Biography

Aka Akasaka is a Japanese manga creator, and is the writer of the Oshi no Ko manga series. He is most known for being the author and illustrator of the Kaguya-sama: Love is War manga. He is also the illustrator for Vocaloid's IA and ONE. Aka Akasaka got his start as an assistant to Jinsei Kataoka and Kazuma Kondou, the creators of Deadman Wonderland. His first serialized manga was an adaptation of the light novel series Sayonara Piano Sonata, published by Kadokawa in 2011. Kaguya-sama: Love Is War began serialization in Miracle Jump in 2015 but was later moved to Weekly Young Jump in 2016 due to its popularity.

In a Tweet on November 3, 2022, he announced his retirement from drawing manga. He will continue to work on authoring his current/future works.
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Aka Akasaka is a Japanese manga creator, and is the writer of the Oshi no Ko manga series. He is most known for being the author of the Kaguya-sama: Love is War manga. Akasaka contributed to the background assets of the visual novel video game Wonderful Everyday, released in Japan in 2010. 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. 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. In August 2021, Oshi no Ko won the Next Manga Award in the print category. Following the end of Kaguya-sama, Akasaka announced on November 3, 2022, that he would retire from drawing manga to instead focus on writing. In April 2023, Akasaka launched a new manga, Renai Daikou, which is illustrated by Nishizawa 5mm.
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