# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nobuhiro-watsuki
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:00:03.232Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nobuhiro-watsuki"
name: "Nobuhiro Watsuki"
slug: "nobuhiro-watsuki"
description: "Nobuhiro Nishiwaki , better known by his pen name Nobuhiro Watsuki , is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for his samurai-themed series Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story (1994–1999), which has over 70 million copies in circulation, and a sequel he is currently creating, Rurouni Kenshin: The Hokkaido Arc (2017–present)."
tagline: "Japanese manga artist (born 1970)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/qcLlNwtrjsfAr8CWd3V7M9pcEv.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1970-05-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.89
  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.06917866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    title: "Nobuhiro Watsuki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuhiro_Watsuki"
    title: "Nobuhiro Watsuki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nobuhiro Watsuki"
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    title: "Nobuhiro Watsuki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nobuhiro Watsuki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuhiro_Watsuki"
    title: "Nobuhiro Watsuki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuhiro_Watsuki"
    title: "Nobuhiro Watsuki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Вацукі Нобухіро"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1084906"
    title: "Nobuhiro Watsuki"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump