Ryoichi Ikegami, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ryoichi Ikegami

Manga artist

Date of Birth: 29-May-1944

Place of Birth: Japan

Profession: mangaka, university teacher

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Ryoichi Ikegami (?? ??, Ikegami Ryoichi, 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 debuting at the age of 17 writing rental comics.
In 1966 he published a story called Tsumi no Ishiki (????) 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.
In 2001, he won the Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga as the artist of Heat.
He became a professor at Osaka University of Arts in 2005.Ikegami has worked on several popular series, such as Mai, the Psychic Girl with writer Kazuya Kudo, 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 ???).
His most recent work is Begin currently serialized in Big Comic Superior. From young age he admired Takao Saito and Yoshiharu Tsuge and was delighted to work with Tsuge as Mizuki's assistantIkegami is a fan of American comics particularly Neal Adams.A character called Keichi Kurata (played by Masataka Kubota) in the TV-drama GeGeGe no Nyobo is modelled after him.He did a collaboration manga for the anime Girls und Panzer.Yoshihide Fujiwara is his former assistant.