Career
He is best known for his long-running series Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo, which has been continuously published in Weekly Shonen Jump since 1976. With over 1800 chapters collected into 194 tankōbon volumes, it is the manga series with the highest number of volumes. By February 2012, the series had sold over 155 million copies, making it one of the best-selling manga series in history.
He debuted with Kochikame under the pen name of "Tatsuhiko Yamadome" (山止 たつひこ) in 1976.
He changed to using his real name in 1978, after Kochikame reached its 100th chapter. In November 2010, Akimoto was one of several manga artists that held a press conference in opposition to Tokyo Metropolitan Ordinance Regarding the Healthy Development of Youths"s Bill 156.
In February 2014, he drew the one-shot "Vocalo" which is set 50 years after the rise of Vocaloid technology and ran in the shōjo manga magazine Margaret. The following year, Grand Jump published his one-shot in January 2015.
Chinatsu Tomizawa Hiroshi Aro Usune Masatoshi Naoki Azuma Shōgo Sakamoto Yoshihiro Kuroiwa.
