Who is Osamu Akimoto, creator of KochiKame?

Who is Osamu Akimoto

Serialized from September 1976 to September 2016 — exactly 40 years — KochiKame ran for 1,960 chapters across 200 tankōbon volumes without skipping a single week, a feat that earned him a Guinness World Record. Beyond KochiKame, Akimoto worked on Mr. Clice and Black Tiger. The series follows Ryotsu Kankichi, a slacker police officer at the Kameari Park police box in Katsushika, Tokyo, and has become a cultural touchstone in Japan.

秋本治 Born 1952

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KochiKame

1976–2016Writer & Artist

KochiKame

Officer Kankichi Ryotsu, lazy, greedy and sometimes brilliant, causes chaos from his police box in a Tokyo neighborhood for forty straight years.

200volumes

1,958chapters

70times it opened the magazine

ComedySlice of LifePolice

KochiKame debuted in Weekly Shōnen Jump No. 29 · 1976, on sale June 22, 1976. That same issue also carried Toilet Hakase, Circuit no Ōkami and Doberman Deka. Its last chapter in the magazine, number 1958, ran in No. 42 · 2016 (September 17, 2016), after 40 years of serialization.

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