# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/osamu-akimoto
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:35:36.167Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/osamu-akimoto"
name: "Osamu Akimoto"
slug: "osamu-akimoto"
description: "Osamu Akimoto  is a Japanese manga artist from Katsushika, Tokyo. He is best known for his long-running comedy series KochiKame: Tokyo Beat Cops, which was continuously published in Weekly Shōnen Jump for 40 years from 1976 to 2016. With 1,960 chapters collected into 201 tankōbon volumes, it held the Guinness World Record for \"Most volumes published for a single manga series\" from September 2016 to July 2021. The series has sold over 155 million copies, making it one of the best-selling manga series in history. Akimoto's other works include the action comedy Mr. Clice, which has been published irregularly since 1985, and the Western series Black Tiger (2017–2023)."
tagline: "Japanese manga artist (1952-)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/fu38kDNMZBzDAHdXfz7jgYIyF3q.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-12-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.69
  momentum:             3.816610335561045
  historical:           13.71865733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0015339/"
    handle:    "nm0015339"
sources:
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    title: "秋本治"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ওসামু আকিমোতো"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Osamu Akimoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ئۆسامو ئاکیمۆتۆ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osamu_Akimoto"
    title: "Osamu Akimoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akimoto_Osamu"
    title: "Akimoto Osamu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osamu_Akimoto"
    title: "Osamu Akimoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osamu_Akimoto"
    title: "Osamu Akimoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osamu_Akimoto"
    title: "Osamu Akimoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "아키모토 오사무"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Osamu Akimoto"
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    title: "Osamu Akimoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_min_nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akimoto_Osamu"
    title: "Akimoto Osamu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1321466"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/552633"
    title: "Osamu Akimoto"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump