Inko

Inko Ai Takita, also known just as Inko, is UK based Japanese manga artist / illustrator.

Her visual works often imply cross overs of modern & traditional Eastern and Western cultures, which comes from her studies undergraduate and master at Kyoto Zokei university of Art & Design in Japan (gained scholarship on the second year) , and BA Central Saint Martin's College of Art & Design in UK before she kicks off her career as a manga & comic artist in 2009.

She has been working with: Guardian Children's book, British Museum, V&A, British Library, TFL, Sony Entertainment Japan.

A comic anthology Portrait of Violence (New International, also available on amazon) she took part as a main artist has won The 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards medal.

She joined as an illustrator for an interactive web-theatre Flight Paths, and it was awarded the P.K. Walker Innovation in Craft Award from Superfest Disability Film Festival 2021

A manga adoptation of Robert Burn's dark poem Tam O'Shanter (Cranachan) is published in 2019, and available on amazon too.

Manga Yokai Stories: Ghostly tales from Japan is just released by Tuttle in Sep 2020, and sold worldwide.

Yokai Trail exhibition, a part of House of Setting Sun exhibition at Blackwell the Arts & Crafts centre is open from July - October 2021.

Learn Clip Studio Paint (Packt) was published in 2021.

Magic:The Gathering Kamigawa visual novel is out on 2022.

Her manga adaptation of the first Japanese novel from 1st century Tale of Genji (Tuttle) was released June 2022.

Website: http://dokoteiinko.wix.com/inkoredible

Instagram:@inko_dokotei