Takao Yokoyama is the last artist given here, and another one of the frequent visitors to the Manor. In fact, he's the one that dropped by the manor when Fujio Akatsuka was trying to live off a box of rice cakes and a kettle of soup and ate all of the soup at one sitting. While Takao did create some of his own manga, his main credits seem to be as Akatsuka's assistant at Fujio Pro.
In his 16-page chapter for Tokiwa Sou Monogatari, Takao starts out by describing his fear at the first meeting he had with Tezuka. He'd grown up in Miyagi Prefecture, near the city where Shotaro Onodera (later working under the pen name Shotaro Ishinomori) lived. Takao would read manga whenever he had the chance, and at one point had sent in for a sketch pad from one magazine. He started drawing, and then discovered that the magazine was offering the chance to meet Tezuka. He traveled over one city, met with Ishinomori (then still attending school as Onodera) and made friends with him. Eventually, Fujiko Akatsuka and Ishinomori go to Tokyo and set up in Tokiwa. Takao gets invited through the manga magazine and meets both Tezuka and Terada, but he's ashamed to say that he can't remember any of the advice Terada had given him. Time passes and Takao gets a job at a factory in Tokyo but keeps trying to draw for the magazines. One day, he goes to Tokiwa to visit Ishinomori, but Shotaro had gone back to Miyagi prefecture, and this is when he stays with Fujio for the soup incident. He then quits his factory job, starts getting part-time work as Fujio's assistant, and spends more time at Tokiwa. (One side story is of Terada's mixed drink invention - the "chuda-" (shochu mixed with cider).
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