Having penned two separate manga spanning 40 years each is no small feat. Akimoto Osamu’s 秋本治 signature work, the episodic police comedy Kochikame, ran in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1976 through 2016, spanning 4 decades and 200 volumes! While handling weekly serialization (and supposedly never missing a deadline), Akimoto debuted a side project in the sister magazine Monthly Shonen Jump in 1985- an episodic spy […]
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