COMIC ARTIST

Kōhei Horikoshi

1986 - Today

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Kōhei Horikoshi (堀越 耕平, Horikoshi Kōhei; born November 20, 1986) is a Japanese manga artist known for creating the manga series Oumagadoki Zoo, Barrage, and My Hero Academia, all of which have been serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump. His latter work had over 100 million copies in circulation by April 2024, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. Horikoshi is a graduate of Toho High School and Nagoya University of Arts and is a native of Aichi Prefecture. He was a former assistant for Yasuki Tanaka, creator of the manga series Summer Time Rendering, Hitomi no Catoblepas, and Kagijin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2024). Kōhei Horikoshi is the 187th most popular comic artist (down from 177th in 2024), the 2,228th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,762nd in 2019) and the 68th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Kōhei Horikoshi ranks 187 out of 226. Before him are Hiroyuki Takei, One, Joe Kubert, Yasuhiro Nightow, Gege Akutami, and Kia Asamiya. After him are Tetsurō Araki, Vivienne Medrano, Moyoco Anno, Yoko Kamio, Katsura Hoshino, and Walt Kelly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1986, Kōhei Horikoshi ranks 283. Before him are Ilya Sutskever, Manabu Watanabe, Valeri Bojinov, Pedro León, Yon González, and Satomi Ishihara. After him are Sarah J. Maas, Kevin Anderson, Ragnar Sigurðsson, Eunhyuk, Charlotte Le Bon, and Matt Riddle.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kōhei Horikoshi ranks 2,229 out of 6,245. Before him are Satomi Ishihara (1986), Takashi Shimoda (1975), Gege Akutami (1992), Dai Fujimoto (1990), Kia Asamiya (1963), Hideaki Tomiyama (1957), and Michie Tomizawa (1961). After him are Kana Hanazawa (1989), Tsuneyasu Miyamoto (1977), Miki Itō (1962), Shuhei Yamada (1993), and Masaaki Kanno (1960).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Kōhei Horikoshi ranks 68. Before him are Atsushi Ohkubo (1979), Hiroyuki Takei (1972), One (1986), Yasuhiro Nightow (1967), Gege Akutami (1992), and Kia Asamiya (1963). After him are Tetsurō Araki (1976), Moyoco Anno (1971), Yoko Kamio (1966), Katsura Hoshino (1980), Natsuki Takaya (1973), and Koyoharu Gotouge (1989).

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