Ryoji Minagawa
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Ryoji Minagawa (皆川 亮二 Minagawa Ryoji?) (born on July 5, 1964 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist. He is 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 story writer 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.
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[edit] History
Minagawa 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. 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!!. On December 2006, he had done work on a manga named S.O.L., which is his latest manga up today.
[edit] Known Works
[edit] 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!! (2003-2006): Original Creator
S.O.L. (2006): Original Creator
Intruder: Original Creator
[edit] TV
Kiddy Grade (TV) : Eyecatch Illustration (ep 14)
[edit] Video games
Critical Blow (Playstation): Character Designer
Genei Tougi: Shadow Struggle (Playstation): Character Designer
Live a Live (SNES): Character Designer
Project ARMS (Playstation 2): Original Creator
Spriggan: Lunar Verse (Playstation): Original Creator
Tekken 5 (Playstation 2): Marshall Law Character Designer
Tsukiyo ni Saraba (Playstation 2): Character Designer
[edit] Trivia
- His first name is sometimes translated as Ryouji.
- He was a guest mangaka in drawing for Konami when he illustrated Liquid Snake and his fellow renegade FOXHOUND comrades in the Metal Gear Solid Premium artbook.
