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COMIC ARTIST

Kentaro Miura

1966 - 2021

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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 acclaimed 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 3,607,061 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Kentaro Miura is the 39th most popular comic artist (up from 91st in 2019), the 482nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 988th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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  • 3.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Kentaro Miura ranks 39 out of 174. Before him are Masashi Kishimoto, Cabu, Katsuhiro Otomo, Eiichiro Oda, Saul Steinberg, and Bill Finger. After him are Yoshihiro Togashi, Philippe Honoré, Shotaro Ishinomori, Gosho Aoyama, Shigeru Mizuki, and Naoki Urasawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Kentaro Miura ranks 39. Before him are Stefan Edberg, Gianfranco Zola, Cláudio Taffarel, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Sinéad O'Connor, and Enrique Peña Nieto. After him are Yoshihiro Togashi, Erdoğan Atalay, Emmanuelle Seigner, Rinat Akhmetov, Billy Zane, and Alessandro Costacurta. Among people deceased in 2021, Kentaro Miura ranks 153. Before him are Verónica Forqué, Carlos Correia, Sabah Fakhri, Ali Mahdi Muhammad, Eric Carle, and Pat Martino. After him are Sergei Kovalev, Luis del Sol, Cloris Leachman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, James Levine, and Vladimir Shatalov.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kentaro Miura ranks 482 out of 6,048. Before him are Hidetoshi Nakata (1977), Minamoto no Sanetomo (1192), Masahiro Hamazaki (1940), Taira no Masakado (903), Mamoru Oshii (1951), and Akira Yoshino (1948). After him are Yoshihiro Togashi (1966), Yukio Tsuda (1917), Masaoka Shiki (1867), Fujiwara no Kamatari (614), Akiyuki Nosaka (1930), and Tokizo Ichihashi (1909).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Kentaro Miura ranks 11. Before him are Go Nagai (1945), Leiji Matsumoto (1938), Hirohiko Araki (1960), Masashi Kishimoto (1974), Katsuhiro Otomo (1954), and Eiichiro Oda (1975). After him are Yoshihiro Togashi (1966), Shotaro Ishinomori (1938), Gosho Aoyama (1963), Shigeru Mizuki (1922), Naoki Urasawa (1960), and Monkey Punch (1937).

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