Ryoichi Ikegami
Ryoichi Ikegami 池上 遼一 | |
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Born | Takefu, Fukui Prefecture | May 29, 1944
Area(s) | Manga artist |
Notable works | Wounded Man Mai, the Psychic Girl Crying Freeman Sanctuary Heat |
Awards | Shogakukan Manga Award (2001) Inkpot Award (1995)[1] |
Ryoichi Ikegami (池上 遼一, Ikegami Ryōichi, born 29 May 1944) is a Japanese manga artist. After graduating from junior high school he moved to Osaka and drew manga while working as a billboard sign painter[2] debuting at the age of 17 writing rental comics.[3] In 1966 he published a story called Tsumi no Ishiki (罪の意識) in the gekiga magazine Garo that caught the eye of fellow Garo contributor, manga artist Shigeru Mizuki, who offered him a job as his assistant. Ikegami accepted and moved to Tokyo and worked as Mizuki's assistant for two and a half years.[4] In 2001, he won the Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga as the artist of Heat.[5] He became a professor at Osaka University of Arts in 2005.[6]
Ikegami has worked on several popular series, such as Mai, the Psychic Girl with writer , Crying Freeman, with writer Kazuo Koike, as well as Sanctuary and Heat with writer Sho Fumimura. He also wrote and drew Spider-Man: The Manga, a manga version of Spider-Man and collaborated with Garon Tsuchiya for the manga BOX (BOX 暗い箱). His most recent work is Begin currently serialized in Big Comic Superior.[7]
- From young age he admired Takao Saito and Yoshiharu Tsuge and was delighted to work with Tsuge as Mizuki's assistant[3]
- Ikegami is a fan of American comics particularly Neal Adams.[2]
- A character called Kēichi Kurata (played by Masataka Kubota) in the TV-drama GeGeGe no Nyōbō is modelled after him.
- He did a collaboration manga for the anime Girls und Panzer.[3][8]
- Yoshihide Fujiwara is his former assistant.
Selected works[]
- Spider-Man: The Manga (スパイダーマン) 1970–1971 - written by Kōsei Ono and Kazumasa Hirai
- I Ueo Boy (I・餓男 アイウエオボーイ) 1973–1977 - written by Kazuo Koike, serialized in general-interest magazine Shūkan Gendai
- Otoko Gumi (男組) 1974–1979 - written by Tetsu Kariya, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday
- Otoko Oozora (男大空) 1980–1982 - written by Tetsu Kariya, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday
- Wounded Man (傷追い人) 1981–1986 - written by Kazuo Koike
- Mai, the Psychic Girl (舞) 1985–1986 - written by Kazuya Kudō, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday
- Nobunaga (信長) 1986–1987 - written by Kazuya Kudō
- Crying Freeman (クライングフリーマン) 1986–1988 - written by Kazuo Koike
- Offered (オファード) 1990–1991 - written by Kazuo Koike
- Sanctuary (サンクチュアリ) 1990–1995 - written by Sho Fumimura
- Samurai Crusader (王立院雲丸の生涯) 1991–1992 - written by Oji Hiroi
- Strain (ストレイン) 1996–1998 - written by Buronson
- Heat (HEAT-灼熱-) 1999–2004 - written by Buronson
- Bestia - ryūgetsushō (ベスティア~流月抄) 2000–2004
- Lord (覇-LORD-) 2004–2011 - written by Buronson
- Rokumonsen Rock (六文銭ロック) 2013–2015[9] - written by Buronson
- Adam to Eve (アダムとイブ) 2015–2016 - written by Hideo Yamamoto[10]
- Begin (ビギン) 2016–2020[9] - written by Sho Fumimura
References[]
- ^ Inkpot Award
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Animerica Interview".
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Urasawa Naoki no Manben: Ikegami Ryoichi (S3E1, 2016), NHK Educational TV
- ^ McCulloch, Joe (Aug 12, 2014). "Tangled Notes Toward an Early Biography of Ryōichi Ikegami". The Comics Journal.
- ^ 小学館漫画賞:歴代受賞者 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2007-08-19.
- ^ "キャラクター造形学科 新設!!," Osaka University of Arts
- ^ "Crying Freeman's Ikegami, Fist of the North Star's Buronson Start New Series". Anime News Network. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
- ^ "Crying Freeman's Ryoichi Ikegami Draws Illustration for Girls und Panzer Spinoff Manga". Anime News Network.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Mateo, Alex (December 26, 2019). "Crying Freeman's Ikegami, Fist of the North Star's Buronson End 'Begin' Manga on January 10". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 22, 2020.
- ^ "Crying Freeman's Ikegami, Ichi the Kiler's Yamamoto to Start Adam & Eve Manga". Anime News Newtwork. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
External links[]
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