COMIC ARTIST

Moto Hagio

1949 - Today

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Moto Hagio (萩尾 望都, Hagio Moto; born May 12, 1949) is a Japanese manga artist. Regarded for her contributions to shōjo manga (manga aimed at young and adolescent women), Hagio is considered the most significant artist in the demographic and among the most influential manga artists of all time, being referred to as the "god of shōjo manga" (少女漫画の神様, shōjo manga no kami-sama) by critics. Hagio made her debut as a manga artist in 1969 at the publishing company Kodansha before moving to Shogakukan in 1971, where she was able to publish her more radical and unconventional works that had been rejected by other publishers. Her first serializations at Shogakukan – the vampire fantasy The Poe Clan, the shōnen-ai (male–male romance) drama The Heart of Thomas, and the science fiction thriller They Were Eleven – were among the first works of shōjo manga to achieve mainstream critical and commercial success. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Moto Hagio is the 88th most popular comic artist (down from 85th in 2019), the 1,144th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,023rd in 2019) and the 30th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Moto Hagio ranks 88 out of 226. Before her are Juan Giménez, Machiko Hasegawa, Hermann Huppen, Al Taliaferro, Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri, and Robert Crumb. After her are Tite Kubo, Chica Umino, Yumiko Igarashi, Jean-Claude Mézières, Tsukasa Hojo, and Lee Falk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Moto Hagio ranks 365. Before her are Sandy Martin, Ádám Fischer, Marc Garneau, Eddie Hart, Arno, and Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria. After her are Véronique Sanson, Israel Finkelstein, Mugur Isărescu, Steven Williams, Åse Kleveland, and Shelley Long.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Moto Hagio ranks 1,144 out of 6,245. Before her are Tsubouchi Shōyō (1859), Yasuji Miyazaki (1916), Misuzu Kaneko (1903), Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi (1902), Kazuhiko Inoue (1954), and Saigō Jūdō (1843). After her are Itō Sukeyuki (1843), Aguri Suzuki (1960), Tite Kubo (1977), Chica Umino (null), Akira Kamiya (1946), and Yumiko Igarashi (1950).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Moto Hagio ranks 30. Before her are Mitsuteru Yokoyama (1934), Takeshi Obata (1969), Tetsuya Chiba (1939), Kazuo Koike (1936), Hiromu Arakawa (1973), and Machiko Hasegawa (1920). After her are Tite Kubo (1977), Chica Umino (null), Yumiko Igarashi (1950), Tsukasa Hojo (1959), Yōichi Takahashi (1960), and Sanpei Shirato (1932).

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