COMIC ARTIST

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 1,773,247 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Naoki Urasawa is the 25th most popular comic artist (up from 45th in 2019), the 294th most popular biography from Japan (up from 534th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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  • 30

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  • 6.23

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  • 2.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Naoki Urasawa ranks 25 out of 226. Before him are Rumiko Takahashi, Bob Kane, Eiichiro Oda, Milo Manara, Georges Wolinski, and Kentaro Miura. After him are Alan Moore, Go Nagai, Quino, Steve Ditko, Don Rosa, and André Franquin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Naoki Urasawa ranks 51. Before him are Jorge Sampaoli, Nena, Hiroyuki Sanada, Gustavo Petro, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Lepa Brena. After him are Neil Gaiman, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Damon Hill, Michael Nyqvist, Jafar Panahi, and Jennifer Grey.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Naoki Urasawa ranks 294 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Bidatsu (538), Konishi Yukinaga (1555), Hiroyuki Sanada (1960), Emperor Go-Nijō (1285), Ichiyō Higuchi (1872), and Akira Yoshizawa (1911). After him are Emperor Yūryaku (418), Akira Nozawa (1914), Chūya Nakahara (1907), Kunitaka Sueoka (1917), Maeda Toshiie (1538), and Mamoru Shigemitsu (1887).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Naoki Urasawa ranks 8. Before him are Akira Toriyama (1955), Leiji Matsumoto (1938), Tsugumi Ohba (1950), Rumiko Takahashi (1957), Eiichiro Oda (1975), and Kentaro Miura (1966). After him are Go Nagai (1945), Yoshihiro Togashi (1966), Hirohiko Araki (1960), Katsuhiro Otomo (1954), Shigeru Mizuki (1922), and Shotaro Ishinomori (1938).

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