COMIC ARTIST

Sanpei Shirato

1932 - 2021

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Noboru Okamoto (Japanese: 岡本 登, Hepburn: Okamoto Noboru, February 15, 1932 – October 8, 2021), known by the pen name Sanpei Shirato (白土 三平, Shirato Sanpei), was a Japanese manga artist and essayist known for his social criticism as well as the realism of his drawing style and the characters in his scenarios. He is considered a pioneer of the controversial gekiga genre of adult-oriented manga. The son of the Japanese proletarian painter Toki Okamoto, his dream to become an artist equal with his father started when he became a kamishibai artist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sanpei Shirato has received more than 134,712 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Sanpei Shirato is the 93rd most popular comic artist (down from 84th in 2019), the 1,115th most popular biography from Japan (down from 966th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 130k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Sanpei Shirato ranks 93 out of 226. Before him are Tetsuya Chiba, Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri, Sergio Toppi, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, and Fujio Akatsuka. After him are Lee Falk, Jijé, Willy Vandersteen, Juan Giménez, Jean-Claude Mézières, and Hajime Isayama.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Sanpei Shirato ranks 277. Before him are Robert Rozhdestvensky, Paulinho de Almeida, Yash Chopra, Jerry Unser Jr., Medea Abrahamyan, and Kalyan Singh. After him are Princess Margarita of Baden, Olga Fikotová, Michel Leblond, Billie Whitelaw, Tormod Knutsen, and Edward Hardwicke. Among people deceased in 2021, Sanpei Shirato ranks 306. Before him are John Warner, Marie-Claire Blais, Chris Dickerson, Medea Abrahamyan, Kalyan Singh, and Vassilis Alexakis. After him are Dragan Pantelić, Fausto Gresini, Almudena Grandes, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Patrick Juvet, and Tormod Knutsen.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sanpei Shirato ranks 1,115 out of 6,245. Before him are Ikue Ōtani (1965), Ōsugi Sakae (1885), Shinobu Hashimoto (1918), Hiromi Kawakami (1958), Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), and Sunao Tawara (1873). After him are Miyamoto Yuriko (1899), Ogata Kenzan (1663), Nozu Michitsura (1840), Yasuhito Endō (1980), Seiko Matsuda (1962), and Masuji Ibuse (1898).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Sanpei Shirato ranks 33. Before him are Hiromu Arakawa (1973), Machiko Hasegawa (1920), Chica Umino (null), Moto Hagio (1949), Tetsuya Chiba (1939), and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (1962). After him are Hajime Isayama (1986), Masamune Shirow (1961), Tsukasa Hojo (1959), Yumiko Igarashi (1950), Hiro Mashima (1977), and Yōichi Takahashi (1960).

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