Editing Riyoko Ikeda

{{short description|Japanese manga artist and singer (born in 1947)}}
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| caption       = Riyoko Ikeda at 2008 Taipei International Book Exhibition
| birth_date    = {{Birth date and age|1947|12|18}}
| birth_place   = [[Osaka]], [[Japan]]
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| nationality   = Japanese
| area          = Writer, Penciller, Inker
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| notable works = ''[[The Rose of Versailles]]''<br>''[[Dear Brother]]''
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{{Nihongo|'''Riyoko Ikeda'''|池田 理代子|Ikeda Riyoko|born December 18, 1947}} is a Japanese [[mangaka|manga artist]] and singer. She is included in the [[Year 24 Group]] by some critics, journalists, and academics, although her inclusion has been debated due to a focus more on epic stories than the internal psychology of those mangaka.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Thorn |first=Rachel |author-link=Rachel Thorn |year=2005 |title=A History of Manga |journal=Animerica: Anime & Manga Monthly |volume=4 |issue=2,4, & 6 |url=http://www.matt-thorn.com/mangagaku/history.html |access-date=January 2, 2008 |archive-date=April 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130415042305/http://www.matt-thorn.com/mangagaku/history.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> She was one of the most popular Japanese comic artists in the 1970s, being best known for ''[[The Rose of Versailles]]''.

== 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>

== Career ==
Ikeda began publishing manga in the magazine ''Kashihonya'' while studying philosophy.<ref name="lambiek">{{cite web |title=Riyoko Ikeda |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/i/ikeda_riyoko.htm |website=Lambiek Comiclopedia |access-date=March 24, 2021 |archive-date=March 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320054440/https://www.lambiek.net/artists/i/ikeda_riyoko.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> She debuted in 1967 with ''Bara Yashiki no Shōjo''.<ref name="lambiek" />

Ikeda has written and illustrated many [[shōjo manga]], many of which are based on [[history|historical]] events, such as the [[French Revolution]] or the [[Russian Revolution of 1917|Russian Revolution]]. Her use of foreign settings and androgynous themes made ''[[The Rose of Versailles]]'' and ''[[Orpheus no Mado]]'' enormous successes.<ref>{{Cite book |first=Halldór |last=Stefánsson |year=1994 |chapter=Foreign myths and sagas in Japan: the academics and the cartoonists |title=Beyond Boundaries: Understanding, Translation and Anthropological Discourse|pages=88| editor-first=Gísli |editor-last=Pálsson |publisher=Berg Publishers |isbn=1-85973-021-3}}</ref>

Her most famous manga is ''[[The Rose of Versailles]]'', also known as ''Lady Oscar'' in Europe. This manga, loosely based on the [[French Revolution]], has been made into several [[Takarazuka Revue|Takarazuka]] [[musical theater|musical]]s, an [[anime]] series, and a [[Lady Oscar (film)|live-action film]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-01-24 |title=Interview: Riyoko Ikeda Reflects on Gender Inequality in Her 20s and Staying True to Her Beliefs |url=https://us.oricon-group.com/news/3213/ |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=Japan Anime News powered by ORICON NEWS |language=en-US}}</ref>After ''Rose of Versailles'' concluded, Ikeda wrote articles for ''[[Asahi Shimbun]]''. In 1985 Ikeda began studying at [[Tokyo College of Music]] at which she graduated from in 1999 and began performing as an [[opera]] singer.<ref name=":02">{{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> Her voice is in the [[soprano]] range.<ref name=Animeland/> She made a comeback to the comic industry as a script writer in 1999.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://fan.sleety.org/riyokoikeda/index.php?page=about|title=Historia de Amour — Riyoko Ikeda fanlisting|access-date=August 13, 2018|archive-date=August 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813112349/http://fan.sleety.org/riyokoikeda/index.php?page=about|url-status=live}}</ref>  Her recent manga includes ''[[Der Ring des Nibelungen]]''. It is a manga version of the [[opera]] written by [[Richard Wagner]]. Recently her series [[The Rose of Versailles]] received a [[The Rose of Versailles (film)|movie adaptation]] by [[MAPPA|studio MAPPA]] which released in Japan in late January of 2025.

