COMIC ARTIST

Masamune Shirow

1961 - Today

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Masanori Ota (太田正典, Ōta Masanori, born November 23, 1961), better known by his pen name Masamune Shirow (士郎 正宗, Shirō Masamune), is a Japanese manga artist. Shirow is best known for the manga Ghost in the Shell, which has since been turned into three theatrical anime films, two anime television series, an anime television film, an anime ONA series, a theatrical live action film, and several video games. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Masamune Shirow has received more than 1,027,488 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Masamune Shirow is the 100th most popular comic artist (down from 91st in 2019), the 1,159th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,015th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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  • 56.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Masamune Shirow ranks 100 out of 226. Before him are Lee Falk, Jijé, Willy Vandersteen, Juan Giménez, Jean-Claude Mézières, and Hajime Isayama. After him are Tsukasa Hojo, Yumiko Igarashi, Floyd Gottfredson, Greg, Jacques Martin, and Hiro Mashima.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Masamune Shirow ranks 207. Before him are John Corbett, Fatou Bensouda, Raymond Cruz, Brendan Eich, Lars Olsen, and Matjaž Kek. After him are Hasmik Papian, Athanasius Schneider, Yang Mi-kyung, Hideo Nakata, Māris Kučinskis, and Liu Gang.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masamune Shirow ranks 1,159 out of 6,245. Before him are Yasushi Akimoto (1958), Akemi Iwata (1954), Shozo Sasahara (1929), Yōko Ogawa (1962), Masato Harada (1949), and Ayako Wakao (1933). After him are Gozo Shioda (1915), Tsukasa Hojo (1959), Kenjiro Tsuda (1971), Hirotugu Akaike (1927), Masayuki Uemura (1943), and Mutsuhiro Watanabe (1918).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Masamune Shirow ranks 35. Before him are Chica Umino (null), Moto Hagio (1949), Tetsuya Chiba (1939), Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (1962), Sanpei Shirato (1932), and Hajime Isayama (1986). After him are Tsukasa Hojo (1959), Yumiko Igarashi (1950), Hiro Mashima (1977), Yōichi Takahashi (1960), Nobuhiro Watsuki (1970), and Keiko Takemiya (1950).

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