COMIC ARTIST

Moto Hagio

1949 - Today

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Moto Hagio (萩尾 望都, Hagio Moto, born May 12, 1949) is a Japanese manga artist. Regarded for her contributions to shōjo manga (manga aimed at young and adolescent women), Hagio is considered the most significant artist in the demographic and among the most influential manga artists of all time, being referred to as the "god of shōjo manga" (少女漫画の神様, shōjo manga no kami-sama) by critics. Hagio made her debut as a manga artist in 1969 at the publishing company Kodansha before moving to Shogakukan in 1971, where she was able to publish her more radical and unconventional works that had been rejected by other publishers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Moto Hagio has received more than 257,169 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Moto Hagio is the 85th most popular comic artist (up from 108th in 2019), the 1,023rd most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,130th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Moto Hagio ranks 85 out of 226. Before her are Machiko Hasegawa, Jean Van Hamme, Al Taliaferro, Chica Umino, Quentin Blake, and Hermann Huppen. After her are Jean-Michel Charlier, Tetsuya Chiba, Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri, Sergio Toppi, and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Moto Hagio ranks 301. Before her are Habib Essid, Gérard Larcher, Frankie Faison, Alfred Riedl, Luigi Serafini, and Hamadi Jebali. After her are Ricardo Zunino, Jim Varney, Zoran Slavnić, Ivan Buljan, Véronique Sanson, and Volodymyr Ivasyuk.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Moto Hagio ranks 1,023 out of 6,245. Before her are Katsukawa Shunshō (1726), Damo Suzuki (1950), Homare Sawa (1978), Toyohiko Kagawa (1888), Ogyū Sorai (1666), and Hiroshi Nakajima (1928). After her are Hisashi Owada (1932), Yuko Shimizu (1946), Tatsumi Kimishima (1950), Ōmura Masujirō (1824), Edwin O. Reischauer (1910), and Akira Terao (1947).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Moto Hagio ranks 30. Before her are Kazuki Takahashi (1961), Mitsuteru Yokoyama (1934), Kazuo Koike (1936), Hiromu Arakawa (1973), Machiko Hasegawa (1920), and Chica Umino (null). After her are Tetsuya Chiba (1939), Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (1962), Sanpei Shirato (1932), Hajime Isayama (1986), Masamune Shirow (1961), and Tsukasa Hojo (1959).

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