trusting, honest, perfectionists, neat and conservative. Compatible with Ox or Snake.
Famous for his artwork on the Japanese manga series Bakuman, Death Note, and Hikaru no Go, he received the 1989 Tezuka Award; the 1999 Shogakukan Manga Award; and the 2003 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.
He began his rise to fame in the mid-1980s, after publishing an acclaimed manga titled 500 Konen no Shinwa.
Death Note, his collaboration with Writer Tsugumi Ohba, inspired an anime series and multiple films and had sold more than twenty-five million copies by 2008.
He spent his youth in Niigata, Japan.
He became the mentor of Rurouni Kenshin manga Artist Nobuhiro Watsuki.
