COMIC ARTIST

Masami Kurumada

1953 - Today

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Masami Kurumada (車田 正美, Kurumada Masami, born December 6, 1953) is a Japanese manga artist and writer, known for specializing in fighting manga featuring bishōnen and magical boys. He is the founder of the manga studio Kurumada Productions or Kurumadapro for short. He achieved fame as the creator of popular manga, such as Ring ni Kakero, Fūma no Kojirō, Saint Seiya and B't X. The male characters in his works often display very masculine qualities and traits, and display courage through sacrifice, selflessness and true heroism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Masami Kurumada has received more than 332,582 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Masami Kurumada is the 52nd most popular comic artist (up from 62nd in 2019), the 723rd most popular biography from Japan (up from 769th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Masami Kurumada ranks 52 out of 226. Before him are Monkey Punch, Masashi Kishimoto, Riyoko Ikeda, Frank Miller, Naoko Takeuchi, and Charles M. Schulz. After him are Émile Cohl, Guido Crepax, Marjane Satrapi, Enki Bilal, Marco Rota, and Saul Steinberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Masami Kurumada ranks 123. Before him are Halid Bešlić, Massimo Troisi, Michael Bolton, Huub Stevens, Ziyad al-Nakhalah, and Tico Torres. After him are Arielle Dombasle, Ahmad Sa'adat, Kathleen Kennedy, Ewald Lienen, Myung-whun Chung, and Norman Finkelstein.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masami Kurumada ranks 723 out of 6,245. Before him are Ki no Tsurayuki (866), Toshio Hirabayashi (null), Kozo Arai (1950), Yamamoto Kansuke (1493), Isamu Chō (1895), and Shigeo Shingo (1909). After him are Fukusaburo Harada (null), Ikki Kita (1883), Motoo Kimura (1924), Takao Nishiyama (1942), Masabumi Hosono (1870), and Taisen Deshimaru (1914).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Masami Kurumada ranks 20. Before him are Shotaro Ishinomori (1938), Gosho Aoyama (1963), Monkey Punch (1937), Masashi Kishimoto (1974), Riyoko Ikeda (1947), and Naoko Takeuchi (1967). After him are Takehiko Inoue (1967), Yoshito Usui (1958), Takeshi Obata (1969), Kazuki Takahashi (1961), Mitsuteru Yokoyama (1934), and Kazuo Koike (1936).

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