COMIC ARTIST

Masashi Kishimoto

1974 - Today

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Masashi Kishimoto (岸本 斉史, Kishimoto Masashi; born November 8, 1974) is a Japanese manga artist. His manga series, Naruto, which was in serialization from 1999 to 2014, has sold over 250 million copies worldwide in 46 countries as of May 2019. The series has been adapted into two anime and multiple films, video games, and related media. Besides the Naruto manga, Kishimoto also personally supervised the two anime films, The Last: Naruto the Movie and Boruto: Naruto the Movie, and has written several one-shot stories. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Masashi Kishimoto is the 45th most popular comic artist (up from 47th in 2019), the 658th most popular biography from Japan (down from 634th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Masashi Kishimoto ranks 45 out of 226. Before him are Will Eisner, Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Shotaro Ishinomori, Enki Bilal, Philippe Honoré, and Guillermo Mordillo. After him are Shigeru Mizuki, Yoshihiro Togashi, Caran d'Ache, Bill Finger, Winsor McCay, and Saul Steinberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1974, Masashi Kishimoto ranks 28. Before him are Zé Roberto, Alexis Tsipras, Al-Muhtadee Billah, Camilla Läckberg, Jenna Jameson, and Ole Einar Bjørndalen. After him are Paul Scholes, Marjorie Taylor Greene, CeeLo Green, Mirko Cro Cop, Haya bint Hussein, and Vincenzo Montella.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masashi Kishimoto ranks 658 out of 6,245. Before him are Machiko Kyō (1924), Hisao Sekiguchi (1954), Minamoto no Yorimasa (1106), Emperor Horikawa (1079), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1955), and Kiyosi Itô (1915). After him are Yoshio Nishina (1890), Teruki Miyamoto (1940), Momoko Kōchi (1932), Emperor Reizei (949), Keisuke Okada (1868), and Masatoshi Nakayama (1913).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Masashi Kishimoto ranks 13. Before him are Kentaro Miura (1966), Eiichiro Oda (1975), Naoki Urasawa (1960), Hirohiko Araki (1960), Katsuhiro Otomo (1954), and Shotaro Ishinomori (1938). After him are Shigeru Mizuki (1922), Yoshihiro Togashi (1966), Riyoko Ikeda (1947), Gosho Aoyama (1963), Monkey Punch (1937), and Naoko Takeuchi (1967).

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