# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/izumi-matsumoto
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:08:44.110Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/izumi-matsumoto"
name: "Izumi Matsumoto"
slug: "izumi-matsumoto"
description: "Kazuya Terashima , known by his pen name Izumi Matsumoto , was a Japanese manga artist best known for Kimagure Orange Road. His career started in 1982, publishing his comic Milk Report in the manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump. But real success came in 1984, publishing Kimagure Orange Road in the same magazine."
tagline: "Japanese manga artist (1958-2020)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1958-10-13"
deathDate: "2020-10-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.87075066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0559518/"
    handle:    "nm0559518"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.comic-on.co.jp/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "إيزومي ماتسوموتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Izumi Matsumoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izumi_Matsumoto"
    title: "Izumi Matsumoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izumi_Matsumoto"
    title: "Izumi Matsumoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izumi_Matsumoto"
    title: "Izumi Matsumoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izumi_Matsumoto"
    title: "Izumi Matsumoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%BE%E3%81%A4%E3%82%82%E3%81%A8%E6%B3%89"
    title: "まつもと泉"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "마쓰모토 이즈미"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izumi_Matsumoto"
    title: "Izumi Matsumoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izumi_Matsumoto"
    title: "Izumi Matsumoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%8B%E0%B8%B9%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B4_%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%B6%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%A1%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%B0"
    title: "อิซูมิ มัตสึโมโตะ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Matumoto Izumi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%BE%E6%9C%AC%E6%B3%89"
    title: "松本泉"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1542261"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1646979"
    title: "Izumi Matsumoto"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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