Gege Akutami

Gege Akutami is a Japanese manga artist known for Jujutsu Kaisen. The series began in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump on March 5, 2018, and ended on September 30, 2024.

Akutami's first published work was the one-shot Kamishiro Sōsa in Jump NEXT! in 2014, the same year Akutami worked as an assistant to Yasuhiro Kanō. More one-shots followed in Jump NEXT! and Weekly Shōnen Jump.

In 2017 Akutami ran the four-chapter Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical School in Jump Giga. It became the prologue to Jujutsu Kaisen and was later retitled Jujutsu Kaisen 0. The main series was nominated for the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2019 and the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2021.