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Ken Akamatsu
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Ken Akamatsu was born on July 5th, 1968 in Kanagawa, Japan. His has blood type B. He has an education from Department of Literature country literature course graduate of Chuo University. When Ken was an adolescent, he has failed his entrance exam of Tokyo University (which he applied for Film Study). Akamatsu was spotlighted as an illustrator in Comike (Comic Market) in Japan. In those days, he used the pen name Awa Mizuno. Since then, Ken Akamatsu has won Weekly Shonen magazine awards twice while still in college. "A Kid's Game for One Summer" won the 50th Shonen magazine Newcomer Award soon after his graduation.

Ken later on created the manga Love Hina, one of his most successful series. Each volume has sold millions of copies world-wide. The storyline in this manga are fragments of his own life experience. His favorite character from Love Hina is Motoko Aoyama because he lies the way she looks. This series appears in Shukan Shonen magazine and is fourteen volumes long. In 2002, Tokyopop published Love Hina so that the North American fans can enjoy his work. Other popular works done by Ken Akamatsu include A.I I Love You and Negima.





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