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Ken Sugimori

1966 - Today

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Ken Sugimori (Japanese: 杉森 建, Hepburn: Sugimori Ken, born January 27, 1966 in Fukuoka, Japan) is a Japanese video game designer, illustrator, manga artist, and director. He is best known as the primary character designer and art director for the Pokémon franchise. Sugimori is also credited with the art direction for other titles, including Pulseman. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ken Sugimori has received more than 981,119 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Ken Sugimori is the 127th most popular comic artist (down from 116th in 2019), the 1,282nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,195th in 2019) and the 45th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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  • 980k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Ken Sugimori ranks 127 out of 174. Before him are Ken Akamatsu, Yōichi Takahashi, Jamie Hewlett, Sylvain Chomet, Rudolph Dirks, and Iginio Straffi. After him are Mauri Kunnas, François Bourgeon, Tsutomu Nihei, John Buscema, George Herriman, and Seishi Kishimoto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Ken Sugimori ranks 232. Before him are Akhrik Tsveiba, Michael Cohen, Greg Grunberg, Alberto Acosta, Najwa Karam, and Henrik Larsen. After him are Vladimir Alekno, Marco Beltrami, Shirley Manson, Kerstin Gier, Ramón Medina Bello, and Jee Seok-jin.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ken Sugimori ranks 1,282 out of 6,048. Before him are Mamoru Mohri (1948), Mana (1969), Masahiro Hasemi (1945), Katsuyuki Kawachi (1955), Makoto Hasebe (1984), and Shōichi Nakagawa (1953). After him are Kozo Tashima (1957), Koichi Kudo (1909), Shin-ichiro Miki (1968), Eiji Kawashima (1983), Masako Yoshida (1957), and Toshihiko Seki (1962).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Ken Sugimori ranks 45. Before him are Moto Hagio (1949), Masakazu Katsura (1962), Tite Kubo (1977), Yukito Kishiro (1967), Ken Akamatsu (1968), and Yōichi Takahashi (1960). After him are Tsutomu Nihei (1971), Seishi Kishimoto (1974), Hiroyuki Takei (1972), Moyoco Anno (1971), Kouta Hirano (1973), and Tooru Fujisawa (1967).

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