Shigeto Ikehara

Hometown: Nyuzen Toyama Prefecture Japan Ikehara is a manga artist. In junior high school he was moved by Osamu Tezukas Astro Boy and started drawing manga. After joining Shnen Gahsha where he worked as a sales representative for two months he joined Tezuka Productions in 1970 at a friends invitation and worked as an assistant to Osamu Tezuka for a year and a half. Later at Tezuka Productions he was also involved in animation production as an assistant storyboard artist for Triton of the Sea and Marvelous Melmo. At that time he learned how to draw storyboards from Yoshiyuki Tomino. In the early 1970s he joined Hiromi Productions a group of planners established by Tezukas assistants and other related people and was involved in the planning of TV anime such as Miracle Girl Limitchan and Majokko Meguchan. Since then he has written for such magazines as Bken and Comic BomBom. He mainly draws manga adaptations of TV shows such as robot anime and video game related works. The mascot bomb character of Comic BomBom was designed by him.