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  Nobuhiro Watsuki

  Japanese manga artist (born 1970)

  Nobuhiro Nishiwaki (Japanese: 西脇 伸宏, Hepburn: Nishiwaki Nobuhiro, born May 26, 1970), better known by his pen nameNobuhiro Watsuki (和月 伸宏, Watsuki Nobuhiro), 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).

  Watsuki has written three more manga series, Gun Blaze West (2001), Buso Renkin (2003–2005), and Embalming: The Another Tale of Frankenstein (2007–2015). He has mentored several well-known manga artists, including One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda, Shaman King creator Hiroyuki Takei, and Mr. Fullswing creator Shinya Suzuki [ja].^[1] Watsuki was convicted of possessing child pornography in 2018.

  Early life

  Watsuki was born on May 26, 1970, in Tokyo and was brought up in Nagaoka, Niigata.^[2] When he was in middle school, Watsuki practiced k

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  Nobuhiro Watsuki

  Rurouni Kenshin, Volume 01
  

  4.32 avg rating — 44,681 ratings — published 1994 — 34 editions

  Rurouni Kenshin, Volume 03
  

  4.43 avg rating — 7,215 ratings — published 1995 — 23 editions

  Rurouni Kenshin, Volume 02
  

  4.37 avg rating — 5,266 ratings — published 1994 — 26 editions

  Rurouni Kenshin, Volume 04
  

  4.37 avg rating — 3,961 ratings — published 1995 — 20 editions

  Rurouni Kenshin, Volume 08
  

  4.42 avg rating — 3,293 ratings — published 1995 — 20 editions

  Rurouni Kenshin, Volume 06
  

  4.35 avg rating — 3,256 ratings — published 1995 — 24 editions

  Rurouni Kenshin, Volume 07
  

  4.42 avg rating — 3,054 ratings — published 1995 — 25 editions

  Rurouni Kenshin, Volume 05
  

  4.32 avg rating — 3,084 ratings — published 1995 — 21 editions

  Rurouni Kenshin, Volume 09
  

  4.38 avg rating — 2,608 ratings — published 1996 — 20 editions

  Rurouni Kenshin, Volume 10