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Akira Toriyama

1955 - Today

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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 first achieved mainstream recognition for creating the popular manga series Dr. Slump, before going on to create Dragon Ball (his most famous work) and acting as a character designer for several popular video games such as the Dragon Quest series, Chrono Trigger, and Blue Dragon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Akira Toriyama has received more than 4,813,591 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Akira Toriyama is the 9th most popular comic artist (down from 8th in 2019), the 85th most popular biography from Japan (down from 79th 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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  • 4.8M

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  • 64.60

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  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Akira Toriyama ranks 9 out of 174Before him are Osamu Tezuka, René Goscinny, Albert Uderzo, Joseph Barbera, Jean Giraud, and Carl Barks. After him are Peyo, Hugo Pratt, Matt Groening, Zdeněk Miler, Jack Kirby, and Bob Kane.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Akira Toriyama ranks 24Before him are Li Keqiang, Ludovico Einaudi, Mo Yan, Nina Hagen, Donatella Versace, and Guillermo Lasso. After him are Chow Yun-fat, Liu Xiaobo, Marcelo Bielsa, Kris Jenner, Billy Bob Thornton, and Dodi Fayed.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Akira Toriyama ranks 85 out of 6,048Before him are Nichiren (1222), Emperor Nakamikado (1702), Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916), Tomoe Gozen (1157), Emperor Annei (-577), and Dōgen (1200). After him are Empress Go-Sakuramachi (1740), Syukuro Manabe (1931), Hasekura Tsunenaga (1571), Benkei (1155), Chiune Sugihara (1900), and Emperor Itoku (-553).

Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Akira Toriyama ranks 2Before him are Osamu Tezuka (1928). After him are Tsugumi Ohba (1950), Rumiko Takahashi (1957), Go Nagai (1945), Leiji Matsumoto (1938), Hirohiko Araki (1960), Masashi Kishimoto (1974), Katsuhiro Otomo (1954), Eiichiro Oda (1975), Kentaro Miura (1966), and Yoshihiro Togashi (1966).