Manatsu Akimoto

Eleven years is an absurdly long run inside an idol group, and Manatsu Akimoto managed it, from the debut of Nogizaka46 in February 2012 to her graduation concert in February 2023, the last first-generation member to leave. She also captained the group. People used to call her calculating, too deliberately cute, always playing to the camera, and that reading misses the craft involved. Someone has to volunteer to be the one laughed at, and almost nobody holds that position for years without turning bitter. She joined at eighteen from Saitama and finished as the member the newer girls had grown up watching. Not the flashiest career in the group's history, but I would argue it was load-bearing.

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Name (English)

Manatsu Akimoto

Name (Japanese)

秋元真夏

Reading

あきもと まなつ

Born

August 20, 1993 (age 33)

Origin

Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Height

156 cm

Occupation

actor / Japanese idol

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rooster

Blood type

B

Active years

2011 -

University

Ferris University

Works summary

Appearances

63 (2013–2026)

By year (titles with a known year)

2013: 2, 2014: 1, 2015: 2, 2016: 4, 2017: 1, 2018: 3, 2019: 7, 2020: 5, 2021: 4, 2022: 4, 2023: 10, 2024: 11, 2025: 4, 2026: 3, year unknown: 2

Debut work

BAD BOYS J

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://www.nogizaka46.com/member/detail/akimotomanatsu.php
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/manatsu.akimoto_official/
• Xhttps://x.com/manatsusanstaff
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manatsu%20Akimoto
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A7%8B%E5%85%83%E7%9C%9F%E5%A4%8F
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11594857

Tags

• Saitama Prefecture
• actor
• Japanese idol

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. Works and profile fields sourced from Wikipedia reflect content as of 2026-08-26. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.