Ken Akamatsu

Ken Akamatsu (赤松 健, Akamatsu Ken) is a Japanese mangaka born on July 5, 1968 in Kanagawa. He twice failed the entrance exam to the prestigious Tokyo University in the audiovisual studies section and ended up studying literature at Chūō University.

Like many Japanese cartoonists, he began by drawing dōjinshi for Comiket, under the pen name Awa Mizuno (水野亜和, Mizuno Awa), and later moved into commercial manga. Love Hina is the manga with which she became known to the world, although she had previously drawn AI Ga Tomaranai and Always My Santa .

Most of his works have ecchi scenes and, specifically, Love Hina and Magister Negi Magi can be considered "harem manga", since the protagonist is a boy surrounded by girls.

Akamatsu admits that his favorite character from Love Hina is Motoko Aoyama. She is 5'7" and could pass for a model. At first sight she is strong, but she enjoys drawing her because she also has a sensitive side and sometimes she breaks down crying.

The protagonist of Love Hina, Keitarô begins having twice failed the entrance exam to the University of Tokyo as happened to Ken in his own life.

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Recently, a new manga, UQ Holder!, has started in Weekly Shōnen Magazine; which debuted on August 28, 2013.

Sleeves

• AI Ga Tomaranai - 9 volumes (1994 - 1997 published in Shūkan Shōnen Magazine)

• Always My Santa (.....) Itsudatte my Santa)

• Love Hina - 14 volumes (1998-2001 published in Shūkan Shōnen Magazine)

• Magister Negi Magi (winners) Mahō Sensei Negima or simply Negima) - 38 volumes (2003-2012 published in Shūkan Shōnen Magazine)

• Hito Natsu no Kids Game ()のKIDS)ード)

• Ground Defense Force Mao-chan

• UQ Holder!!) 20 volumes - present (2012 - 2022; initially published in Shūkan Shōnen Magazine until 2016, published in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine until its completion)

Anime

• Hayate the Combat Butler! Heaven Is a Place on Earth (film, special thanks)
• Love Hina (history; he also made his own voices in two specials)
• Negima!: Magister Negi Magi (history)
• Ground Defense Force! Mao-chan (history, character design)
• Itsudatte My Santa! (history)
• Uta Kata (end blur, episode 11)
• UQ Holder!: Mahou Sensei Negima! 2 (12 episodes 3 OVA)