Now Viewing: akamatsu_kenTag type: Artist 赤松 健 A male Mangaka/politician born on July 5, 1968 in Nagoya, Japan. He is the son of a bureaucrat in the Ministry of Agriculture. He is most famous for his romantic comedies like A.I._Love_You and Love_Hina. After Love Hina's success he has moved on to try his hand at other genres. His next series Mahou_Sensei_Negima is notable for appearing to be another romantic comedy, but gradually transforming into a fantasy action adventure series. He got his start in writing and drawing doujins where he went by the name Mizuno Awa. He credits Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon for getting him interested in anime/manga and eventually become a mangaka himself. When he was in college, he won the Weekly Shounen Magazine Award twice and his first manga, Hito Natsu no Kids Game, won the 50th Shounen Magazine's Rookie Award. Said manga became his breakthrough work and encouraged him to keep writing and drawing manga. His manga work is generally lighthearted and comedic with his characters often having an awareness of genre conventions and often invoke and discuss them for comedic effect. His stories' casts are heavily dominated by moe female characters and his work often features plenty of fanservice, only shying away from explicitly showing the characters' nipples and bare crotch. He often puts his female characters in cosplay outfits, and his eventual wife Akamatsu Kanon, is also a cosplayer in real life. All of his manga work plus the anime Mao-chan appear to take place in the same universe as Akamatsu incorporates references to his past work in his creation. By 2022, his manga sold a total of over 50 million copies worldwide. He also bears a resemblance to the protagonist of Love Hina, Urashima Keitaro. Outside of his manga, he is known for his real life work promoting freedom of expression in manga and manga/game preservation. He has also worked on the online J-Comi Project, later renamed Manga Library Z which aims to put out of print manga online free of charge for everyone to read. He has gotten involved in multiple campaigns opposing attempts by the Japanese government to censor manga and expand copyright laws. All of this political work eventually culminated in Akamatsu following in his father's footsteps to become a politician himself. He ran in 2022 election for the national proportional representation block of the House of Councillors and ultimately won a seat in the National Diet. This gives Akamatsu the distinction of being the first mangaka to ever have a position in the Diet. His works: www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=378 Website: www.ailove.net/main.html Twitter: twitter.com/KenAkamatsu Other Wiki Information Last updated: 08/19/22 11:35 AM by jojosstand This entry is not locked and you can edit it as you see fit. |
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