COMIC ARTIST

Kazuo Koike

1936 - 2019

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Kazuo Koike (小池 一夫, Koike Kazuo, May 8, 1936 – April 17, 2019) was a prolific Japanese manga writer (gensakusha), novelist, screenwriter, lyricist and entrepreneur. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kazuo Koike has received more than 297,541 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Kazuo Koike is the 77th most popular comic artist (down from 72nd in 2019), the 974th most popular biography from Japan (down from 874th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 300k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Kazuo Koike ranks 77 out of 226. Before him are Tignous, Jim Davis, Richard F. Outcault, Kazuki Takahashi, Francisco Ibáñez Talavera, and Mitsuteru Yokoyama. After him are Hiromu Arakawa, Machiko Hasegawa, Jean Van Hamme, Al Taliaferro, Chica Umino, and Quentin Blake.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Kazuo Koike ranks 257. Before him are Edvard Radzinsky, Paul Shenar, Saburō Kawabuchi, Walter Lewin, Ante Žanetić, and Francisco Ibáñez Talavera. After him are Michel Aumont, Feliciano Rivilla, Sancho Gracia, Albert Ayler, Judea Pearl, and Jair Marinho. Among people deceased in 2019, Kazuo Koike ranks 211. Before him are France-Albert René, Gyoji Matsumoto, Vladimir Etush, María Baxa, Achille Silvestrini, and Jan Olszewski. After him are Carol Lynley, Michel Aumont, Diahann Carroll, Martin Peters, Yuri Artsutanov, and Guillaume Faye.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kazuo Koike ranks 974 out of 6,245. Before him are Mitsuteru Yokoyama (1934), Nobuko Yoshiya (1896), Sayako Kuroda (1969), Hiroshi Ninomiya (1937), Akashi Motojiro (1864), and Ennin (793). After him are Abe Masahiro (1819), Nobuo Uematsu (1959), Hiromu Arakawa (1973), Shinji Mikami (1965), Machiko Hasegawa (1920), and Misuzu Kaneko (1903).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Kazuo Koike ranks 26. Before him are Masami Kurumada (1953), Takehiko Inoue (1967), Yoshito Usui (1958), Takeshi Obata (1969), Kazuki Takahashi (1961), and Mitsuteru Yokoyama (1934). After him are Hiromu Arakawa (1973), Machiko Hasegawa (1920), Chica Umino (null), Moto Hagio (1949), Tetsuya Chiba (1939), and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (1962).

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