Osamu Akimoto

Osamu Akimoto (秋本 治, Akimoto Osamu^?) is a Japanese manga artist born on December 11, 1952 in Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan. He is best known for his long running series Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo, which has been continuously published in Weekly Shonen Jump since 1976. Currently running over 1600 chapters, it is the longest-running manga series in history, and as of volume 158 the series has sold over 135 million copies.^[1] He debuted with Kochikame under the pen name of "Tatsuhiko Yamadome" in 1976. He changed his name to Osamu Akimoto in 1978 after Kochikame's Anime reached its 100th episode.

Works

• Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo (serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump)
• Mr. Clice (1989 serialized in Monthly Shonen Jump)
• Time… (serialized in Jump SQ.)

Assistants

• Chinatsu Tomizawa
• Hiroshi Aro
• Masatoshi Usune
• Naoki Azuma
• Shōgo Sakamoto
• Yosshihiro Kuroiwa

References

1. ^ http://comipress.com/article/2007/05/06/1923

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