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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 was 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 125,868 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Sanpei Shirato is the 85th most popular comic artist, the 969th most popular biography from Japan and the 32nd most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 130k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Sanpei Shirato ranks 85 out of 174. Before him are Tetsuya Chiba, Jacques Tardi, Jean-Michel Charlier, Kazuki Takahashi, Héctor Germán Oesterheld, and Tignous. After him are Lee Falk, Hermann Huppen, Juan Giménez, Joe Simon, Jijé, and Jim Davis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Sanpei Shirato ranks 233. Before him are Solange Berry, Erró, Donald Byrd, Albert Collins, Yakir Aharonov, and Parry O'Brien. After him are Ted Cassidy, Elaine May, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Otto Schily, Katarina Taikon, and Patsy Cline. Among people deceased in 2021, Sanpei Shirato ranks 352. Before him are Valeriy Pidluzhnyy, Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze, Dimitri Kitsikis, Friederike Mayröcker, Robert Marchand, and Jean-Pierre Bacri. After him are Giuseppe Rotunno, Jozef Vengloš, József Csatári, John Madden, Virgil Abloh, and Colin Bell.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sanpei Shirato ranks 969 out of 6,048. Before him are Sayako Kuroda (1969), Kiyoshi Atsumi (1928), Yuki Kajiura (1965), Sadakazu Tanigaki (1945), Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933), and Hidetaka Nishiyama (1928). After him are Hidemaro Watanabe (1924), Ōmura Masujirō (1824), Nobuo Kawakami (1947), Tatsumi Kimishima (1950), Takuya Kimura (1972), and Akio Toyoda (1956).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Sanpei Shirato ranks 32. Before him are Kazuo Koike (1936), Yoshito Usui (1958), Mitsuteru Yokoyama (1934), Hiromu Arakawa (1973), Tetsuya Chiba (1939), and Kazuki Takahashi (1961). After him are Masamune Shirow (1961), Hiro Mashima (1977), Hajime Isayama (1986), Tsukasa Hojo (1959), Nobuhiro Watsuki (1970), and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (1962).

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