Gege Akutami (Japanese: 芥見下々, Hepburn: Akutami Gege, born February 26, 1992) is a Japanese manga artist, known for his^{[1] [2]} work Jujutsu Kaisen. Gege Akutami is a pen name and the author's real name and identity are unknown.

Gege Akutami was born in Iwate Prefecture on February 26, 1992.^[3] Akutami moved to Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture in the fifth grade. Akutami began drawing manga by mimicking a friend, which inspired him to become a professional manga artist.^[4][5] Akutami has named Tite Kubo as an influence in his work after reading Bleach in the fourth grade, in addition to Hunter × Hunter and Neon Genesis Evangelion among other works.^[4] In 2014, Gege Akutami started working as assistant to Yasuhiro Kanō in Kiss x Death.^[6]

He published his first work the same year, titled "Kamishiro Sōsa" (神代捜査), a one-shot chapter published in Shueisha's Jump NEXT! vol. 2 on May 7, 2014.^[7][8] His next work was No.9, with a one-shot chapter published in Jump NEXT! vol. 2 on May 1, 2015,^[9] and another one-shot in the 46th issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump on October 10, 2015.^[10] Akutami would publish the one-shot "Nikai Bongai Barabarjura" (二界梵骸バラバルジュラ) in the 2016 44th issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump, released on October 3, 2016. This one-shot was nominated for the 11th "Gold Future Cup" contest of the magazine.^[11][12] In 2017, Akutami published Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical School (東京都立呪術高等専門学校, Tōkyō Toritsu Jujutsu Kōtō Senmon Gakkō), a 4-chapter series that ran in Jump GIGA from April 28 to July 28, 2017.^[13][14] This series would serve later as a prologue to his next work, Jujutsu Kaisen, being retroactively titled as Jujutsu Kaisen 0.^[15] Akutami began the publication of Jujutsu Kaisen in the 2018 14th issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump, released on March 5, 2018.^[16]

• Kamishiro Sousa (神代捜査) (2014) — one-shot published in Shueisha's Shōnen Jump Next!.^[17]
• No.9 (2015) — one-shot published in Shueisha's Shōnen Jump Next!.^[18]
• No.9 (2015) — one-shot published in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump.^[19]
• Nikai Bongai Barabarujura (二界梵骸バラバルジュラ) (2016) — one-shot published in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump.^[20]
• Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical School (東京都立呪術高等専門学校, Tōkyō Toritsu Jujutsu Kōtō Senmon Gakkō) (2017) — serialized in Shueisha's Jump GIGA.^[13][14]
• Jujutsu Kaisen (呪術廻戦) (2018–present) — serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump.^[16]

In 2016, Akutami's one-shot Nikai Bongai Barabarujura was nominated for Weekly Shōnen Jump's 11th Gold Future Cup contest.^[21] In 2019, his manga Jujutsu Kaisen was nominated for the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category.^[22] Akutami is the 2020 grand prize winner for Jujutsu Kaisen on Mando Kobayashi, Kendo Kobayashi's monthly manga variety show where winners are selected on his personal taste.^[23] In 2021, Akutami's Jujutsu Kaisen was listed as a nominee for the 25th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.^[24]