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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 1,175,160 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Takehiko Inoue is the 72nd most popular comic artist (up from 85th in 2019), the 872nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 956th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Takehiko Inoue ranks 72 out of 174. Before him are Marjane Satrapi, Benoît Sokal, Richard F. Outcault, Vicar, Romano Scarpa, and Robert Crumb. After him are Kazuo Koike, Yoshito Usui, Al Taliaferro, Fujio Akatsuka, Mitsuteru Yokoyama, and Hiromu Arakawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Takehiko Inoue ranks 99. Before him are Suman Pokhrel, Roger Schmidt, Aron Winter, Philipp Kirkorov, Toni Braxton, and Mira Sorvino. After him are Chuck Schuldiner, Viktor Bout, Saara Kuugongelwa, Takehito Koyasu, Olafur Eliasson, and Gorō Miyazaki.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Takehiko Inoue ranks 872 out of 6,048. Before him are Nobuo Uematsu (1959), Tōson Shimazaki (1872), Maruyama Ōkyo (1733), Futabatei Shimei (1864), Akinori Nakayama (1943), and Hiroshi Nakajima (1928). After him are Kafū Nagai (1879), Ōmura Sumitada (1533), Ozaki Kōyō (1868), Sadako Ogata (1927), Kazuo Koike (1936), and Toyohiro Akiyama (1942).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Takehiko Inoue ranks 25. Before him are Riyoko Ikeda (1947), Takeshi Obata (1969), Masami Kurumada (1953), Mitsuru Adachi (1951), Chica Umino (null), and Machiko Hasegawa (1920). After him are Kazuo Koike (1936), Yoshito Usui (1958), Mitsuteru Yokoyama (1934), Hiromu Arakawa (1973), Tetsuya Chiba (1939), and Kazuki Takahashi (1961).

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