Editing Riyoko Ikeda (section)

== Education ==
Ikeda was a student at the [[University of Tsukuba|Tokyo University of Education]] (now known as [[Tsukuba University]]) as a [[philosophy]] major.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=SHUEISHA MANGA-ART HERITAGE（集英社マンガアートヘリテージ） |url=https://mangaart.jp/ |access-date=2025-02-25 |website=mangaart.jp}}</ref> Influenced by the [[New Left in Japan|Japanese New Left]] and [[1968–1969 Japanese university protests|student protest]] movements in the late 1960s, she became a member of the [[Democratic Youth League of Japan]], the youth wing of the [[Japanese Communist Party]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Anan|first1=Nobuko|title=''The Rose of Versailles'': Women and Revolution in Girls' Manga and the Socialist Movement in Japan|journal=[[The Journal of Popular Culture]]|date=February 2014|volume=47|issue=1|pages=41–63|doi=10.1111/jpcu.12107|url=https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/12324/7/12324.pdf}}</ref> In her sixth year of college, she started serializing her most famous manga, ''[[The Rose of Versailles]]'', and subsequently dropped out after seven years of college due to work demands from serialization.<ref>{{Cite interview |last=Ikeda |first=Riyoko |interviewer-last=Jones |interviewer-first=C Bryan |date=September 2023 |title=Artistic Revolution |magazine=INTOUCH Magazine |publisher=Tokyo American Club |pages=20–21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=October 23, 1983|title=Japanese readers lap up comic books|work=[[Reuters]]|agency=[[Red Deer Advocate]]|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77896980/reuters-riyoko-ikeda-manga/|access-date=May 18, 2021|archive-date=March 31, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331093911/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77896980/reuters-riyoko-ikeda-manga/|url-status=live}}</ref>