COMIC ARTIST

Takehiko Inoue

1967 - Today

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Takehiko Inoue (井上 雄彦, Inoue Takehiko, born 12 January 1967) is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for the basketball series Slam Dunk (1990–1996), and the jidaigeki manga Vagabond, which are two of the best-selling manga series in history. Many of his works are about basketball, Inoue himself being a huge fan of the sport. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Takehiko Inoue has received more than 1,304,852 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Takehiko Inoue is the 64th most popular comic artist (up from 71st in 2019), the 823rd most popular biography from Japan (up from 869th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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  • 2.43

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Takehiko Inoue ranks 64 out of 226. Before him are Saul Steinberg, Romano Scarpa, Jerry Siegel, Benoît Sokal, Art Spiegelman, and E. C. Segar. After him are Joe Shuster, Jacques Tardi, Yoshito Usui, Vicar, Robert Crumb, and Takeshi Obata.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Takehiko Inoue ranks 81. Before him are Gorō Miyazaki, Dmitry Peskov, Marcel Ciolacu, Kennet Andersson, Aron Winter, and Željka Cvijanović. After him are Herzi Halevi, Philipp Kirkorov, Naim Süleymanoğlu, Emil Kostadinov, Vince Gilligan, and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Takehiko Inoue ranks 823 out of 6,245. Before him are Fumiko Enchi (1905), Magdalene of Nagasaki (1611), Kiko, Princess Akishino (1966), Ōtomo no Yakamochi (718), Kamo no Chōmei (1155), and Hide (1964). After him are Michio Yasuda (1949), Takashi Ono (1931), Kuroki Tamemoto (1844), Takiji Kobayashi (1903), Tadashi Yanai (1949), and Itō Sukeyuki (1843).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Takehiko Inoue ranks 21. Before him are Gosho Aoyama (1963), Monkey Punch (1937), Masashi Kishimoto (1974), Riyoko Ikeda (1947), Naoko Takeuchi (1967), and Masami Kurumada (1953). After him are Yoshito Usui (1958), Takeshi Obata (1969), Kazuki Takahashi (1961), Mitsuteru Yokoyama (1934), Kazuo Koike (1936), and Hiromu Arakawa (1973).

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