COMIC ARTIST

Rumiko Takahashi

1957 - Today

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Rumiko Takahashi (高橋 留美子, Takahashi Rumiko, born October 10, 1957) is a Japanese manga artist. With a career of several commercially successful works, beginning with Urusei Yatsura in 1978, she is one of Japan's best-known and wealthiest manga artists. Her works are known worldwide, where they have been translated into a variety of languages, with over 230 million copies in circulation; making Takahashi one of the best-selling authors of all time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rumiko Takahashi has received more than 1,896,919 page views. Her biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Rumiko Takahashi is the 19th most popular comic artist (down from 18th in 2019), the 252nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 213th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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  • 43

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  • 5.55

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  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Rumiko Takahashi ranks 19 out of 226Before her are Matt Groening, Jack Kirby, Zdeněk Miler, Leiji Matsumoto, Tsugumi Ohba, and Jean-Jacques Sempé. After her are Bob Kane, Eiichiro Oda, Milo Manara, Georges Wolinski, Kentaro Miura, and Naoki Urasawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Rumiko Takahashi ranks 34Before her are Dr. Alban, Paul Kagame, Ai Weiwei, Rinat Dasayev, Kelly McGillis, and Theo van Gogh. After her are Luis Garavito, Michael Madsen, Marita Koch, Shane MacGowan, Ivo Josipović, and Masayoshi Son.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Rumiko Takahashi ranks 252 out of 6,245Before her are Masahito, Prince Hitachi (1935), Katō Kiyomasa (1561), Ko Yong-hui (1952), Emperor Go-Mizunoo (1596), Hideo Kojima (1963), and Ōkuma Shigenobu (1838). After her are Honda Tadakatsu (1548), Yoshio Okada (1926), Tamon Yamaguchi (1892), Masaru Ibuka (1908), Emperor Senka (467), and Kitasato Shibasaburō (1853).

Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Rumiko Takahashi ranks 5Before her are Osamu Tezuka (1928), Akira Toriyama (1955), Leiji Matsumoto (1938), and Tsugumi Ohba (1950). After her are Eiichiro Oda (1975), Kentaro Miura (1966), Naoki Urasawa (1960), Go Nagai (1945), Yoshihiro Togashi (1966), Hirohiko Araki (1960), and Katsuhiro Otomo (1954).