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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 213,194 page views. His biography is available in 94 different languages on Wikipedia. Ichirou Mizuki is the 432nd most popular composer (up from 433rd in 2019), the 432nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 437th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 210k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 94

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 7.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Ichirou Mizuki ranks 432 out of 1,216. Before him are Mykola Lysenko, Ferdinand Hiller, Charles Auguste de Bériot, Nikolai Medtner, Claudio Merulo, and Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe. After him are William Walton, Ariel Ramírez, Vasily Kalinnikov, Pēteris Vasks, Franz Schreker, and Francesco Maria Veracini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Ichirou Mizuki ranks 114. Before him are Joschka Fischer, Michel Suleiman, Hartmut Michel, Alia Al-Hussein, James Ellroy, and Roger Williamson. After him are Christopher A. Pissarides, Mark Phillips, Jimmy Choo, Amadou Toumani Touré, Carel Struycken, and Christa McAuliffe. Among people deceased in 2022, Ichirou Mizuki ranks 102. Before him are Jean-Claude Mézières, Ruggero Deodato, Yuri Averbakh, David Warner, Borislav Ivkov, and Mino Raiola. After him are Richard Leakey, Javier Marías, Ronnie Hellström, Fatma Girik, Máté Fenyvesi, and George Crumb.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ichirou Mizuki ranks 432 out of 6,048. Before him are Satoshi Kon (1963), Emperor Daigo (885), Emperor Shijō (1231), Ono no Komachi (825), Nobuo Matsunaga (1921), and Emperor Go-Suzaku (1009). After him are Eiichiro Oda (1975), Takeo Fukuda (1905), Emperor Go-Hanazono (1419), Shoichi Nishimura (1912), Shiro Azumi (null), and Ryū Murakami (1952).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Ichirou Mizuki ranks 4. Before him are Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952), Toru Takemitsu (1930), and Koichi Sugiyama (1931). After him are Miki Matsubara (1959), Shunsuke Kikuchi (1931), Keiko Abe (1937), Nobuo Uematsu (1959), Kenji Kawai (1957), Akira Ifukube (1914), Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933), and Yasushi Akutagawa (1925).

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