COMPOSER

Ichirou Mizuki

1948 - 2022

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Toshio Hayakawa (早川 俊夫, Hayakawa Toshio, January 7, 1948 – December 6, 2022), better known by his stage name Ichirou Mizuki (水木 一郎, Mizuki Ichirō), was a Japanese singer, lyricist, composer, voice actor and actor best known for his work on theme songs for anime and tokusatsu. For over 50 years, he had recorded over 1,200 songs for Japanese film, television, video and video games. He was referred to by fans and fellow performers alike as the Aniki (アニキ, "big brother") of the anison, or anime music genre. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ichirou Mizuki has received more than 226,531 page views. His biography is available in 95 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 94 in 2019). Ichirou Mizuki is the 355th most popular composer (up from 432nd in 2019), the 355th most popular biography from Japan (up from 430th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Composer.

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  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 95

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 7.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Ichirou Mizuki ranks 355 out of 1,451. Before him are Johann Kuhnau, Germaine Tailleferre, Karl Richter, Vladimir Cosma, Josef Rheinberger, and Hugo Riemann. After him are Michel Richard Delalande, Jacobus Gallus, Samuel Scheidt, Ignaz Moscheles, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Willem Mengelberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Ichirou Mizuki ranks 101. Before him are Mischa Maisky, Barbara Hershey, Nicolae Timofti, Jesper Christensen, Toshio Suzuki, and Stevie Nicks. After him are Shaul Mofaz, Billy Crystal, Don Airey, Salvador Puig Antich, Akira Yoshino, and Mark Phillips. Among people deceased in 2022, Ichirou Mizuki ranks 84. Before him are Wim Jansen, Eric Walter Elst, Leonel Sánchez, Luis Echeverría, Peter Bogdanovich, and Jürgen Grabowski. After him are Fred Ward, Saul Kripke, A. B. Yehoshua, David Sassoli, Margaret Keane, and Evaristo Carvalho.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ichirou Mizuki ranks 355 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Go-Toba (1180), Toshio Suzuki (1948), Takashi Kasahara (1918), Sadaharu Oh (1940), Kazuyoshi Nakamura (1955), and Taira no Masakado (903). After him are Hishikawa Moronobu (1618), Emperor Chūkyō (1218), Emperor Rokujō (1164), Yasuo Takamori (1934), Hideaki Anno (1960), and Emperor Kōbun (648).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Ichirou Mizuki ranks 2. Before him are Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952). After him are Toru Takemitsu (1930), Miki Matsubara (1959), Shunsuke Kikuchi (1931), Kenji Kawai (1957), Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933), Koichi Sugiyama (1931), Koji Kondo (1961), Keiko Abe (1937), Nobuo Uematsu (1959), and Akira Ifukube (1914).

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