is a Japanese manga artist known for the manga series Jujutsu Kaisen.
Gege Akutami was born in Iwate Prefecture, afterwards he moved to Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture in fifth grade. Akutami began drawing manga by mimicking a friend, which inspired him to become a professional manga artist. Akutami has named Tite Kubo as an influence in his work after reading Bleach in fourth grade, in addition to Hunter àHunter and Neon Genesis Evangelion among other works. In 2014, Gege Akutami started working as an assistant to Yasuhiro Kanà  in Kiss x Death.
He published his first work the same year, titled , a one-shot chapter published in Shueisha's Jump NEXT! vol. 2 on May 7, 2014. His next work was No.9, with a one-shot chapter published in Jump NEXT! vol. 2 on May 1, 2015, and another one-shot in the 46th issue of Weekly Shà Ânen Jump on October 10, 2015. Akutami would publish the one-shot in the 2016 44th issue of Weekly Shà Ânen Jump, released on October 3, 2016. This one-shot was nominated for the 11th "Gold Future Cup" contest of the magazine.
In 2017, Akutami published , a 4-chapter series that ran in Jump Giga from April 28 to July 28, 2017. This series later served as a prologue to his next work, Jujutsu Kaisen, being retroactively titled as Jujutsu Kaisen 0. Akutami began the publication of Jujutsu Kaisen in the 2018 14th issue of Weekly Shà Ânen Jump, released on March 5, 2018. The series ended in the 44th issue of Weekly Shà Ânen Jump on September 30, 2024.
In 2016, Akutami's one-shot Nikai Bongai Barabarujura was nominated for Weekly Shà Ânen Jumps 11th Gold Future Cup contest. In 2019, his manga Jujutsu Kaisen was nominated for the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shà Ânen category. 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. In 2021, Akutami's Jujutsu Kaisen was listed as a nominee for the 25th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.