# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/makoto-raiku
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:53:30.644Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/makoto-raiku"
name: "Makoto Raiku"
slug: "makoto-raiku"
description: "Makoto Kawada , known by the pen name Makoto Raiku , is a manga artist known for creating the Zatch Bell! franchise. Starting off an assistant for Kazuhiro Fujita on his manga Ushio & Tora, he began creating several one-shots for the Weekly Shōnen Sunday shōnen manga anthology such as Bird Man, Hero Ba-Ban and Genmai Blade. By 1999, he had created the series Newtown Heroes, which was published in Shōnen Sunday Super, a seasonal publication featuring upcoming manga artists and one-shots from the main Sunday book."
tagline: "Japanese mangaka"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1974-08-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.94
  momentum:             5.185903716941368
  historical:           11.41442133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/raikumakoto"
    handle:    "raikumakoto"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1949987/"
    handle:    "nm1949987"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://88552772.at.webry.info/"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9B%B7%E5%8F%A5%E8%AA%A0"
    title: "雷句誠"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto_Raiku"
    title: "Makoto Raiku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto_Raiku"
    title: "Makoto Raiku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto_Raiku"
    title: "Makoto Raiku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto_Raiku"
    title: "Makoto Raiku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto_Raiku"
    title: "Makoto Raiku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto_Raiku"
    title: "Makoto Raiku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9B%B7%E5%8F%A5%E8%AA%A0"
    title: "雷句誠"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%9D%BC%EC%9D%B4%EC%BF%A0_%EB%A7%88%EC%BD%94%ED%86%A0"
    title: "라이쿠 마코토"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto_Raiku"
    title: "Makoto Raiku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D1%83_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE"
    title: "Райку Макото"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_min_nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raiku_Makoto"
    title: "Raiku Makoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q972529"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1257711"
    title: "Makoto Raiku"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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