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 different languages on Wikipedia. Kōhei Horikoshi is the 183rd most popular comic artist (down from 177th in 2019), the 2,205th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,763rd in 2019) and the 64th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Kōhei Horikoshi ranks 183 out of 226. Before him are Scott McCloud, Peter Laird, Hiroyuki Takei, One, Joe Kubert, and Gege Akutami. After him are Vivienne Medrano, Moyoco Anno, Katsura Hoshino, Walt Kelly, Natsuki Takaya, and Kevin Eastman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1986, Kōhei Horikoshi ranks 277. 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 2,205 out of 6,245. Before him are Satomi Ishihara (1986), Takashi Shimoda (1975), Gege Akutami (1992), Dai Fujimoto (1990), Hideaki Tomiyama (1957), and Michie Tomizawa (1961). After him are Kana Hanazawa (1989), Tsuneyasu Miyamoto (1977), Miki Itō (1962), Shuhei Yamada (1993), Masaaki Kanno (1960), and Toshiya Fujita (1971).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Kōhei Horikoshi ranks 64. Before him are Oh! great (1972), Tooru Fujisawa (1967), Yuu Watase (1970), Hiroyuki Takei (1972), One (1986), and Gege Akutami (1992). After him are Moyoco Anno (1971), Katsura Hoshino (1980), Natsuki Takaya (1973), Koyoharu Gotouge (1989), Arina Tanemura (1978), and Nakaba Suzuki (1977).

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