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Template:Nihongo[1] is a Japanese manga artist and writer best known for his series Kaguya-sama: Love Is War and Oshi no Ko.
Biography
Akasaka contributed to the background assets of the visual novel video game Wonderful Everyday, released in Japan in 2010.[2] His series Kaguya-sama: Love Is War was serialized in Shueisha's Miracle Jump between May 2015 and January 2016, and was then transferred to Weekly Young Jump starting from March 2016. It was the 9th best selling manga in Japan in 2019, with over 4 million copies sold.[3] In 2020, he won the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category with the manga. Starting from April 2020, his work Oshi no Ko, which is illustrated by Mengo Yokoyari, is serialized in Weekly Young Jump and is his second active series on the magazine at the same time.[4] In August 2021, Oshi no Ko won the Next Manga Award in the print category.[5]
Following the end of Kaguya-sama, Akasaka announced on November 3, 2022, that he would retire from drawing manga to instead focus on writing.[6]
In April 2023, Akasaka launched a new manga, Renai Daikō, which is illustrated by Nishizawa 5mm.[7]
Works
Manga
- Template:Nihongo (2011–2012, story by Hikaru Sugii, character design by Ryō Ueda)
- Template:Nihongo (2013–2015)[8]
- Template:Nihongo (2015–2022)
- Template:Nihongo (2020–2024, illustrated by Mengo Yokoyari)
- Template:Nihongo (2023–2024, illustrated by Nishizawa 5mm)[9]
Video games
- Wonderful Everyday (background assets)
Awards and nominations
Template:Awards table |- ! 2015 | rowspan="2" | Next Manga Award | Manga I Want to Sell in the Future | Ib: Instant Bullet | Template:Longlisted |[10] |- ! 2017 | Print Manga | Kaguya-sama: Love Is War | Template:Won |[11] |- ! rowspan="2"| 2020 | Shogakukan Manga Award | General Manga | Kaguya-sama: Love Is War | Template:Won |[12] |- | BookWalker Awards | Grand Prize | Kaguya-sama: Love Is War | Template:Won |[13] |- ! rowspan="2"| 2021 | Manga Taishō | Template:Sdash | Oshi no Ko | Template:Longlisted |[14] |- | Next Manga Award | Print Manga | Oshi no Ko | Template:Won |[15] |- ! rowspan="4"| 2022 | Shogakukan Manga Award | General Manga | Oshi no Ko | Template:Nom |[16] |- | Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize | Grand Prize | Oshi no Ko | Template:Nom |[17] |- | Manga Taishō | Template:Sdash | Oshi no Ko | Template:Longlisted |[18] |- | Kodansha Manga Award | General Manga | Oshi no Ko | Template:Nom |[19] |- Template:End
References
Further reading
External links
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