# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yuu-watase
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:44:11.711Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yuu-watase"
name: "Yuu Watase"
slug: "yuu-watase"
description: "Yuu Watase  is a Japanese manga artist. She debuted in 1989 at the age of 18 with the short story \"Pajama de Ojama\" and has since published more than 50 volumes of one-shots and long-running manga series. One of her most popular titles is Fushigi Yûgi. In 1998, Watase won the 43rd Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōjo (girls') category for Ceres, Celestial Legend. In 2008, she began her first shōnen (boys') serialization, Arata: The Legend."
tagline: "Japanese manga artist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yuu_Watase.jpg?width=1200"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1970-03-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.1
  momentum:             1.048502139800285
  historical:           19.215748
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/wataseyuu_"
    handle:    "wataseyuu_"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1222062/"
    handle:    "nm1222062"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.y-watase.com/"
sources:
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    title: "渡瀨悠宇"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "يوو واتاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yuu Watase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuu_Watase"
    title: "Yuu Watase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuu_Watase"
    title: "Yuu Watase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%AB_Watase"
    title: "Yū Watase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuu_Watase"
    title: "Yuu Watase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%AB_Watase"
    title: "Yū Watase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatasze_J%C3%BA"
    title: "Vatasze Jú"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuu_Watase"
    title: "Yuu Watase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%AB_Watase"
    title: "Yū Watase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B8%A1%E7%80%AC%E6%82%A0%E5%AE%87"
    title: "渡瀬悠宇"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "와타세 유우"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "യൂ വറ്റേസ്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuu_Watase"
    title: "Yuu Watase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C3%BB_Watase"
    title: "Yû Watase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%AB_Watase"
    title: "Yū Watase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuu_Watase"
    title: "Yuu Watase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%8D%2C_%D0%AE%D1%83"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yu Watase"
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  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watase_Yuu"
    title: "Watase Yuu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Watase Yû"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234417"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1706669"
    title: "Yuu Watase"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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