# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tsutomu-nihei
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:01:42.257Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tsutomu-nihei"
name: "Tsutomu Nihei"
slug: "tsutomu-nihei"
description: "Tsutomu Nihei  is a Japanese manga artist. Nihei has been drawing comics professionally since the mid-1990s. In 1995, he was awarded the \"Jiro Taniguchi Special Prize\" in that year's Afternoon Four Seasons Award for his one-shot submission, Blame. After working as an assistant to veteran comic artist Tsutomu Takahashi, Nihei went on to launch his debut series Blame! in Monthly Afternoon in 1997. Following the success of Blame!, he next penned Wolverine: Snikt! and Biomega. In 2009, Nihei returned to Monthly Afternoon to launch what would become his most successful series, Knights of Sidonia. An architectural student, Nihei's early work were mainly wordless, relying on visuals and backgrounds to tell their stories. His cyberpunk-influenced artwork has gained a strong cult following worldwide."
tagline: "Japanese manga artist (b. 1971)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tsutomu_Nihei_-_Lucca_Comics_%26_Games_2015.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1971-02-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.75796933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/tsutomu_nihei"
    handle:    "tsutomu_nihei"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/touaheavyindustry"
    handle:    "touaheavyindustry"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4963204/"
    handle:    "nm4963204"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://toahi.net/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Цутому Нихей"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Cutomu Nihei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tsutomu Nihei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tsutomu Nihei"
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    title: "Tsutomu Nihei"
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    title: "Tsutomu Nihei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tsutomu Nihei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Nihei"
    title: "Tsutomu Nihei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Nihei"
    title: "Tsutomu Nihei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Нихэй, Цутому"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Cutomu Nihei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ніхей Цутому"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "貳瓶勉"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q504482"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1378883"
    title: "Tsutomu Nihei"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump