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Go Nagai

Japanese manga artist and prolific author of science fiction, fantasy, horror and erotica · Japan · On the map · Writers · Born 1945 · age 81

Kiyoshi Nagai , better known by the pen name Go Nagai , is a Japanese manga artist and a prolific author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and erotica.

Go Nagai is read about 1,121 times a day, in 22 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 10 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 115 days, one point a day.

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Awards

Romics d'Oro2016
Kodansha Manga Award1980

About this person

He made his professional debut in 1967 with Meakashi Polikichi, but is best known for creating popular 1970s manga and anime series such as Cutie Honey, Devilman, and Mazinger Z. He is credited with creating the super robot genre; designing the first mecha robots piloted by a user from within a cockpit with Mazinger Z; as well as helping pioneer the magical girl genre with Cutie Honey; the post-apocalyptic manga/anime genre with Violence Jack; and the ecchi genre with Harenchi Gakuen. In 2005, he became a Character Design professor at the Osaka University of Arts. He has been a member of the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize's nominating committee since 2009.

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Japan
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1945 · age 81

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