COMIC ARTIST

Akira Toriyama

1955 - 2024

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Akira Toriyama (Japanese: 鳥山明, Hepburn: Toriyama Akira, April 5, 1955 – March 1, 2024) was a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He came to be regarded as one of the most important authors in the history of manga, authoring highly influential and popular series, particularly Dragon Ball. Toriyama first achieved mainstream recognition for creating the manga series Dr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Akira Toriyama has received more than 9,210,443 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Akira Toriyama is the 5th most popular comic artist (up from 9th in 2019), the 70th most popular biography from Japan (up from 85th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

Akira Toriyama is most famous for his manga series, Dragon Ball.

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  • 9.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Akira Toriyama ranks 5 out of 226. Before him are Stan Lee, Osamu Tezuka, René Goscinny, and Hergé. After him are Albert Uderzo, Peyo, Joseph Barbera, Carl Barks, Jean Giraud, Hugo Pratt, and Morris.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Akira Toriyama ranks 20. Before him are Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Willem Dafoe, Isabelle Adjani, Guillermo Lasso, Sergey Shoygu, and Li Keqiang. After him are Angus Young, Mo Yan, Ludovico Einaudi, Héctor Cúper, Olga Korbut, and Valery Gerasimov. Among people deceased in 2024, Akira Toriyama ranks 25. Before him are Hassan Nasrallah, Princess Birgitta of Sweden, Françoise Hardy, Sebastián Piñera, Alexei Navalny, and Luigi Riva. After him are Johan Galtung, Niklaus Wirth, Frank Farian, Carl Weathers, Quincy Jones, and Roger Guillemin.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Akira Toriyama ranks 70 out of 6,245. Before him are Kane Tanaka (1903), Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837), Hideki Yukawa (1907), Kenzō Tange (1913), and Fumio Kishida (1957). After him are Uesugi Kenshin (1530), Shirō Ishii (1892), Date Masamune (1567), Sonny Chiba (1939), Kazuo Ishiguro (1954), and Utamaro (1753).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Akira Toriyama ranks 2. Before him are Osamu Tezuka (1928). After him are Leiji Matsumoto (1938), Tsugumi Ohba (1950), Rumiko Takahashi (1957), Eiichiro Oda (1975), Kentaro Miura (1966), Naoki Urasawa (1960), Go Nagai (1945), Yoshihiro Togashi (1966), Hirohiko Araki (1960), and Katsuhiro Otomo (1954).

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