COMIC ARTIST

Tooru Fujisawa

1967 - Today

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Tōru Fujisawa (藤沢 とおる, Fujisawa Tōru; born 1967) is a Japanese manga artist. His name is romanized as Tohru Fujisawa on the Tokyopop English-language Great Teacher Onizuka books and as Toru Fujisawa on the Kodansha bilingual releases. His first serialized work was Adesugata Junjo Boy, published from 1989 in Weekly Shōnen Magazine. Fujisawa's best-known work is Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO) about a biker, Eikichi Onizuka, and his attempt to become and remain a teacher. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2024). Tooru Fujisawa is the 170th most popular comic artist (down from 146th in 2024), the 1,974th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,529th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Tooru Fujisawa ranks 170 out of 226. Before him are Yoshitoshi ABe, Marv Wolfman, Oh! great, Jim Starlin, Alison Bechdel, and Peter David. After him are Jules Feiffer, Bill Watterson, Yuu Watase, Atsushi Ohkubo, Harvey Pekar, and Jim Lee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Tooru Fujisawa ranks 421. Before him are Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, Takuya Takagi, Bent Christensen Arensøe, Igor Shuvalov, Pernilla Wahlgren, and Cynthia Klitbo. After him are Alexander Zorniger, Yael Abecassis, Hevia, Ranko Popović, Sherry Stringfield, and Jonathan Gilbert.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tooru Fujisawa ranks 1,974 out of 6,245. Before him are Hiroaki Morishima (1972), Takashi Sorimachi (1973), Kaoru Mitoma (1997), Keiji Kaimoto (1972), Kōji Nakata (1979), and Soma Ishigamori (2001). After him are Taiki Uchikoshi (1996), Takuya Sugiyama (1983), Hiroshi Sato (1972), Yusuke Minoguchi (1965), Reki Kawahara (1974), and Hiroshi Hatano (1984).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Tooru Fujisawa ranks 62. Before him are Lynn Okamoto (1970), Norihiro Yagi (1968), Seishi Kishimoto (1974), Inio Asano (1980), Yoshitoshi ABe (1971), and Oh! great (1972). After him are Yuu Watase (1970), Atsushi Ohkubo (1979), Hiroyuki Takei (1972), One (1986), Yasuhiro Nightow (1967), and Gege Akutami (1992).

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