WRITER

Ai Yazawa

1967 - Today

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Ai Yazawa (矢沢 あい, Yazawa Ai, born March 7, 1967) is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator. Yazawa debuted as a manga artist with her short story Ano Natsu (1985). She gained mainstream popularity in the 1990s and 2000s with her series Tenshi Nanka ja Nai (1992), Neighborhood Story (1995), Paradise Kiss (1999), and Nana (2000), the latter being one of the best-selling manga series. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ai Yazawa has received more than 885,831 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Ai Yazawa is the 3,318th most popular writer (up from 3,401st in 2019), the 946th most popular biography from Japan (down from 923rd in 2019) and the 75th most popular Japanese Writer.

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  • 890k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ai Yazawa ranks 3,318 out of 7,302. Before her are Bernhard Grzimek, Nossis, Alexander Dukhnovych, Enrique Vila-Matas, Ibn Warraq, and Igor Gouzenko. After her are Maryana Marrash, Marcellus of Ancyra, Zofia Posmysz, Arnold Wesker, Robert McKee, and Mirza Alakbar Sabir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Ai Yazawa ranks 109. Before her are John Petrucci, Dave Matthews, Kellyanne Conway, Luis Abinader, Saara Kuugongelwa, and Sandrine Bonnaire. After her are Satya Nadella, Naser Orić, Yordan Letchkov, Sue Gardner, Chris Benoit, and Layne Staley.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ai Yazawa ranks 946 out of 6,245. Before her are Takeshi Obata (1969), Ryuzo Shimizu (1902), Matsumura Sōkon (1809), Takeshi Ono (1944), Kuroda Seiki (1866), and Hiroshi Sugimoto (1948). After her are Miyoshi Umeki (1929), Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu (1875), Tomoyuki Tanaka (1910), Saburō Kawabuchi (1936), Uichiro Hatta (1903), and Yoshitada Yamaguchi (1944).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Ai Yazawa ranks 75. Before her are Takeo Arishima (1878), Fumiko Hayashi (1903), Ozaki Kōyō (1868), Naoya Shiga (1883), Kan Kikuchi (1888), and Futabatei Shimei (1864). After her are Itō Noe (1895), Kafū Nagai (1879), Nobuko Yoshiya (1896), Ennin (793), Misuzu Kaneko (1903), and Hiratsuka Raichō (1886).

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