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Ken Akamatsu

1968 - Today

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Ken Akamatsu (赤松 健, Akamatsu Ken, born July 5, 1968) is a Japanese manga artist and politician who has served since 2022 as a member of the House of Councillors. He made his professional manga debut in 1993, and is best known as the author of Love Hina (1998–2001) and Negima! Magister Negi Magi (2003–2012), both serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine; a sequel to Negima!, UQ Holder!, was serialized from 2013 to 2022. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ken Akamatsu has received more than 376,508 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Ken Akamatsu is the 121st most popular comic artist (down from 108th in 2019), the 1,254th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,137th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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  • 380k

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  • 45.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Ken Akamatsu ranks 121 out of 174. Before him are Richard Corben, Dave Gibbons, Alex Raymond, Todd McFarlane, Larry Lieber, and Yukito Kishiro. After him are Yōichi Takahashi, Jamie Hewlett, Sylvain Chomet, Rudolph Dirks, Iginio Straffi, and Ken Sugimori.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Ken Akamatsu ranks 214. Before him are Tricky, David Ayer, Shantel, Yelena Vyalbe, Lobsang Sangay, and Sandrine Kiberlain. After him are Ellen Allien, Jamie Hewlett, Jaye Davidson, Jason Donovan, Princess Delphine of Belgium, and Carlos Latuff.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ken Akamatsu ranks 1,254 out of 6,048. Before him are Masae Kasai (1933), George W. Casey Jr. (1948), Yuji Kishioku (1954), Kuniya Daini (1944), Yukio Edano (1964), and Kazuo Imanishi (1941). After him are Yōichi Takahashi (1960), Haruhiro Yamashita (1938), Masashi Nakayama (1967), Kazuo Saito (1951), Toshio Suzuki (1955), and Kuniharu Nakamoto (1959).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Ken Akamatsu ranks 43. Before him are Nobuhiro Watsuki (1970), Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (1962), Moto Hagio (1949), Masakazu Katsura (1962), Tite Kubo (1977), and Yukito Kishiro (1967). After him are Yōichi Takahashi (1960), Ken Sugimori (1966), Tsutomu Nihei (1971), Seishi Kishimoto (1974), Hiroyuki Takei (1972), and Moyoco Anno (1971).

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