COMIC ARTIST

Gosho Aoyama

1963 - Today

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Gosho Aoyama (Japanese: 青山 剛昌, Hepburn: Aoyama Gōshō, born June 21, 1963) is a Japanese manga artist best known for his manga series Case Closed (Detective Conan, 1994–present). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gosho Aoyama has received more than 655,061 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Gosho Aoyama is the 43rd most popular comic artist, the 558th most popular biography from Japan (down from 528th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 660k

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  • 56.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Gosho Aoyama ranks 43 out of 226Before him are Shigeru Mizuki, Will Eisner, Philippe Honoré, Caran d'Ache, Shotaro Ishinomori, and Guillermo Mordillo. After him are Charles Addams, Bill Finger, Monkey Punch, Masashi Kishimoto, Riyoko Ikeda, and Frank Miller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Gosho Aoyama ranks 75Before him are Steven Soderbergh, Jennifer Beals, Seal, Mike Pompeo, Joey Tempest, and May-Britt Moser. After him are Carlos Kaiser, Suha Arafat, Mikael Persbrandt, Jason Isaacs, Kai Hansen, and Srečko Katanec.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Gosho Aoyama ranks 558 out of 6,245Before him are Shibata Katsuie (1522), Fumihito, Prince Akishino (1965), Ankō Itosu (1831), Jiro Taniguchi (1947), Ken Kutaragi (1950), and Hosokawa Gracia (1563). After him are Mikio Naruse (1905), Kiyosi Itô (1915), Emperor Horikawa (1079), Hibari Misora (1937), Hiroshi Amano (1960), and Sakanoue no Tamuramaro (758).

Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Gosho Aoyama ranks 15Before him are Go Nagai (1945), Yoshihiro Togashi (1966), Hirohiko Araki (1960), Katsuhiro Otomo (1954), Shigeru Mizuki (1922), and Shotaro Ishinomori (1938). After him are Monkey Punch (1937), Masashi Kishimoto (1974), Riyoko Ikeda (1947), Naoko Takeuchi (1967), Masami Kurumada (1953), and Takehiko Inoue (1967).