COMIC ARTIST

Kentaro Miura

1966 - 2021

Photo of Kentaro Miura

Icon of person Kentaro Miura

Kentaro Miura (Japanese: 三浦 建太郎, Hepburn: Miura Kentarō, July 11, 1966 – May 6, 2021) was a Japanese manga artist. He was best known for his dark fantasy series Berserk, which began serialization in 1989 and continued until his death. By 2023, Berserk had over 60 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kentaro Miura has received more than 3,894,648 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Kentaro Miura is the 24th most popular comic artist (up from 39th in 2019), the 278th most popular biography from Japan (up from 480th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Kentaro Miura ranks 24 out of 226. Before him are Jean-Jacques Sempé, Rumiko Takahashi, Bob Kane, Eiichiro Oda, Milo Manara, and Georges Wolinski. After him are Naoki Urasawa, Alan Moore, Go Nagai, Quino, Steve Ditko, and Don Rosa.

Most Popular Comic Artists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Kentaro Miura ranks 22. Before him are Mikhail Mishustin, David Cameron, Alessandro Costacurta, Zoran Milanović, Robin Wright, and David Schwimmer. After him are Julen Lopetegui, Luke Perry, Cláudio Taffarel, Erdoğan Atalay, Sinéad O'Connor, and Janet Jackson. Among people deceased in 2021, Kentaro Miura ranks 72. Before him are Ion Mihai Pacepa, Hal Holbrook, Lina Wertmüller, Jean-Luc Nancy, Pat Hitchcock, and John McAfee. After him are Abdul Qadeer Khan, Tamara Press, Larry Flynt, Milva, Mamnoon Hussain, and Walter Mondale.

Others Born in 1966

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 2021

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kentaro Miura ranks 278 out of 6,245. Before him are Eiji Yoshikawa (1892), Empress Shōken (1849), Ashikaga Yoshiaki (1537), Emperor Seinei (444), Susumu Tonegawa (1939), and Inejiro Asanuma (1898). After him are Tokugawa Ietsuna (1641), Tomiichi Murayama (1924), Emperor Shōmu (701), Takashi Kano (1920), Emperor Kazan (967), and Yosa Buson (1716).

Others born in Japan

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Kentaro Miura ranks 7. Before him are Osamu Tezuka (1928), Akira Toriyama (1955), Leiji Matsumoto (1938), Tsugumi Ohba (1950), Rumiko Takahashi (1957), and Eiichiro Oda (1975). After him are Naoki Urasawa (1960), Go Nagai (1945), Yoshihiro Togashi (1966), Hirohiko Araki (1960), Katsuhiro Otomo (1954), and Shigeru Mizuki (1922).

Japanese born Comic Artists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous