Aka Akasaka

Aka Akasaka (赤坂 アカ) is a Japanese manga artist and writer best known for his series Kaguya-sama: Love Is War and Oshi no Ko.

Biography
Akasaka contributed to the background assets of the visual novel video game Wonderful Everyday, released in Japan in 2010. His series Kaguya-sama: Love Is War was serialized in Shueisha's Miracle Jump between May 2015 and January 2016, and was then transferred to Weekly Young Jump starting from March 2016. It was the 9th best selling manga in Japan in 2019, with over 4 million copies sold. In 2020, he won the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category with the manga. Starting from April 2020, his work Oshi no Ko, which is illustrated by Mengo Yokoyari, is serialized in Weekly Young Jump and is his second active series on the magazine at the same time. In August 2021, Oshi no Ko won the Next Manga Award in the print category.

Following the end of Kaguya-sama, Akasaka announced on November 3, 2022, that he would retire from drawing manga to instead focus on writing.

In April 2023, Akasaka launched a new manga, Ren'ai Daikō, which is illustrated by Nishizawa 5mm.

Manga

 * Sayonara Piano Sonata (さよならピアノソナタ) (2011–2012, story by Hikaru Sugii, character design by Ryō Ueda)
 * Ib: Instant Bullet (ib －インスタントバレット－) (2013–2015)
 * Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (かぐや様は告らせたい ～天才たちの恋愛頭脳戦～) (2015–2022)
 * Oshi no Ko (【推しの子】) (2020–present, illustrated by Mengo Yokoyari)
 * Ren'ai Daikō (恋愛代行) (2023–2024, illustrated by Nishizawa 5mm)

Video games

 * Wonderful Everyday (background assets)

Awards and nominations
! 2015 ! 2017 ! rowspan="2"| 2020 ! rowspan="2"| 2021 ! rowspan="4"| 2022
 * rowspan="2" | Next Manga Award
 * Manga I Want to Sell in the Future
 * Ib: Instant Bullet
 * 13th place
 * Print Manga
 * Kaguya-sama: Love Is War
 * Won
 * Shogakukan Manga Award
 * General Manga
 * Kaguya-sama: Love Is War
 * Won
 * BookWalker Awards
 * Grand Prize
 * Kaguya-sama: Love Is War
 * Won
 * Kaguya-sama: Love Is War
 * Won
 * Manga Taishō
 * Oshi no Ko
 * 5th place
 * Next Manga Award
 * Print Manga
 * Oshi no Ko
 * Won
 * Print Manga
 * Oshi no Ko
 * Won
 * Shogakukan Manga Award
 * General Manga
 * Oshi no Ko
 * Nominated
 * Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize
 * Grand Prize
 * Oshi no Ko
 * Nominated
 * Manga Taishō
 * Oshi no Ko
 * 8th place
 * Kodansha Manga Award
 * General Manga
 * Oshi no Ko
 * Nominated
 * 8th place
 * Kodansha Manga Award
 * General Manga
 * Oshi no Ko
 * Nominated
 * Oshi no Ko
 * Nominated