COMIC ARTIST

Nobuhiro Watsuki

1970 - Today

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Nobuhiro Nishiwaki (Japanese: 西脇 伸宏, Hepburn: Nishiwaki Nobuhiro, born May 26, 1970), better known by his pen name Nobuhiro Watsuki (和月 伸宏, Watsuki Nobuhiro), is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for his samurai-themed series Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story (1994–1999), which has over 70 million copies in circulation, and a sequel he is currently creating, Rurouni Kenshin: The Hokkaido Arc (2017–present). Watsuki has written three more manga series, Gun Blaze West (2001), Buso Renkin (2003–2005), and Embalming: The Another Tale of Frankenstein (2007–2015). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nobuhiro Watsuki has received more than 1,460,695 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Nobuhiro Watsuki is the 112th most popular comic artist (down from 106th in 2019), the 1,236th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,117th in 2019) and the 40th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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  • 26

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  • 4.23

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  • 2.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Nobuhiro Watsuki ranks 112 out of 226. Before him are Hiro Mashima, E. O. Plauen, Yōichi Takahashi, Gotlib, Claire Bretécher, and David Lloyd. After him are Jean Tabary, Hal Foster, John Romita Sr., Keiko Takemiya, Masakazu Katsura, and Tite Kubo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Nobuhiro Watsuki ranks 134. Before him are Muhammad Gaddafi, Rui Vitória, Mädchen Amick, Karoline Krüger, Emmanuel Amunike, and Bobby Cannavale. After him are Stéphane Guivarc'h, Saif Ali Khan, Julie Bowen, Shin Tae-yong, Zack de la Rocha, and Gianluca Pessotto.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Nobuhiro Watsuki ranks 1,236 out of 6,245. Before him are Fumio Hayasaka (1914), Wataru Endo (1993), Masatoshi Shima (1943), Katsuyoshi Kuwahara (1944), Yoshiko Kuga (1931), and Tetsuya Komuro (1958). After him are Hitoshi Sasaki (1891), Hiroyuki Usui (1953), Isao Okano (1944), Shōhei Ōoka (1909), Kei Kumai (1930), and Shigeo Arai (1916).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Nobuhiro Watsuki ranks 40. Before him are Hajime Isayama (1986), Masamune Shirow (1961), Tsukasa Hojo (1959), Yumiko Igarashi (1950), Hiro Mashima (1977), and Yōichi Takahashi (1960). After him are Keiko Takemiya (1950), Masakazu Katsura (1962), Tite Kubo (1977), Ken Akamatsu (1968), Ken Sugimori (1966), and Ōten Shimokawa (1892).

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