# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hiroya-oku
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:38:53.082Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hiroya-oku"
name: "Hiroya Oku"
slug: "hiroya-oku"
description: "Hiroya Oku  is a Japanese manga artist, known for his works Hen, Gantz, Inuyashiki, and Gigant, the first two of which have been serialized in Weekly Young Jump. Originally influenced by Katsuhiro Otomo and Ryoichi Ikegami, his manga often contain explicit violence, sexual depictions, and matters that are considered taboo by the public, and he is known as a pioneer in the use of digital processing for manga backgrounds."
tagline: "Japanese manga artist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1967-09-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.80991733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/hiroya_oku"
    handle:    "hiroya_oku"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0645740/"
    handle:    "nm0645740"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://studiooku.zombie.jp/"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f3707710-8c95-44bd-9a21-20b58f0fa258"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "هيرويا اوكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroya_Oku"
    title: "Hiroya Oku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroya_Oku"
    title: "Hiroya Oku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroya_Oku"
    title: "Hiroya Oku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%88%DA%A9%D9%88"
    title: "هیرویا اوکو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroya_Oku"
    title: "Hiroya Oku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroya_Oku"
    title: "Hiroya Oku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A5%A5%E6%B5%A9%E5%93%89"
    title: "奥浩哉"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%98%A4%EC%BF%A0_%ED%9E%88%EB%A1%9C%EC%95%BC"
    title: "오쿠 히로야"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroya_Oku"
    title: "Hiroya Oku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroya_Oku"
    title: "Hiroya Oku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BA%D1%83%2C_%D0%A5%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%8F"
    title: "Оку, Хироя"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BA%D1%83_%D0%A5%D1%96%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%8F"
    title: "Оку Хіроя"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A5%A7%E6%B5%A9%E5%93%89"
    title: "奧浩哉"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2608898"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1123049"
    title: "Hiroya Oku"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump