George Akiyama (ジョージ秋山 ,Jōji Akiyama, born Yūji Akiyama (秋山 勇二) on April 27, 1943 in Ashikaga, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan), is a Japanese manga artist known for dealing with controversial and incendiary topics in many of his works.
Akiyama quit high school and moved to Tokyo to become a manga artist. After working briefly as a book wholesaler, he became an assistant for manga artist Kenji Morita. He made his major debut in 1966 with the gag-manga ...
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George Akiyama (ジョージ秋山 ,Jōji Akiyama, born Yūji Akiyama (秋山 勇二) on April 27, 1943 in Ashikaga, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan), is a Japanese manga artist known for dealing with controversial and incendiary topics in many of his works.
Akiyama quit high school and moved to Tokyo to become a manga artist. After working briefly as a book wholesaler, he became an assistant for manga artist Kenji Morita. He made his major debut in 1966 with the gag-manga Gaikotsu-kun, which was published in Bekkan Shōnen Magazine, and shocked readers in 1970 with Ashura, which contained numerous unsettling depictions of human life. The first chapter of Ashura contains a scene where a woman commits cannibalism to prevent herself from dying of starvation, and later attempts to eat her own child as well. The August 2, 1970 edition of Weekly Shōnen Magazine which first published this chapter was banned in several regions as a result of this scene, propelling Akiyama to infamy within the manga industry. Akiyama...
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