COMIC ARTIST

Kentaro Miura

1966 - 2021

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Kentaro Miura (Japanese: 三浦 建太郎, Hepburn: Miura Kentarō; July 11, 1966 – May 6, 2021) was a Japanese manga artist. He was best known for his dark fantasy series Berserk, which began serialization in 1989. By 2023, Berserk had over 60 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. In 2002, Miura received the Award for Excellence at the sixth Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kentaro Miura is the 28th most popular comic artist (down from 24th in 2019), the 403rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 278th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Kentaro Miura ranks 28 out of 226. Before him are André Franquin, Go Nagai, Leiji Matsumoto, Joe Simon, Georges Wolinski, and Steve Ditko. After him are Milo Manara, Quino, Alan Moore, Eiichiro Oda, Naoki Urasawa, and Hirohiko Araki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Kentaro Miura ranks 32. Before him are Didier Queloz, Liz Cheney, Kiefer Sutherland, Dan Schneider, Alessandro Costacurta, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. After him are Cláudio Taffarel, Stefan Edberg, Marco Hietala, Jonathan Edwards, Gianfranco Zola, and Dean Cain. Among people deceased in 2021, Kentaro Miura ranks 100. Before him are Ronald DeFeo Jr., Christa Ludwig, Abdelkader Bensalah, Max Mosley, Manuel Santana, and Bertrand Tavernier. After him are Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Cloris Leachman, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Jehan Sadat, Norodom Ranariddh, and Tamara Press.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kentaro Miura ranks 403 out of 6,245. Before him are Franklin J. Schaffner (1920), Shimazu Yoshihiro (1535), Koji Sasaki (1936), Shizuo Miyama (null), Yamato Takeru (72), and Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653). After him are Emperor Heizei (773), Emperor Kameyama (1249), Emperor Kōkō (830), Tadao Kobayashi (1930), Koji Funamoto (1942), and Shiro Misaki (null).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Kentaro Miura ranks 7. Before him are Osamu Tezuka (1928), Akira Toriyama (1955), Rumiko Takahashi (1957), Tsugumi Ohba (1950), Go Nagai (1945), and Leiji Matsumoto (1938). After him are Eiichiro Oda (1975), Naoki Urasawa (1960), Hirohiko Araki (1960), Katsuhiro Otomo (1954), Shotaro Ishinomori (1938), and Masashi Kishimoto (1974).

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