COMIC ARTIST

Yuu Watase

1970 - Today

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Yuu Watase (渡瀬 悠宇, Watase Yuu, born March 5, 1970, in Kishiwada, Osaka) is a Japanese manga artist. She debuted in 1989 at the age of 18 with the short story "Pajama de Ojama" (パジャマでおじゃま, "An Intrusion in Pajamas") and has since published more than 50 volumes of one-shots and long-running manga series. One of her most popular titles is Fushigi Yûgi. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuu Watase has received more than 362,673 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Yuu Watase is the 160th most popular comic artist (down from 155th in 2019), the 1,609th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,497th in 2019) and the 58th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 360k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Yuu Watase ranks 160 out of 226. Before her are Neal Adams, Harvey Kurtzman, R. K. Laxman, Jim Lee, Seishi Kishimoto, and Eduardo Risso. After her are Makoto Yukimura, Moyoco Anno, David Beauchard, Len Wein, Jim Starlin, and Oh! great.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Yuu Watase ranks 316. Before her are Richie Hawtin, Žan Tabak, Andrea Parker, Marina Foïs, Yaël Braun-Pivet, and Alexi Lalas. After her are Origa, Võ Thị Ánh Xuân, Louise Lombard, Kirk Cameron, Peter Wright, and Roy Khan.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yuu Watase ranks 1,609 out of 6,245. Before her are Noritake Takahara (1951), Masaaki Shirakawa (1949), Hisashi Kato (1956), Rie Kugimiya (1979), Takuya Takagi (1967), and Masahiro Fukuda (1966). After her are Atsushi Uchiyama (1959), Hidehiko Yoshida (1969), Jared Taylor (1951), Satoshi Tezuka (1958), Akemi Okamura (1969), and Masahiko Harada (1968).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Yuu Watase ranks 58. Before her are Lynn Okamoto (1970), Kiyohiko Azuma (1968), Gege Akutami (1992), Tooru Fujisawa (1967), Norihiro Yagi (1968), and Seishi Kishimoto (1974). After her are Makoto Yukimura (1976), Moyoco Anno (1971), Oh! great (1972), Hiroyuki Takei (1972), One (1986), and Kōhei Horikoshi (1986).

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