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Behind the anime
Original Creator (ep 4)
Osamu Akimoto is a Japanese manga artist from Katsushika, Tokyo.
Osamu Akimoto is a mangaka with 25 credits in Aniphoria's catalog. Osamu is from Tokyo, Japan. Their birth date is listed as December 11, 1952. Years active: 1976–present.
Behind the scenes, the most common credits are story & art (16), original creator (8), and illustration.
Our catalog lists 25 credits, including Animation × Paralympic: Who Is Your Hero?, KochiKame, and Kochikame.
Their hometown is listed as Tokyo, Japan.
The person behind the work
Osamu Akimoto (Japanese: 秋本 治, Hepburn: Akimoto Osamu; born December 11, 1952) is a Japanese manga artist from Katsushika, Tokyo. He is best known for his long-running comedy series KochiKame: Tokyo Beat Cops, which was continuously published in Weekly Shōnen Jump for 40 years from 1976 to 2016.
With 1,960 chapters collected into 201 tankōbon volumes, it held the Guinness World Record for "Most volumes published for a single manga series" from September 2016 to July 2021. The series has sold over 155 million copies, making it one of the best-selling manga series in history. Akimoto's other works include the action comedy Mr.
Clice, which has been published irregularly since 1985, and the Western series Black Tiger (2017–2023).
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25 titles listed
