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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 1,648,018 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Hiromu Arakawa is the 78th most popular comic artist (up from 84th in 2019), the 911th most popular biography from Japan (up from 951st in 2019) and the 29th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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  • 50.57

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  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.61

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  • 2.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Hiromu Arakawa ranks 78 out of 174Before her are Takehiko Inoue, Kazuo Koike, Yoshito Usui, Al Taliaferro, Fujio Akatsuka, and Mitsuteru Yokoyama. After her are Tetsuya Chiba, Jacques Tardi, Jean-Michel Charlier, Kazuki Takahashi, Héctor Germán Oesterheld, and Tignous.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1973, Hiromu Arakawa ranks 79Before her are Christian Panucci, Holly Marie Combs, Pharrell Williams, Fatih Akin, Hande Yener, and Brian Austin Green. After her are Corey Taylor, Ioan Gruffudd, Sasha Alexander, Luis Lacalle Pou, Jan Ullrich, and Tim Kang.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hiromu Arakawa ranks 911 out of 6,048Before her are Yasuzo Masumura (1924), Yoshiaki Kawajiri (1950), Kazuhiko Inoue (1954), Gorō Miyazaki (1967), Kazuhisa Kono (1950), and Tarō Okamoto (1911). After her are Tetsuya Chiba (1939), Teruki Miyamoto (1940), Kunimitsu Takahashi (1940), Ennin (793), Akira Matsunaga (1948), and Minoru Kobata (1946).

Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Hiromu Arakawa ranks 29Before her are Chica Umino (null), Machiko Hasegawa (1920), Takehiko Inoue (1967), Kazuo Koike (1936), Yoshito Usui (1958), and Mitsuteru Yokoyama (1934). After her are Tetsuya Chiba (1939), Kazuki Takahashi (1961), Sanpei Shirato (1932), Masamune Shirow (1961), Hiro Mashima (1977), and Hajime Isayama (1986).