History Creator / KenAkamatsu

* GiveGeeksAChance: His marriage gave hope to nerds everywhere...

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[[caption-width-right:250:Ken Akamatsu's wife. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Also, Ken Akamatsu]].]]

* FanService: If there's a fanservice trope, Akamatsu's used it. One memetic scene from ''Negima'' involved [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_msn_c_4859.jpg a waitress in the magic world]] whose appearance and clothes hit ten separate fanservice tropes in one package.[[note]]If you're curious: BareYourMidriff, CatGirl, FanServiceWithASmile, GoGoEnslavement, {{Meido}}, OfCorsetsSexy, HighClassGloves, ShowgirlSkirt, and ZettaiRyouiki[[/note]] [[FanServiceExtra For a grand total of one panel.]]

Ken Akamatsu (born July 5, 1968) is a mangaka best known for his works ''Manga/LoveHina'' and ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi''.

He's also created a new series, ''Manga/UQHolder'' which seems to be a StealthSequel to ''Negima'', picking up on what Evangeline is up to eighty years after the events of his previous manga. The manga ended in 2022 after he [[https://screenrant.com/negima-love-hina-manga-ken-akamatsu-run-office announced he would be running for councilor in the 2022 House of Councilors elections]]. He ran on a platform focusing on promoting manga, freedom of speech protections, and improved copyright protections for doujin authors. He announced his victory in on July 10th of the same year, winning the proportional ballot with about 530,000 votes, and becoming the first-ever mangaka to become a member of the Japanese parliament.

He's been working on a project called [[www.mangaz.com Manga Library Z]], formerly [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-04-11/j-comi/purify-file-shared-manga-with-authorized-ads J-Comi]], since the [=2010s=] to make currently out-of-print manga available online at no charge, as well as finding ways to allow mangakas to actually make money off of fan translations, again at no cost to the reader.

More recently, he's been working on the [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-04-11/j-comi/purify-file-shared-manga-with-authorized-ads J-Comi]] project, working to make currently out-of-print manga available online at no charge, as well as finding ways to allow mangakas to actually make money off of fan translations, again at no cost to the reader.

* FanService: If there's a fanservice trope, Akamatsu's used it. One memetic scene from ''Negima'' involved [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_msn_c_4859.jpg a waitress in the magic world]] whose appearance and clothes hit ten separate fanservice tropes in one package.[[note]]If you're curious: AbsoluteCleavage, BareYourMidriff, CatGirl, FanServiceWithASmile, GoGoEnslavement, {{Meido}}, OfCorsetsSexy, HighClassGloves, ShowgirlSkirt, and ZettaiRyouiki[[/note]] [[FanServiceExtra For a grand total of one panel.]]

He's also created a new series, ''Manga/UQHolder'' which seems to be a StealthSequel to ''Negima'', picking up on what Evangeline is up to eighty years after the events of his previous manga. The manga ended in 2022 after he [[https://screenrant.com/negima-love-hina-manga-ken-akamatsu-run-office announced he would be running for councilor in the 2022 House of Councilors elections]].

He's also known for his full espousement of the {{moe}} aesthetic and [[HaremAnime loads of cute girls following the lead]], and [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters enormous size of cast]]. While he did do earlier doujin work, try not to be confused with his assistant MAGI - who did several doujins under the circle name of Culittle - which are sometimes confused with Ken Akamatsu. As of late, though, he seems to be breaking out of this mold, as his [[Manga/UQHolder latest series]] seems to contain ''far'' less of these elements.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: ''Especially'' ''Negima'', which ''starts'' with about 35 characters and builds from there. It has the distinction of being the first series on this wiki that broke its character page ''twice'' due to being so damn long, requiring a secondary page for the other main characters. And it ''still broke the page '''again'''''. Eventually, it was divided into '''7''' character pages.

He's also created a new series, ''Manga/UQHolder'' which seems to be a StealthSequel to ''Negima'', picking up on what Evangeline is up to eighty years after the events of his previous manga.

* ''Manga/UQHolder'' (2013- ): His latest manga, a SequelSeries to ''Negima'', picking up roughly 80 years after ''Negima'''s epilogue. It's Akamatsu's first straight {{Shonen}} series, and appears to have jettisoned most (though not all) of the {{Fanservice}} and UnwantedHarem material he's most well known for.

Ken Akamatsu (born July 5, 1968) is a mangaka best known for his works ''Manga/LoveHina'' and ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima''.

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' (2003-2012): Arguably his ''other'' best known work, notable for codifying that it, ''A.I. Love You'', and ''Love Hina'' all take place in the same universe, as well as taking a ''hard'' GenreShift into shonen territory while still retaining a lot of {{Moe}}, UnwantedHarem elements, and {{Fanservice}}.

