 After repeating this for the duration of the manga, Akiyama suddenly announced his retirement, cutting off all of the serializations he held on various magazines to embark on a solo journey across Japan.Akiyama came out of retirement only 3 months later with "Bara no Sakamichi", which began serialization in the 34th edition of "Weekly Shōnen Jump" in 1971.He started his longest work, Haguregumo, on "Big Comic Original", which won him the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1979.