COMIC ARTIST

Tsugumi Ohba

1950 - Today

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Tsugumi Ohba (Japanese: 大場 つぐみ, Hepburn: Ōba Tsugumi) is the pen name of a Japanese manga writer, best known for authoring the Death Note manga series with illustrator Takeshi Obata from 2003 to 2006, which has 30 million collected volumes in circulation. The duo's second series, Bakuman (2008–2012), was also successful with 15 million in circulation. In 2014, Ohba collaborated with My Little Monster creator Robico for the one-shot "Skip! Yamada-kun". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tsugumi Ohba is the 21st most popular comic artist (down from 17th in 2019), the 297th most popular biography from Japan (down from 217th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

Tsugumi Ohba is most famous for being the author of the manga series Death Note.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Tsugumi Ohba ranks 21 out of 226Before him are Jean Giraud, Jack Kirby, Matt Groening, Rumiko Takahashi, Jean-Jacques Sempé, and Bob Kane. After him are André Franquin, Go Nagai, Leiji Matsumoto, Joe Simon, Georges Wolinski, and Steve Ditko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Tsugumi Ohba ranks 62Before him are Roza Otunbayeva, Sônia Braga, Bjarne Stroustrup, Julie Walters, Jussi Adler-Olsen, and Lakshmi Mittal. After him are Shoko Hamada, Christina Onassis, Victoria Principal, Alan Silvestri, Eddie Clarke, and Ntfombi of Eswatini.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tsugumi Ohba ranks 297 out of 6,245Before him are Fumihito, Prince Akishino (1965), Takeshi Kamo (1915), Koichi Oita (1914), Seishiro Shimatani (1938), Yamagata Aritomo (1838), and Yasuyuki Kuwahara (1942). After him are Konishi Yukinaga (1555), Toshio Hirabayashi (null), Emperor Ingyō (376), Yoshio Furukawa (1934), Emperor Shōmu (701), and Shoko Hamada (1950).

Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Tsugumi Ohba ranks 4Before him are Osamu Tezuka (1928), Akira Toriyama (1955), and Rumiko Takahashi (1957). After him are Go Nagai (1945), Leiji Matsumoto (1938), Kentaro Miura (1966), Eiichiro Oda (1975), Naoki Urasawa (1960), Hirohiko Araki (1960), Katsuhiro Otomo (1954), and Shotaro Ishinomori (1938).