In 2008, she was awarded France's [[Legion of Honour|National Order of the Legion of Honour]] for her contributions to Japan's cultural awareness of France and received the medal of ''Chevalier'' from the French ambassador to Japan.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-03-12/rose-of-versailles-ikeda-receives-france-top-honor|title=Rose of Versailles' Ikeda Receives France's Top Honor|date=March 12, 2009|work=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=July 11, 2009|archive-date=June 11, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090611142544/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-03-12/rose-of-versailles-ikeda-receives-france-top-honor|url-status=live}}</ref> She was awarded the Japan Cartoonists Association Award of Excellence work [[The Window of Orpheus|Orpheus no Mado]] in 1980.<ref name=":03">{{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>

She was also a guest at the 2011 [[Angoulême International Comics Festival]].<ref name="Animeland">{{cite web|url=http://www.animeland.com/news/voir/2135/Riyoko-Ikeda-au-festival-d-Angouleme|title=Riyoko Ikeda au festival d'Angoulême|last=Fallaix|first=Olivier|date=November 17, 2010|publisher=Animeland|language=fr|access-date=October 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101120142644/http://www.animeland.com/news/voir/2135/Riyoko-Ikeda-au-festival-d-Angouleme|archive-date=November 20, 2010}}</ref> In 2010 she attended [[Romics]] in [[Rome]] and performed with Yoshitaka Murata and Giacomo Rocchetti.<ref>{{Cite web |last=ladyoscar40anni |date=2021-12-29 |title=Riyoko Ikeda a Roma nel 2010 |url=https://ladyoscar40anni.altervista.org/riyoko-ikeda-a-roma-nel-2010/ |access-date=2025-02-25 |website=La mia vita con Lady Oscar |language=it-IT}}</ref> Ikeda also worked on a three part opera by the title of Nemuro Otoko which was composed in 2021 and performed in [[Finland]].<ref>{{Citation |last=Finland |first=Music |title=Nemuru Otoko |url=https://core.musicfinland.fi/works/nemuru-otoko |access-date=2025-02-25}}</ref>

== Works ==
* ''Bara Yashiki no Shōjo'' (1967) — short story
* ''Soyo Kaze no Mary'' — short story
* ''Francesca no Shouzou'' (1969)
* ''Sokoku ni Ai o'' (1969)
* ''Freesia no Asa'' (1970)
* ''Futari Pocchi'' (1971)
* ''Ikite te Yokatta!'' (1971)
* ''Jinchouge'' (1971)
* ''Mariko'' (1971)
* ''Sakura Kyou'' (1972)
* ''[[The Rose of Versailles]]'' (1972)
* ''Shiroi Egmont'' (1973)
* ''Yureru Soushun'' (1973)
* ''Shōko no Etude'' (1974)
* ''[[Dear Brother]]'' (1974)
* ''[[Orpheus no Mado]]'' (1975)
* ''[[Claudine (manga)|Claudine]]'' (1978)
* ''Ayako'' (1980)
* ''Epitaram: A Wedding Song'' (1981)
* ''Aoi Zakuro'' (1982)
* ''Jotei Ecatherina'' (1982)
* ''[[Versailles no Bara Gaiden]]'' (1984) — extra chapters for ''The Rose of Versailles''
* ''[[Eikou no Napoleon – Eroica]]'' (1986)
* ''Glass no Yami'' (1987)
* ''Mijo Monogatari'' (1988)
* ''Kasuganotsubon - Kefuzo Kataku o'' (1989)
* ''[[Ten no Hate Made – Poland Hishi]]'' (1991) — Poland's Secret Story: To the Borders of Heaven<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ten no Hate Made - Poland Hishi (manga) - Anime News Network |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=7785 |access-date=2024-04-06 |website=www.animenewsnetwork.com |archive-date=September 20, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240920001349/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=7785 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''Shoutoku Taishi'' (1991)
* ''Fuyu no Shukusai'' (1997)
* ''Elizabeth'' (1999) — text only; art by Erika Miyamoto
* ''Niberunku no Yubiwa'' (2000) — ''Der Ring des Nibelungen''
* ''Ikeda Riyoko the Best: Ai to Tatakau Onnatachi'' (2001)
* ''Falcon no Meikishu'' (2004)
* ''Ai wa Waltz ni Nosete'' (2005)
* ''BeruBara Kids'' (2006) — ''The Rose of Versailles Kids'' (parody)
* ''Haru no Yuki'' (2006) — ''Spring Snow''
* ''[[The Legend (TV series)#Adaptations|The Legend]]'' (<!--Japanese & Hanja: 太王四神記, Rōmaji: -->Taiōshijinki<!--, Hangul: 태왕사신기, RR: Taewangsasingi-->) (2007)
* ''Taketori Monogatari'' (2014)

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.ikeda-riyoko-pro.com/ Riyoko Ikeda's Official Site]

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