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COMIC ARTIST

Shotaro Ishinomori

1938 - 1998

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Shotaro Ishinomori (石ノ森 章太郎, Ishinomori Shōtarō, 25 January 1938 – 28 January 1998) was a Japanese manga artist who became an influential figure in manga, anime, and tokusatsu, creating several immensely popular long-running series such as Cyborg 009, the Super Sentai series (later adapted into the Power Rangers series), and the Kamen Rider series. He was twice awarded by the Shogakukan Manga Awards, in 1968 for Sabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae and in 1988 for Hotel and Manga Nihon Keizai Nyumon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shotaro Ishinomori has received more than 604,715 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Shotaro Ishinomori is the 42nd most popular comic artist (down from 41st in 2019), the 510th most popular biography from Japan (up from 585th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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  • 19

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  • 2.83

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  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Shotaro Ishinomori ranks 42 out of 174Before him are Eiichiro Oda, Saul Steinberg, Bill Finger, Kentaro Miura, Yoshihiro Togashi, and Philippe Honoré. After him are Gosho Aoyama, Shigeru Mizuki, Naoki Urasawa, Guillermo Mordillo, Caran d'Ache, and Monkey Punch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Shotaro Ishinomori ranks 130Before him are Oleg Gordievsky, Marien Ngouabi, Nabih Berri, Anne Perry, Seishiro Shimatani, and David Lane. After him are Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, Angelo Amato, Hermann Nitsch, Igor Sergeyev, Tatsuya Shiji, and Milan Galić. Among people deceased in 1998, Shotaro Ishinomori ranks 74Before him are Haxhi Lleshi, Jerome Robbins, Ted Hughes, László Szabó, Adem Jashari, and George Wallace. After him are Kunitaka Sueoka, Don Taylor, Carl Perkins, J. T. Walsh, Maureen O'Sullivan, and Joan Hickson.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shotaro Ishinomori ranks 510 out of 6,048Before him are Yamada Nagamasa (1590), Tokugawa Ieyoshi (1793), Fujiwara no Michinaga (966), Seki Matsunaga (1928), Kenzo Ohashi (1934), and Seishiro Shimatani (1938). After him are Seiichi Itō (1890), Ashikaga Yoshimasa (1435), Kunitaka Sueoka (1917), Yoshihiko Noda (1957), Toshio Hirabayashi (null), and Kondō Isami (1834).

Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Shotaro Ishinomori ranks 13Before him are Hirohiko Araki (1960), Masashi Kishimoto (1974), Katsuhiro Otomo (1954), Eiichiro Oda (1975), Kentaro Miura (1966), and Yoshihiro Togashi (1966). After him are Gosho Aoyama (1963), Shigeru Mizuki (1922), Naoki Urasawa (1960), Monkey Punch (1937), Naoko Takeuchi (1967), and Riyoko Ikeda (1947).