COMIC ARTIST

Tsugumi Ohba

1950 - Today

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Tsugumi Ohba (Japanese: 大場 つぐみ, Hepburn: Ōba Tsugumi) is the pen name of a Japanese manga writer, best known for authoring the Death Note manga series with illustrator Takeshi Obata from 2003 to 2006, which has 30 million collected volumes in circulation. The duo's second series, Bakuman. (2008–2012), was also successful with 15 million in circulation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tsugumi Ohba has received more than 1,475,037 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Tsugumi Ohba is the 17th most popular comic artist, the 217th most popular biography from Japan (down from 175th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

Tsugumi Ohba is most famous for being the author of the manga series Death Note.

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  • 61.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Tsugumi Ohba ranks 17 out of 226. Before him are Hugo Pratt, Morris, Matt Groening, Jack Kirby, Zdeněk Miler, and Leiji Matsumoto. After him are Jean-Jacques Sempé, Rumiko Takahashi, Bob Kane, Eiichiro Oda, Milo Manara, and Georges Wolinski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Tsugumi Ohba ranks 52. Before him are Nouri al-Maliki, Suzi Quatro, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Roza Otunbayeva, Julie Walters, and Laura Gemser. After him are Vesna Vulović, Janez Drnovšek, Christina Onassis, Lakshmi Mittal, Alan Silvestri, and Mark Spitz.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tsugumi Ohba ranks 217 out of 6,245. Before him are Toshihide Maskawa (1940), Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659), Kantarō Suzuki (1868), D. T. Suzuki (1870), Emperor Hanzei (336), and Emperor Chūai (149). After him are Emperor Go-Kashiwabara (1464), Emperor Shōkō (1401), Empress Jingū (169), Takashi Shimura (1905), Emperor Sutoku (1119), and Emperor Kenzō (450).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Tsugumi Ohba ranks 4. Before him are Osamu Tezuka (1928), Akira Toriyama (1955), and Leiji Matsumoto (1938). After him are Rumiko Takahashi (1957), Eiichiro Oda (1975), Kentaro Miura (1966), Naoki Urasawa (1960), Go Nagai (1945), Yoshihiro Togashi (1966), Hirohiko Araki (1960), and Katsuhiro Otomo (1954).

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