Oh! great

Ito Ogure, born February 22, 1972, in Hyuga, Miyazaki, works under the pen name Oh! great. Choosing that as your professional name takes a certain nerve; the drawings, fortunately, cash the check. He is best known for Tenjho Tenge (1997–2010) and Air Gear (2002–2012), the latter winning the Kodansha Manga Award in the shonen category in 2006. What strikes me about his pages is the sheer density of information per panel — the linework should collapse into noise and instead reads as motion. That is a specific and rare technical skill, not just decoration. The risk of being that good at rendering is that people file you as an illustrator who happens to write, and I think that undersells him. The momentum of his storytelling, the way a spread yanks you into the next page, is deliberate craft. He turned a personal drawing style into something instantly identifiable, which is the actual currency in manga. The boastful pen name ended up being a fair description.

Name (English)

Oh! great

Name (Japanese)

大暮維人

Reading

おおぐれ いと

Born

February 22, 1972 (age 54)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rat

Origin

Hyūga-shi, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

mangaka

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh!%20great
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E6%9A%AE%E7%B6%AD%E4%BA%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q553105

Tags

• Miyazaki Prefecture
• mangaka

Last updated

2026-08-07

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