Gege Akutami
Gege Akutami (Japanese: 芥見下々, Hepburn: Akutami Gege; born February 26, 1992) is a Japanese manga artist known for the manga series Jujutsu Kaisen.
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Gege Akutami
Gege Akutami (Japanese: 芥見下々, Hepburn: Akutami Gege; born February 26, 1992) is a Japanese manga artist known for the manga series Jujutsu Kaisen.
Biography
Gege Akutami
Gege Akutami was born in Iwate Prefecture, afterwards he moved to Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture in fifth grade. Akutami began drawing manga by mimicking a friend, which inspired him to become a professional manga artist. Akutami has named Tite Kubo as an influence in his work after reading Bleach in fourth grade, in addition to Hunter × Hunter and Neon Genesis Evangelion among other works. In 2014, Gege Akutami started working as an assistant to Yasuhiro Kanō in Kiss x Death.
He published his first work the same year, titled "Kamishiro Sōsa" (神代捜査), a one-shot chapter published in Shueisha's Jump NEXT! vol. 2 on May 7, 2014. His next work was No.9, with a one-shot chapter published in Jump NEXT! vol. 2 on May 1, 2015, and another one-shot in the 46th issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump on October 10, 2015. Akutami would publish the one-shot "Nikai Bongai Barabarjura" (二界梵骸バラバルジュラ) in the 2016 44th issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump, released on October 3, 2016. This one-shot was nominated for the 11th "Gold Future Cup" contest of the magazine.
In 2017, Akutami published Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical School (東京都立呪術高等専門学校, Tōkyō Toritsu Jujutsu Kōtō Senmon Gakkō), a 4-chapter series that ran in Jump Giga from April 28 to July 28, 2017. This series later served as a prologue to his next work, Jujutsu Kaisen, being retroactively titled as Jujutsu Kaisen 0. Akutami began the publication of Jujutsu Kaisen in the 2018 14th issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump, released on March 5, 2018. The series ended in the 44th issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump on September 30, 2024.
Works
Gege Akutami
<table><thead><tr><th>Title</th><th>Year</th><th>Magazine</th><th>Publisher(s)</th><th>Notes</th><th>Ref.</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Kamishiro Sousa (神代捜査)</td><td>2014</td><td>Shōnen Jump Next!</td><td>Shueisha</td><td>One-shot</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>No. 9</td><td>2015</td><td>Shōnen Jump Next!</td><td>Shueisha</td><td>One-shot</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>No. 9</td><td>2015</td><td>Weekly Shōnen Jump</td><td>Shueisha</td><td>One-shot</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Nikai Bongai Barabarujura (二界梵骸バラバルジュラ)</td><td>2016</td><td>Weekly Shōnen Jump</td><td>Shueisha</td><td>One-shot</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical School (東京都立呪術高等専門学校, Tōkyō Toritsu Jujutsu Kōtō Senmon Gakkō)</td><td>2017</td><td>Jump Giga</td><td>Shueisha (Japanese) Viz Media (English)</td><td>Manga</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Jujutsu Kaisen (呪術廻戦)</td><td>2018–2024</td><td>Weekly Shōnen Jump</td><td>Shueisha (Japanese) Viz Media (English)</td><td>Manga</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo (呪術廻戦≡（モジュロ）, Jujutsu Kaisen Mojuro)</td><td>2025–2026</td><td>Weekly Shōnen Jump</td><td>Shueisha (Japanese)</td><td>Manga (illustrated by Yuji Iwasaki)</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>
Awards
Gege Akutami
In 2016, Akutami's one-shot Nikai Bongai Barabarujura was nominated for Weekly Shōnen Jump's 11th Gold Future Cup contest. In 2019, his manga Jujutsu Kaisen was nominated for the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category. Akutami is the 2020 grand prize winner for Jujutsu Kaisen on Mando Kobayashi, Kendo Kobayashi's monthly manga variety show, where winners are selected on his personal taste. In 2021, Akutami's Jujutsu Kaisen was listed as a nominee for the 25th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.