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Inio Asano

1980 - Today

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Inio Asano (Japanese: 浅野 いにお, Hepburn: Asano Inio; born September 22, 1980) is a Japanese manga artist. Asano created the acclaimed manga series Solanin, which was released as a feature film in Japan in April 2010, starring Aoi Miyazaki. He is also famous for the series Goodnight Punpun and Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction. Known for creating character-driven, realist stories, ranging from slice of life to psychological horror, Asano won first prize in the 2001 GX competition for young manga artists. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2024). Inio Asano is the 162nd most popular comic artist (down from 139th in 2024), the 1,882nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,466th in 2019) and the 59th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Inio Asano ranks 162 out of 226. Before him are Norihiro Yagi, Harvey Kurtzman, Eduardo Risso, Neal Adams, Mike Mignola, and Seishi Kishimoto. After him are Mort Walker, Yoshitoshi ABe, Marv Wolfman, Oh! great, Jim Starlin, and Alison Bechdel.

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Among people born in 1980, Inio Asano ranks 221. Before him are Yuichi Nakamura, Zachary Levi, Katrine Lunde, Diego Pérez, Francisco Pavón, and Margarita Simonyan. After him are Yekaterina Gamova, Sebastian Deisler, Sachio Yoshida, Stuart Taylor, Samaire Armstrong, and Katalin Vad.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Inio Asano ranks 1,882 out of 6,245. Before him are Ryu Miyamoto (1992), Ryo Oishi (1977), Tamon Machida (1982), Masaru Arai (1952), Seishi Kishimoto (1974), and Takaki Shigemitsu (1983). After him are Norifumi Abe (1975), Kensuke Tsukuda (1977), Miyuki Miyabe (1960), Princess Kako of Akishino (1994), Shinji Hosokawa (1960), and Sachio Yoshida (1980).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Inio Asano ranks 59. Before him are Hiroya Oku (1967), Momoko Sakura (1965), Makoto Yukimura (1976), Lynn Okamoto (1970), Norihiro Yagi (1968), and Seishi Kishimoto (1974). After him are Yoshitoshi ABe (1971), Oh! great (1972), Tooru Fujisawa (1967), Yuu Watase (1970), Atsushi Ohkubo (1979), and Hiroyuki Takei (1972).

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