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COMIC ARTIST

Nisio Isin

1981 - Today

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Nisio Isin (Japanese: 西尾 維新, Hepburn: Nishio Ishin, born 1981), stylized as NISIOISIN to emphasize the palindrome, is a pseudonymous Japanese novelist, manga author, and screenplay writer. Nisio debuted in 2002 with the novel The Beheading Cycle (the first in his Zaregoto series), which earned him the 23rd Mephisto Prize at twenty years of age. In 2005, he began his long-running Monogatari novel series, which was published in 29 volumes as of 2023, and was later adapted as a highly-successful animated series of the same name, produced by Shaft. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nisio Isin has received more than 825,385 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Nisio Isin is the 169th most popular comic artist (down from 154th in 2019), the 1,628th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,530th in 2019) and the 61st most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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  • 830k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 39.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Nisio Isin ranks 169 out of 174. Before him are Scott McCloud, Jim Lee, One, Alison Bechdel, Ronald Searle, and Walt Kelly. After him are Yoshitoshi ABe, Makoto Yukimura, Scott Adams, Katsura Hoshino, Shaun Tan, and Gary Larson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1981, Nisio Isin ranks 250. Before him are Marcus Tulio Tanaka, Mia Hansen-Løve, JJ Lin, Heurelho Gomes, Brian J. Smith, and Craig David. After him are Lee Sang-yoon, André Lotterer, Damiano Cunego, Ska Keller, Daniel Bryan, and Synyster Gates.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Nisio Isin ranks 1,628 out of 6,048. Before him are Tomoko Kawakami (1970), Yuko Oita (1969), Bunji Kimura (1944), Toru Kamikawa (1963), Katsuyoshi Shinto (1960), and Ryuji Sato (1977). After him are Kazuyoshi Funaki (1975), Wakana Yamazaki (1965), Fumiko Orikasa (1974), Tetsuji Hashiratani (1964), Naoki Matsuda (1977), and Byron Howard (1968).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Nisio Isin ranks 61. Before him are Kiyohiko Azuma (1968), Norihiro Yagi (1968), Yuu Watase (1970), Oh! great (1972), Natsuki Takaya (1973), and One (1986). After him are Yoshitoshi ABe (1971), Makoto Yukimura (1976), Katsura Hoshino (1980), Arina Tanemura (1978), Bisco Hatori (1975), and Matsuri Hino (2000).

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