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Naoki Urasawa

1960 - Today

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Naoki Urasawa (Japanese: 浦沢 直樹, Hepburn: Urasawa Naoki, born January 2, 1960) is a Japanese manga artist and musician. He has been drawing manga since he was four years old, and for most of his professional career has created two series simultaneously. The stories to many of these were co-written in collaboration with his former editor, Takashi Nagasaki. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Naoki Urasawa has received more than 1,515,896 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Naoki Urasawa is the 45th most popular comic artist (up from 51st in 2019), the 536th most popular biography from Japan (up from 690th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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  • 55.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Naoki Urasawa ranks 45 out of 174. Before him are Kentaro Miura, Yoshihiro Togashi, Philippe Honoré, Shotaro Ishinomori, Gosho Aoyama, and Shigeru Mizuki. After him are Guillermo Mordillo, Caran d'Ache, Monkey Punch, Charles M. Schulz, Enki Bilal, and Frank Miller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Naoki Urasawa ranks 75. Before him are Daryl Hannah, Mark Rylance, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Gia Carangi, Erin Brockovich, and Fayez al-Sarraj. After him are Samia Suluhu Hassan, Melissa Leo, Lepa Brena, Abdullah Abdullah, Tony Robbins, and Željko Obradović.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Naoki Urasawa ranks 536 out of 6,048. Before him are Gosho Aoyama (1963), Masayoshi Ōhira (1910), Shigeru Mizuki (1922), Kinuyo Tanaka (1909), Yōsuke Matsuoka (1880), and Emperor Junnin (733). After him are Mako (1933), Tokugawa Ieharu (1737), Mariya Takeuchi (1955), Tatsuya Shiji (1938), Toshio Suzuki (1948), and Shinran (1173).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Naoki Urasawa ranks 16. Before him are Eiichiro Oda (1975), Kentaro Miura (1966), Yoshihiro Togashi (1966), Shotaro Ishinomori (1938), Gosho Aoyama (1963), and Shigeru Mizuki (1922). After him are Monkey Punch (1937), Naoko Takeuchi (1967), Riyoko Ikeda (1947), Takeshi Obata (1969), Masami Kurumada (1953), and Mitsuru Adachi (1951).

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