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What's Michael?

Japanese manga series
VisualArtwork manga_series Q1033127
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Summary

What's Michael? is a manga series[1]. What's Michael? draws 2,230 Wikipedia views per month (manga series category, ranking #611 of 3,049).[2]

Key Facts

  • Author: Makoto Kobayashi[3]
  • Award received: Kodansha Manga Award[4]
  • Illustrator: Makoto Kobayashi[5]
  • Publisher: Kodansha[6]
  • Genre: comedy anime and manga[7]
  • Language of work or name: Japanese[8]
  • Country of origin: Japan[9]
  • Start time: 1984[10]
  • End time: 2003[11]
  • Published in: Morning[12], Evening[13]
  • Title: ホワッツマイケル[14]
  • Intended public: seinen[15]
  • Number of parts of this work: 9 volume[16]
  • Derivative work: What's Michael?[17], What's Michael? 2[18], Michael English Daibouken[19]

Why It Matters

What's Michael? has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] What's Michael? is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

FAQs

What awards did What's Michael? receive?

Honors received include Kodansha Manga Award[4].

Related Entities

Japan

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 17d ago · ならちゃん · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Genre → comedy anime and manga
    Wikipedia languages → ['en', 'fr', 'it', 'ja', 'pl', 'pt', 'ru', 'zh']
    Award received → Kodansha Manga Award
    Published in → Morning, Evening
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Derivative work: Michael English Daibouken, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1790846661412"
  2. 20w ago · RosePickfair · 2026-05-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Genre → comedy anime and manga
    Instance of → manga series
    Aliases → —
    Author → Makoto Kobayashi
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Start time: 1984"
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