* ''HitoNatsuNoKidsGame'': His debut manga
* ''Manga/ItsudatteMySanta''
* ''Manga/AILoveYou'': The first of his manga to be (extremely tenuously) connected to one of his other series.
* ''Manga/LoveHina'': Arguably his best known work, being the TropeCodifier (or at least the most popular example) of the modern UnwantedHarem genre. It pigeonholed him as "a romantic comedy guy", a tendency he began to shift away from in subsequent series. Also known for having lots of {{Fanservice}}.
* ''Manga/MaoChan'': The beginning of his shift away from romantic comedy, though it was obscure enough that he was still pigeonholed when his next work came about.
* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'': Arguably his ''other'' best known work, notable for codifying that it, ''A.I. Love You'', and ''Love Hina'' all take place in the same universe, as well as taking a ''hard'' GenreShift into shonen territory while still retaining a lot of {{Moe}}, UnwantedHarem elements, and {{Fanservice}}.
* ''Manga/UQHolder'': His latest manga, a SequelSeries to ''Negima'', picking up roughly 80 years after ''Negima'''s epilogue. It's Akamatsu's first straight {{Shonen}} series, and appears to have jettisoned most (though not all) of the {{Fanservice}} and UnwantedHarem material he's most well known for.

* TwinkleToesSamurai: The Shinmeiryuu.

Has a hot wife who {{cosplay}}s, which some of his lead female characters (prominently, ''Love Hina''[='s=] Naru and ''Negima''[='s=] Chisame) are apparently inspired by.

[[caption-width-right:250:Ken Akamatsu's hot wife. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Also, Ken Akamatsu]].]]

[[caption-width-right:240:Ken Akamatsu's hot wife. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Also, Ken Akamatsu]].]]

* ThreeDEffectsTwoDCartoon: Akamatsu's style has been to compose his backgrounds distinct from his characters (the former increasingly done with actual CG, though some hand-drawn backgrounds still make it in), with the characters more or less pasted into the scene. On one hand, it does allow him to produce some lovely detailed backgrounds quickly as he's able to reuse elements or just pan around the created background image. On the other, the characters almost invariably have a white "halo" effect around them that can be distracting. The size of this "halo" has decreased over time (the halos in ''UQ Holder'' are easily half of what they were in ''Love Hina''), but it's still present.

* ConspicuousCG: Akamatsu's style has been to compose his backgrounds distinct from his characters (the former increasingly done with actual CG, though some hand-drawn backgrounds still make it in), with the characters more or less pasted into the scene. On one hand, it does allow him to produce some lovely detailed backgrounds quickly as he's able to reuse elements or just pan around the created background image. On the other, the characters almost invariably have a white "halo" effect around them that can be distracting. The size of this "halo" has decreased over time (the halos in ''UQ Holder'' are easily half of what they were in ''Love Hina''), but it's still present.

Ken Akamatsu (born 1968) is a mangaka best known for his works ''Manga/LoveHina'' and ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima''.

* FanService: If there's a fanservice trope, Akamatsu's used it. One memetic scene from ''Negima'' involved [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_msn_c_4859.jpg a waitress in the magic world]] whose appearance and clothes hit ten separate fanservice/FetishFuel tropes in one package.[[note]]If you're curious: AbsoluteCleavage, BareYourMidriff, CatGirl, FanServiceWithASmile, GoGoEnslavement, {{Meido}}, OfCorsetsSexy, HighClassGloves, ShowgirlSkirt, and ZettaiRyouiki[[/note]] [[FanServiceExtra For a grand total of one panel.]]

[[caption-width-right:240:Ken Akamatsu's hot wife. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Also, Ken Akamatsu]]]].

[[caption-width-right:240:Ken Akamatsu's hot wife. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Also, Ken Akamatsu]]]]

* DoingItForTheArt: Akamatsu put enormous amount of effort into ''Negima'', making it a lot more detailed than it needs to be (see ShownTheirWork below)...and then ''ended it in one swift stroke'' to prevent the rights to it from being taken from his control.

* TeasingCreator: Especially involving the relationship entanglements in ''Negima'', which eventually led to it having its own [[ShipTease/MahouSenseiNegima Ship Tease page]].

* FanService: If there's a fanservice trope, Akamatsu's used it. One memetic scene from ''Negima'' involved [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_msn_c_4859.jpg a waitress in the magic world]] whose appearance and clothes hit ten separate fanservice/FetishFuel tropes in one package.[[note]]If you're curious: AbsoluteCleavage, BareYourMidriff, CatGirl, FanServiceWithASmile, GoGoEnslavement, {{Meido}}, OfCorsetsSexy, HighClassGloves, ShowgirlSkirt, and ZettaiRyouiki[[/note]]

* TheVerse: ''Love Hina'', ''Negima'', and ''UQ Holder'' all take place in the same universe; ''A.I. Love You'' also has a tenuous connection.

* CulturalCrossReference: Everything from ''Franchise/StarWars'' to ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'' to "Ku:Nel Sanders" to Creator/SylvesterStallone.

* ''Manga/UQHolder'': His latest manga, a SequelSeries to ''Negima'', picking up roughly 80 years after ''Negima'''s epilogue. It's Akamatsu's first straight {{Shonen}} series, and appears to have jettisoned most of the {{Fanservice}} and UnwantedHarem material he's most well known for.

* FanService: If there's a fanservice trope, Akamatsu's used it. One memetic scene from ''Negima'' involved [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_msn_c_4859.jpg a waitress in the magic world]] whose appearance and clothes hit ten separate fanservice/FetishFuel tropes in one package.[[note]]If you're curious: AbsoluteCleavage, BareYourMidriff, CatGirl, FanServiceWithASmile, GoGoEnslavement, {{Meido}}, OfCorsetsSexy, OperaGloves, ShowgirlSkirt, and ZettaiRyouiki[[/note]]