COMIC ARTIST

Tsutomu Nihei

1971 - Today

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Tsutomu Nihei (弐瓶 勉, Nihei Tsutomu, born February 26, 1971) is a Japanese manga artist. Nihei has been drawing comics professionally since the mid-1990s. In 1995 he was awarded the Jiro Taniguchi Special Prize in that year's Afternoon Four Seasons Award for his submission, Blame. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tsutomu Nihei has received more than 746,079 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Tsutomu Nihei is the 130th most popular comic artist (down from 129th in 2019), the 1,411th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,289th in 2019) and the 48th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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  • 750k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Tsutomu Nihei ranks 130 out of 226Before him are François Bourgeon, Iginio Straffi, Ken Sugimori, Ōten Shimokawa, Raymond Briggs, and Momoko Sakura. After him are Joe Simon, Jamie Hewlett, Kouta Hirano, Alex Raymond, Les Clark, and John Buscema.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1971, Tsutomu Nihei ranks 226Before him are Keegan-Michael Key, Claudia Gerini, Justin Lin, Kaitlyn Ashley, Candice Night, and Corey Haim. After him are Amira Casar, Erykah Badu, Missy Elliott, Nadja Auermann, Amy Poehler, and Method Man.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tsutomu Nihei ranks 1,411 out of 6,245Before him are Chiharu Igaya (1931), Masaru Furukawa (1936), Masami Ihara (1967), Hiroshi Nanami (1972), Hideki Kamiya (1970), and Momoko Sakura (1965). After him are Ryo Kawasaki (1947), Shinichirō Watanabe (1965), Maho Shimizu (1960), Tetsuo Hamuro (1917), Daichi Kamada (1996), and Takao Kobayashi (1961).

Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Tsutomu Nihei ranks 48Before him are Masakazu Katsura (1962), Tite Kubo (1977), Ken Akamatsu (1968), Ken Sugimori (1966), Ōten Shimokawa (1892), and Momoko Sakura (1965). After him are Kouta Hirano (1973), Yukito Kishiro (1967), Inio Asano (1980), Lynn Okamoto (1970), Kiyohiko Azuma (1968), and Gege Akutami (1992).