{"id":13186,"date":"2008-08-04T10:37:02","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T14:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=13186"},"modified":"2008-08-04T21:28:23","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T01:28:23","slug":"fujio-akatsuka-dead-at-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/fujio-akatsuka-dead-at-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Fujio Akatsuka Dead at 72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/fujio-akatsuka-dead-at-72.jpg\" alt=\"Fujio Akatsuka Dead at 72\" title=\"Fujio Akatsuka Dead at 72\" width=\"450\" height=\"296\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/fujio-akatsuka-dead-at-72.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/fujio-akatsuka-dead-at-72-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fujio Akatsuka, one of the giants of the manga industry, passed away of pneumonia in a Tokyo hospital on Saturday, August 2, at 4:55 p.m. He was 72. Akatsuka made his professional creative debut with <strong>Arashi o Koete<\/strong> in 1956, and published his first hit, the Osomatsu-kun gag manga, in 1962. Akatsuka went on to create popular comedies including Moretsu Atarou, Tensai Bakabon, and Hennako-chan, along with the Himitsu no Akko-chan magical girl manga. The Japan Cartoonists Association recognized Akatsuka with the Literary Giant Award in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Akatsuka&#8217;s Moretsu Ataro was adapted into anime TV series in 1969 and 1990. Tensai Bakabon was adapted into anime TV series in 1971, 1975, 1990, and 1999. Osomatsu-kun was animated for television in 1966 &amp; 1988. Himitsu no Akko-chan had three anime TV series adaptations in 1969, 1988, and 1998. Hennako-chan premiered as a web anime series in April 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2008-08-02\/tensai-bakabon-akko-chan-creator-fujio-akatsuka-dies\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fujio Akatsuka, one of the giants of the manga industry, passed away of pneumonia in a Tokyo hospital on Saturday, August 2, at 4:55 p.m. He was 72. Akatsuka made his professional creative debut with Arashi o Koete in 1956, and published his first hit, the Osomatsu-kun gag manga, in 1962. Akatsuka went on to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}