COMIC ARTIST

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 400,939 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Ken Akamatsu is the 123rd most popular comic artist (down from 120th in 2019), the 1,314th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,251st in 2019) and the 44th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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  • 400k

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  • 47.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Ken Akamatsu ranks 123 out of 226. Before him are Masakazu Katsura, Tite Kubo, Richard Corben, Roy Thomas, Larry Lieber, and Rudolph Dirks. After him are François Bourgeon, Iginio Straffi, Ken Sugimori, Ōten Shimokawa, Raymond Briggs, and Momoko Sakura.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Ken Akamatsu ranks 219. Before him are Edward Burns, Yevgeny Shevchuk, Pete Docter, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Shawn Levy, and Carlos Latuff. After him are Cheb Hasni, Nadia Calviño, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Oleh Tyahnybok, Vlado Šola, and Slaviša Jokanović.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ken Akamatsu ranks 1,314 out of 6,245. Before him are Ukyo Katayama (1963), Sakai Toshihiko (1871), Hyde (1969), Shinobu Ikeda (1962), Tsutomu Seki (1930), and Peter Takeo Okada (1941). After him are Ken Uehara (1909), Kazushi Kimura (1958), Kenjirō Tokutomi (1868), Hidetaka Nishiyama (1928), Kenyu Horiuchi (1957), and Hiroyuki Sawano (1980).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Ken Akamatsu ranks 44. Before him are Hiro Mashima (1977), Yōichi Takahashi (1960), Nobuhiro Watsuki (1970), Keiko Takemiya (1950), Masakazu Katsura (1962), and Tite Kubo (1977). After him are Ken Sugimori (1966), Ōten Shimokawa (1892), Momoko Sakura (1965), Tsutomu Nihei (1971), Kouta Hirano (1973), and Yukito Kishiro (1967).

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