COMIC ARTIST

Hiromu Arakawa

1973 - Today

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Hiromu Arakawa (荒川 弘, Arakawa Hiromu, born May 8, 1973) is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known for the manga series Fullmetal Alchemist (2001–2010), which became a hit both domestically and internationally, and was adapted into two anime television series. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hiromu Arakawa has received more than 1,805,434 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Hiromu Arakawa is the 78th most popular comic artist (down from 77th in 2019), the 977th most popular biography from Japan (down from 908th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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  • 2.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Hiromu Arakawa ranks 78 out of 226Before her are Jim Davis, Richard F. Outcault, Kazuki Takahashi, Francisco Ibáñez Talavera, Mitsuteru Yokoyama, and Kazuo Koike. After her are Machiko Hasegawa, Jean Van Hamme, Al Taliaferro, Chica Umino, Quentin Blake, and Hermann Huppen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1973, Hiromu Arakawa ranks 87Before her are Jan Ullrich, Verka Serduchka, Shota Arveladze, James Marsden, Martín Palermo, and Nikolai Valuev. After her are Brandi Love, Seth MacFarlane, Eva Herzigová, Holly Marie Combs, ATB, and David Belle.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hiromu Arakawa ranks 977 out of 6,245Before her are Hiroshi Ninomiya (1937), Akashi Motojiro (1864), Ennin (793), Kazuo Koike (1936), Abe Masahiro (1819), and Nobuo Uematsu (1959). After her are Shinji Mikami (1965), Machiko Hasegawa (1920), Misuzu Kaneko (1903), Yoko Shimada (1953), Yukio Goto (null), and Yasuhiko Okudera (1952).

Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Hiromu Arakawa ranks 27Before her are Takehiko Inoue (1967), Yoshito Usui (1958), Takeshi Obata (1969), Kazuki Takahashi (1961), Mitsuteru Yokoyama (1934), and Kazuo Koike (1936). After her are Machiko Hasegawa (1920), Chica Umino (null), Moto Hagio (1949), Tetsuya Chiba (1939), Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (1962), and Sanpei Shirato (1932).