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). He has mentored several well-known manga artists, including One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda, Shaman King creator Hiroyuki Takei, and Mr. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2024). Nobuhiro Watsuki is the 118th most popular comic artist (down from 112th in 2024), the 1,378th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,236th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Nobuhiro Watsuki ranks 118 out of 226. Before him are Ōten Shimokawa, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, Keiko Takemiya, E. O. Plauen, Hal Foster, and Iginio Straffi. After him are Les Clark, Masakazu Katsura, Gotlib, Larry Lieber, David Lloyd, and Hiro Mashima.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Nobuhiro Watsuki ranks 181. Before him are Craig Parker, Peter Tägtgren, Cha Seung-won, Tetsuya Ogura, Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and Saulius Skvernelis. After him are Abelardo Fernández, Zack de la Rocha, Daniel Lewin, Masahiro Sakurai, Yoko Taro, and Karen Mulder.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Nobuhiro Watsuki ranks 1,378 out of 6,245. Before him are Kenkichi Iwasawa (1917), Vanraure Hachinohe (null), Hiroshi Suzuki (1933), Masahiro Hasemi (1945), Kei Kumai (1930), and Atsuko Tanaka (1962). After him are Kei Nishikori (1989), Masanori Yusa (1915), Maho Shimizu (1960), Ukyo Katayama (1963), Katsuyoshi Shinto (1960), and Shinobu Sekine (1943).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Nobuhiro Watsuki ranks 43. Before him are Hajime Isayama (1986), Masamune Shirow (1961), Tetsuo Hara (1961), Ōten Shimokawa (1892), Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (1962), and Keiko Takemiya (1950). After him are Masakazu Katsura (1962), Hiro Mashima (1977), Ken Sugimori (1966), Kiyohiko Azuma (1968), Ken Akamatsu (1968), and Tsutomu Nihei (1971).

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