COMIC ARTIST

Katsura Hoshino

1980 - Today

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Katsura Hoshino (Japanese: 星野 桂, Hepburn: Hoshino Katsura, born April 21, 1980) is a Japanese manga artist from Shiga Prefecture. She made her debut in July 2003 with the publication of her first manga series Continue and is known for her work, D.Gray-man, which began serialization in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump in May 2004. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Katsura Hoshino has received more than 428,094 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Katsura Hoshino is the 178th most popular comic artist (down from 172nd in 2019), the 1,775th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,686th in 2019) and the 65th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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  • 430k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Katsura Hoshino ranks 178 out of 226Before her are Bill Watterson, Scott Adams, Kōsuke Fujishima, One, Peter Laird, and Kōhei Horikoshi. After her are Robert Kirkman, Scott McCloud, Yoshitoshi ABe, Joe Kubert, Garth Ennis, and Arina Tanemura.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1980, Katsura Hoshino ranks 242Before her are Ibrahim Maalouf, Rabiu Afolabi, Lee Jung-soo, Antônio Pizzonia, Paulo da Silva, and Nick Nuyens. After her are Juan Arango, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Vibeke Skofterud, Bamlak Tessema Weyesa, Lucy Gordon, and Ellie Kemper.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Katsura Hoshino ranks 1,775 out of 6,245Before her are Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (1986), Takashi Inui (1988), Yuzo Koshiro (1967), Shinji Nakano (1971), Koda Kumi (1982), and Toshihiko Koga (1967). After her are Nobuhiro Takeda (1967), Yutaka Ikeuchi (1961), Yasunori Mitsuda (1972), Ai Sugiyama (1975), Hideki Tsukamoto (1973), and Phyllis A. Whitney (1903).

Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Katsura Hoshino ranks 65Before her are Makoto Yukimura (1976), Moyoco Anno (1971), Oh! great (1972), Hiroyuki Takei (1972), One (1986), and Kōhei Horikoshi (1986). After her are Yoshitoshi ABe (1971), Arina Tanemura (1978), Koyoharu Gotouge (1989), Natsuki Takaya (1973), Nisio Isin (1981), and Nakaba Suzuki (1977).