COMIC ARTIST

Kazuki Takahashi

1961 - 2022

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Kazuo Takahashi (Japanese: 高橋 一雅, Hepburn: Takahashi Kazuo; October 4, 1961 – July 4, 2022), known professionally as Kazuki Takahashi (高橋 和希, Takahashi Kazuki), was a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the author of Yu-Gi-Oh!, published in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1996 to 2004. The manga spawned a trading card game of the same name, which holds the Guinness World Record for the best-selling trading card game of all time. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kazuki Takahashi is the 60th most popular comic artist (up from 74th in 2019), the 858th most popular biography from Japan (up from 955th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Kazuki Takahashi ranks 60 out of 226. Before him are Gosho Aoyama, Monkey Punch, Marjane Satrapi, Naoko Takeuchi, Masami Kurumada, and Art Spiegelman. After him are Émile Cohl, E. C. Segar, Jerry Siegel, Yoshito Usui, Benoît Sokal, and Guido Crepax.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Kazuki Takahashi ranks 119. Before him are Abdourahamane Tchiani, Franky Van der Elst, Reggie Fils-Aimé, Riad al-Asaad, Jacky Cheung, and Melissa Etheridge. After him are Elizabeth McGovern, Ignazio Cassis, Guido Westerwelle, Jonas Jonasson, Carey Lowell, and David Graeber. Among people deceased in 2022, Kazuki Takahashi ranks 178. Before him are Toshi Ichiyanagi, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, Anatoly Filipchenko, Maryan Wisniewski, Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, and Philip Baker Hall. After him are Vadim Bakatin, Robert Gordon, Pierre Kartner, Olga Szabó-Orbán, Letizia Battaglia, and John Powell.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kazuki Takahashi ranks 858 out of 6,245. Before him are Kōji Yakusho (1956), Eiko Ishioka (1938), Kujō Yoritsugu (1239), Ichiji Otani (1912), Haruhisa Hasegawa (1957), and Ōtomo Sōrin (1530). After him are Matsudaira Katamori (1836), Shūji Terayama (1935), Mitsugu Nomura (1956), Kusumoto Ine (1827), Ashikaga Yoshikatsu (1434), and Sho Kosugi (1948).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Kazuki Takahashi ranks 21. Before him are Yoshihiro Togashi (1966), Riyoko Ikeda (1947), Gosho Aoyama (1963), Monkey Punch (1937), Naoko Takeuchi (1967), and Masami Kurumada (1953). After him are Yoshito Usui (1958), Takehiko Inoue (1967), Mitsuteru Yokoyama (1934), Takeshi Obata (1969), Tetsuya Chiba (1939), and Kazuo Koike (1936).

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