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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 popular worldwide, where they have been translated into a variety of languages, with over 200 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 1,779,485 page views. Her biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia. Rumiko Takahashi is the 18th most popular comic artist (up from 19th in 2019), the 214th most popular biography from Japan (up from 261st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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  • 1.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Rumiko Takahashi ranks 18 out of 174. Before her are Matt Groening, Zdeněk Miler, Jack Kirby, Bob Kane, Morris, and Tsugumi Ohba. After her are Go Nagai, Steve Ditko, André Franquin, Quino, Leiji Matsumoto, and Milo Manara.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Rumiko Takahashi ranks 30. Before her are Ofra Haza, Paul Kagame, Richard E. Grant, Dr. Alban, Ai Weiwei, and Kelly McGillis. After her are Rinat Dasayev, Theo van Gogh, Cesare Prandelli, Spike Lee, Michael Madsen, and Nick Cave.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Rumiko Takahashi ranks 214 out of 6,048. Before her are Yukio Hatoyama (1947), Kyu Sakamoto (1941), Emperor Ankō (401), Okita Sōji (1842), Ashikaga Takauji (1305), and Kantarō Suzuki (1868). After her are Sada Abe (1905), Akira Yoshizawa (1911), Jisaburō Ozawa (1886), Emperor Ninken (449), Antonio Inoki (1943), and Ishikawa Goemon (1558).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Rumiko Takahashi ranks 4. Before her are Osamu Tezuka (1928), Akira Toriyama (1955), and Tsugumi Ohba (1950). After her are Go Nagai (1945), Leiji Matsumoto (1938), Hirohiko Araki (1960), Masashi Kishimoto (1974), Katsuhiro Otomo (1954), Eiichiro Oda (1975), Kentaro Miura (1966), and Yoshihiro Togashi (1966).

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