Shigeto Ikehara

Shigeto Ikehara

Shigeto Ikehara (池原 しげと, Ikehara Shigeto, born February 26, 1952 in Nyūzen, Toyama), born Shigetoshi Ikehara (池原 成利, Ikehara Shigetoshi), is a Japanese mangaka. In 1970 he joined Tezuka Productions and became one of Osamu Tezuka's pupils. He began working as an assistant in Tezuka's works, like Marvelous Melmo and Miracle Shoujo Limit-chan.

Works

Manga

Mega Man related:

• Rock'n Game Boy
• Rockman
• Rockman: Dr. Wily no Inbou (Rockman 2)
• Rockman 4
• Rockman 5
• Rockman 6
• Rockman 7
• Rockman World
• Rockman World 2
• Rockman World 3
• Rockman: Yomigaeru Blues
• Irregular Hunter Rockman X
• Rockman X2
• Rockman X3

Other works:

• Aura Battler Dunbine
• Famicom Fuunji
• Fireman
• Heavy Metal L-Gaim
• Hikami no Princess
• Jetter Mars (1979 version from Televiland Comics Issue)
• Majokko Megu-chan
• Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
• Pro Golfer Ichijō Kazuya
• Space Runaway Ideon (Comic BomBom version)
• Science Fiction Saiyuki Starzinger
• Thunder Mask (one of its manga versions)
• Marine Express (2016-2018 manga)

Webcomic

• Monsieur Akashi (artist)

Gallery

Mega Man 25th anniversary tribute art.

Mega Man, Roll, Rush and Eddie artwork

Rockman (manga) Illustrations

Irregular Hunter Rockman X (manga), X and Zero art

Trivia

• In his initial Mega Man manga works, Ikehara's design for Mega Man resembled Astro Boy, but due to Capcom's desire to standardize the character's image, the design was changed from the seventh manga in the series, Rockman: Dr. Wily no Inbou onward to match the original games.
• Whenever he wrote about the Mega Man series, Ikehara made sure to play the games and check the strategy guides. According to comments at the end of the manga tankōbons, he is not good at the games themselves, and sometimes his own son would complete them before he got the chance.
• In the Mega Man 3 boss character contest, Ikehara submitted a Robot Master named "Napalm Man" (different from the Robot Master of the same name in Mega Man 5), but it was not adopted.
• In 2010, when asked about possibly localizing Ikehara's classic series manga, UDON's managing editor Matt Moylan responded that he thinks it could possibly sell better than Iwamoto Yoshihiro's Rockman X series, but there's a few hurdles to overcome. For example, most of the original manga haven't been reprinted in over twenty years, and while they could scan the artwork from the original books, that would require finding copies in good enough condition to scan, unlike Hitoshi Ariga's Mega Man Megamix and Iwamoto's Rockman X manga. Which have both been reprinted in recent years and are readily available to scan.

External links

• Shigeto Ikehara's profile in the webcomic Monsieur Akashi