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Akira Itō (artist)

Japanese mangaka

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ2829067 ↗
Source-derived summary

Akira Ito (伊藤 彰, Itō Akira) is a manga artist. Ito drew Yu-Gi-Oh! R while the creator of the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise, Kazuki Takahashi, came up with the storyline. Ito's drawing style is similar to Takahashi's. Ito later co-created Cardfight!! Vanguard in collaboration with Satoshi Nakamura (Duel Masters) and Bushiroad president Takaaki Kidani.

Ito worked as a staff member for the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Akira Itō (artist)” as japanese mangaka. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 62-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1950. The account is most persuasive where Akira, artist and Japanese can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as japanese mangaka. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2829067. VIAF identifies the subject as 251861824. The Library of Congress control number is no2014055218. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Akira Itō (artist)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.