Aka Asaka, writer of the popular manga Oshi no Ko is celebrating his 35th birthday today, August 29. Therefore, through this article we will take a look at the career of this mangaka who has given us popular works that are well loved and recognized by the community of anime and manga fans as a way of celebrating his birthday.
Aka Asaka writer of works such as Oshi no Ko celebrates his birthday today.
Aka Akasaka was born on August 20, 1988 in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. His best known works are Kaguya-sama a shonen series that debuted in 2015, ending with a total of 28 volumes, and Oshi no Ko, a seinen series that debuted in 2020 and is still currently in publication. Both stories have an anime adaptation, in the case of Kaguya-sama, its premiere was in the year 2019 and Oshi no Ko, in the year 2024, in addition at this moment the transmission of its second season is in progress.
In his beginnings he was assistant to Jinsei Kataoka and Kazuma Kondou, who created the popular manga series Deadman Wonderland. In addition to this, he made illustrations for the vocaloid IA and the cevio ONE. When he began to publish his works, he did so in a magazine called Dengeki Maoh, which belongs to the ASCII Media Works publishing house, later he began to do so in the famous Shonen Jump magazine of the equally popular Shueisha publishing house.
Aka Akasaka is not his real name, but it is a pseudonym used by this mangaka, besides this another pseudonym used by the mangaka is Ogawa Hariko, with which he signs his work On-site☆Report. In interviews that have been conducted, the mangaka has told that some of the influences he has had are School Rumble to create Kaguya-sama and Neon Genesis Evangelion inspired him to create his work ib- Instant Bullet. He has also said that he is a follower of works such as Chihayafuru, in addition to the aforementioned Neon Genesis Evangelion and School Rumble.
Throughout his career, Aka Akasaka has been nominated for and won several awards, such as the Next Manga Award, which he won three times, in 2017, 2020 for Kaguya-sama and in 2021 for Oshi no Ko. His works have become a huge success, gaining millions of fans around the world and gaining more and more popularity within the anime and manga community.
Although Kaguya-sama has already ended its publication, to date it continues to be a story that otakus remember very well. Something similar happens with Oshi no Ko, whose manga is still in publication, as well as the current broadcast of its second season of the anime, its popularity has been increasing over the years and it is a story that keeps fans of this franchise attentive with news about it.
Aka Akasaka is constantly involved in the anime adaptation of his works, so this is probably one of the factors why the series have been so successful with anime fans, since he makes sure that the same feeling that is transmitted to the manga readers is achieved in the anime adaptation.
