After it ended in 2013, Valente began working on Radiant, which has received critical acclaim and an anime adaptation in 2018.

[5][6][7] As a teenager, Valente was a fan of Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball, as well as various works by Didier Tarquin.

[2] This inspired him to pursue a career in comic creation, which he began in 2004 with illustrations for The Four Princes of Ganahan [fr].

In 2015, thanks to help from manga artists Yusuke Murata and Hiro Mashima, Radiant became the first manfra to be published in the country.

[10] The series has also been acclaimed by critics, and received the Canal BD [fr]/J'aime lire comic award in 2015.