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Behind the anime
Original Creator
Ken Akamatsu is a Japanese mangaka from Tokyo.
Ken Akamatsu has 28 listed credits as a mangaka. Ken is from Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Born July 5, 1968. Years active: 1993–present.
Voice roles on record include work in Love Hina, Love Hina Christmas Movie, and Love Hina Spring Movie. Behind the scenes, the most common credits are original creator (16), story & art (4), and endcard (2).
Our catalog lists 28 credits, including Maho Sensei Negima! ANIME FINAL, Love Hina Spring Movie, and Love Hina: Motoko's Choice, Love or the Sword: Don't Cry.
Listed roles include Ken Akamatsu.
Their hometown is listed as Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
The person behind the work
Ken Akamatsu is a Japanese mangaka from Tokyo. In his teenage years, Akamatsu failed the entrance exam to Tokyo University, and applied for Film Study instead (it is speculated that this is where he got the idea for Love Hina). Eventually, he became famous as an illustrator featured in Comiket (short for Comic Market, a comic convention bi-annually held in Japan). He used the pen name Awa Mizuno (水野亜和).
Akamatsu, still in college, then proceeded to win the Weekly Shonen Magazine award twice. His "A Kid's Game for One Summer" was awarded the coveted 50th Shonen Magazine Newcomer's Award soon after he graduated. After a big hit with A.I. Love You, he finally made a grand success with his new manga, Love Hina.
The series appeared in Weekly Shonen Magazine and has been collected in eleven volumes (with fourteen volumes in total), which have sold over 6 million copies in Japan, and received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen in 2001.
Akamatsu had added elements of his own life experiences to the story, and this was said to have induced a unique feeling to the manga especially for Western readers, whose lack of familiarity with Japanese culture for the most part added to the effect.
The series, published in America in 2002, was especially well received in many overseas countries - Akamatsu was surprised that even foreign readers found Love Hina to be "cute" and to their liking. He is now married to his wife 'Kanon' Akamatsu, who was previously a singer/idol. Since 2022, he has held a seat in the House of Councillors proportional representation block of the National Diet.
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