Gege Akutami
Gege Akutami is a Japanese manga artist known for the manga series Jujutsu Kaisen.
Biography
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", 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" 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 Jujutsu Kaisen 0, 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.