Ryōichi Ikegami

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Ryōichi Ikegami ( Japanese 池上 遼 一 , Ikegami Ryōichi ; born May 29, 1944 in Echizen , Fukui Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese mangaka .

Life

In the early 1960s, Ikegami worked as a cartoonist for Kashihon (lending libraries). In 1966, Zai no Ishiki, his first manga in a magazine, appeared in the alternative manga magazine Garo, which was newly founded at the time . This short story caught the attention of Shigeru Mizuki , who then hired him as an assistant.

In the 1970s and 1980s, he had extraordinary success in Shōnen magazines such as Shōnen Sunday and Shōnen Magazine , but also in his adult magazines such as Gekiga King and Big Comic . He worked almost exclusively with authors who provided him with the stories for his drawings. One of his best-known works is Otokogumi , which he published from 1974 to 1979 together with Tetsu Kariya in the manga magazine Shōnen Sunday . The more than 4,000 page martial arts manga is about a boy who has set himself the goal of mastering all high schools in Japan.

His regular partners include the scenarioist Kazuo Koike , with whom he created Ai Ueo Boy , Kizuoibito , Akai no Hato Apiru and Crying Freeman . The latter manga is the most popular collaboration between Koike and Ikegami and, like Otokogumi , was implemented as a real film. In Crying Freeman , which appeared in Big Comic from 1986 to 1989 , the focus is on a 29-year-old and her love affair with a hit man who, after every murder committed, begins to cry out of pity for his victims.

Since 1990 Ikegami has been successfully drawing mangas based on scenarios by Buronson and Shō Fumimura, all of which appear in Big Comic Superior magazine . This is how the thrillers Sanctuary , Strain and Heat came about , as well as the historical epic Ha - Lord , on which he continues to work. The twelve anthologies by Sanctuary sold over six million copies and for Heat he was awarded the Shogakukan Manga Prize in 2002 .

He has been a professor at the Osaka Art School since 2005.

style

Ikegami's drawing style is assigned to the Gekiga genre. It is hyper-realistic and based on the American comic artist Neal Adams . The influence of American comics can be seen in Ikegami's version of Spider-Man , which he brought out from 1970 to 1971 in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine .

Ikegami shows a “monumental power of images ” , draws pictures “of overwhelming power and razor-sharp precision” and makes his stories credible “with backgrounds and effects worked out down to the smallest detail” , says Masanao Amano. His serious, dramatic and action-packed stories are mostly about men with great willpower and often with extraordinary physical strength.

Ikegami had a great influence on the generation of Gekiga draftsmen who followed him. Several of his works have been distributed internationally; his work is available in German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Chinese and Korean, with the May 1987 series being one of the first successful Japanese comics in North America.

Works

  • Spider-Man ( ス パ イ ダ ー マ ン ), 1970–1971, together with Kazumasa Hirai and Kōsei Ono
  • Hitoribocchi no Rin ( ひ と り ぼ っ ち の リ ン ), 1973, together with Shinya Atsukida
  • Ai Ueo Boy ( Ｉ ・ 餓 男 ボ ー イ ), 1973–1977, with Kazuo Koike
  • Otokogumi ( 男 組 ), 1974–1979, together with Tetsu Kariya
  • Otoko Ōzora ( 男 大 空 ), 1980–1982, together with Tetsu Kariya
  • Seiunji ( 星雲 児 ), 1983-1984
  • Kizuoibito ( 傷 追 い 人 ), 1983–1986, together with Kazuo Koike
  • May ( 舞 ), 1985–1986, together with Kazuya Kudō
  • Crying Freeman (ク ラ イ ン グ フ リ ー マ ン ), 1986–1989, together with Kazuo Koike
  • Nobunaga ( 信 長 ), 1987–1990, together with Kazuya Kudō
  • Offered ( オ フ ァ ー ド ), 1989–1990, together with Kazuo Koike
  • Sanctuary (サ ン ク チ ュ ア リ ), 1990–1995, together with Buronson
  • Box , 1991, with Caribu Marley
  • Odyssey ( オ デ ッ セ イ ), 1996, together with Buronson
  • Strain , 1996–1998, with Buronson
  • Heat , 1999–2004, with Buronson
  • Ryūgetsushō ( 流 月 抄 ), 2000–2003
  • Ha - Lord ( 覇 -LORD-), since 2004, together with Buronson

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Masanao Amano: Manga Design . Cologne 2004, Taschen Verlag, ISBN 3-8228-2591-3 , pp. 60-62.
  2. ↑ a b Jason Thompson: Manga. The Complete Guide . New York 2007, Del Rey, ISBN 978-0-345-48590-8 , p. 516.
  3. ^ Jason Thompson, p. 66.
  4. ↑ Description of the VHS for the Sanctuary real film on Amazon Japan (Japanese)
  5. ↑ Presentation at the Osaka Art School (Japanese)
personal data
SURNAME Ikegami, Ryōichi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 池上 遼 一 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese mangaka
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Echizen , Fukui Prefecture, Japan