COMIC ARTIST

Yoshitoshi ABe

1971 - Today

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Yoshitoshi Abe (安倍 吉俊, Abe Yoshitoshi; born August 3, 1971), also stylized as yoshitoshi ABe, is a Japanese graphic artist who works predominantly in anime and manga. He first gained fame for his work on the avant-garde anime Serial Experiments Lain. He is also responsible for the concept and character design for the series NieA_7. He is the creator of the dōjinshi Haibane Renmei, which was also adapted into an anime. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Yoshitoshi ABe is the 162nd most popular comic artist (up from 181st in 2024), the 1,895th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,826th in 2019) and the 58th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Yoshitoshi ABe ranks 162 out of 226Before him are Eduardo Risso, Neal Adams, Mike Mignola, Seishi Kishimoto, Inio Asano, and Mort Walker. After him are Marv Wolfman, Oh! great, Jim Starlin, Alison Bechdel, Peter David, and Tooru Fujisawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1971, Yoshitoshi ABe ranks 352Before him are Christina Chang, Chen Guangcheng, Oséas, Stanislas Merhar, Tiffany Mynx, and Hoyte van Hoytema. After him are Albrecht Behmel, Beatrix von Storch, Bjarte Engen Vik, John Ross Bowie, Claude Dambury, and Ani Choying Drolma.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yoshitoshi ABe ranks 1,895 out of 6,245Before him are Makoto Oda (1989), Riyo Mori (1986), Ken Shimizu (1979), Masato Kawaguchi (1981), Kinuko Tanida (1939), and Samaire Armstrong (1980). After him are Masahiro Ando (1972), Shohei Ohtani (1994), Makoto Teguramori (1967), Takashi Sekizuka (1960), Reiji Nakajima (1979), and Shizuka Kudo (1970).

Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Yoshitoshi ABe ranks 58Before him are Momoko Sakura (1965), Makoto Yukimura (1976), Lynn Okamoto (1970), Norihiro Yagi (1968), Seishi Kishimoto (1974), and Inio Asano (1980). After him are Oh! great (1972), Tooru Fujisawa (1967), Yuu Watase (1970), Atsushi Ohkubo (1979), Hiroyuki Takei (1972), and One (1986).