COMIC ARTIST

Kōhei Horikoshi

1986 - Today

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Kōhei Horikoshi (堀越 耕平, Horikoshi Kōhei, born November 20, 1986) is a Japanese manga artist known for creating the manga series Oumagadoki Zoo, Barrage, and My Hero Academia, all of which have been serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump. His latter work had over 100 million copies in circulation by April 2024, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. Horikoshi is a graduate of Toho High School and Nagoya University of Arts and is a native of Aichi Prefecture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kōhei Horikoshi has received more than 1,319,942 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Kōhei Horikoshi is the 177th most popular comic artist, the 1,760th most popular biography from Japan and the 64th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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  • 1.92

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Kōhei Horikoshi ranks 177 out of 226Before him are Harvey Pekar, Bill Watterson, Scott Adams, Kōsuke Fujishima, One, and Peter Laird. After him are Katsura Hoshino, Robert Kirkman, Scott McCloud, Yoshitoshi ABe, Joe Kubert, and Garth Ennis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1986, Kōhei Horikoshi ranks 195Before him are Elly Akira, Reto Ziegler, Valeri Bojinov, Yon González, Keiko Kitagawa, and Daniel Sharman. After him are Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon, Inbar Lavi, Yunho, Barbora Strýcová, Sergio Rodríguez, and DJ Snake.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kōhei Horikoshi ranks 1,760 out of 6,245Before him are Yui Hatano (1988), Genki Haraguchi (1991), Yuriko Shima (1959), Katsuo Takaishi (1906), Keiko Kitagawa (1986), and Yasuharu Kurata (1963). After him are Nobuyuki Kojima (1966), Michie Tomizawa (1961), Kin Endate (1960), Kenzo Suzuki (1950), Kinuko Tanida (1939), and Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (1986).

Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Kōhei Horikoshi ranks 64Before him are Yuu Watase (1970), Makoto Yukimura (1976), Moyoco Anno (1971), Oh! great (1972), Hiroyuki Takei (1972), and One (1986). After him are Katsura Hoshino (1980), Yoshitoshi ABe (1971), Arina Tanemura (1978), Koyoharu Gotouge (1989), Natsuki Takaya (1973), and Nisio Isin (1981).