Ryoji Minagawa

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Ryoji Minagawa (亮二皆川), born on 1964 in Tokyo, Japan was a Japanese manga artist. He was widely known in the manga community, both Japan and abroad, for his work, Spriggan (Striker in the US/Canada).

For his work, he was invited with Spriggan collaborator Hiroshi Takashige to go to a comic convention in Portugal in 1996 as a guest of honor. He worked on other manga comics before he went on to create Project ARMS with fellow manga artist, Kyoichi Nanatsuki.

Contents

1 History
2 Known Works

2.1 Manga
2.2 TV
2.3 Video games

3 Trivia
4 External links

History

Made his manga debut with the comic, HEAVEN in 1988. From 1991 to 1996, he worked with fellow artist Hiroshi Takashige in working on the 11 volumes of Spriggan (Striker in US/Canada). His work had brought him fame across North America and Europe.

After work on Spriggan was complete, he went on to do Kyo in 1996, followed by the creation of Project Arms from 1997-2002.

In 1999, he was honored by Shogakukan in the 44th Shogakukan Manga Awards in 1999 for the success of Project Arms. In 2003, he created D-Live, which was his latest manga comic to date.

Known Works

Manga

HEAVEN (1988): Original Creator

Spriggan (1991-1996) : Art

Kyo (1996): Original Creator

Project ARMS (manga: 1997-2002) : Original creator

Project ARMS (TV: 1997-2002) : Original creator

D-Live (2003): Original Creator

TV

Kiddy Grade (TV) : Eyecatch Illustration (ep 14)

Video games

Live a Live: Character Designer

Tsukiyo ni Saraba: Character Designer

Trivia

His first name is sometimes translated as Ryouji.

External links

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