Ryoichi Ikegami
Ryoichi Ikegami saw his first short comic published in the magazine Garo. This comic was noticed by Shigeru Mizuki, who took Ikegami as his assistant. He started his first series, a western trilogy, at age 24. Success came in 1973 when he took on the series ‘Aiueo Boy’, along with scenarist Kazuo Koike. Two of this series, both published by Shôgakukan, were introduced on the American market in 1987 and 1989: ‘Mai the Psychic Girl’ (with Kazuya Kudo) and ‘Crying Freeman’ (with Kazuo Koike). This first series was one of the comics that started the success of manga in America, and the second was about the war of police and Japanese gangs against the Chinese mob. Other series that Ikegami made are ‘Otoko Ozorga’ (with Tetsu Kariya), ‘Sanctuary’ (with Sho Fumimura), ‘Nobunaga’ (with Kazuya Kudo) and most recently, the erotic series ‘La Colombe Rouge’, again with Kazuo Koike.

Haruka Inui
Haruka Inui was born in the Yamaguchi prefecture. He is one of the best known present-day authors of erotic mangas. After graduating in social science, he began his career in 1981 with the SF manga ‘Parallel Ami’. In 1984, he wrote ‘Future Policeman Urashiman’ (a comic version of a famous Tatsunoko Production cartoon). He is the author of the funnyerotic serial ‘Ogenki Clinic’, a bestseller which is published by Akita Shoten since 1988. Inui is also extremely popular in Europe. He also released ‘Mistress War’ (1993), ‘The stories of Miss Q’ (1994), ‘Ranmaru XXX’ (1997) and ‘Patty, the High School Fighter of Love’ (2002).