COMIC ARTIST

Tooru Fujisawa

1967 - Today

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Tōru Fujisawa (藤沢 とおる, Fujisawa Tōru; born 1967) is a Japanese manga artist. His name is romanized as Tohru Fujisawa on the Tokyopop English-language Great Teacher Onizuka books and as Toru Fujisawa on the Kodansha bilingual releases. His first serialized work was Adesugata Junjo Boy, published from 1989 in Weekly Shōnen Magazine. Fujisawa's best-known work is Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO) about a biker, Eikichi Onizuka, and his attempt to become and remain a teacher. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2024). Tooru Fujisawa is the 168th most popular comic artist (down from 146th in 2024), the 1,966th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,529th in 2019) and the 60th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Tooru Fujisawa ranks 168 out of 226Before him are Yoshitoshi ABe, Marv Wolfman, Oh! great, Jim Starlin, Alison Bechdel, and Peter David. After him are Jules Feiffer, Bill Watterson, Yuu Watase, Atsushi Ohkubo, Harvey Pekar, and Jim Lee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Tooru Fujisawa ranks 421Before him are Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, Takuya Takagi, Bent Christensen Arensøe, Igor Shuvalov, Pernilla Wahlgren, and Cynthia Klitbo. After him are Alexander Zorniger, Yael Abecassis, Hevia, Ranko Popović, Sherry Stringfield, and Jonathan Gilbert.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tooru Fujisawa ranks 1,971 out of 6,245Before him are Takahiro Shimada (1965), Tomoko Matsunaga (1971), Takako Tezuka (1970), Hiroki Sakai (1990), Kōji Wada (1974), Hiroaki Morishima (1972), Takashi Sorimachi (1973), Kaoru Mitoma (1997), Keiji Kaimoto (1972), Kōji Nakata (1979), and Soma Ishigamori (2001). After him are Taiki Uchikoshi (1996).

Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Tooru Fujisawa ranks 60Before him are Lynn Okamoto (1970), Norihiro Yagi (1968), Seishi Kishimoto (1974), Inio Asano (1980), Yoshitoshi ABe (1971), and Oh! great (1972). After him are Yuu Watase (1970), Atsushi Ohkubo (1979), Hiroyuki Takei (1972), One (1986), Yasuhiro Nightow (1967), and Gege Akutami (1992).