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Ryō Ikuemi

Birth : 1964-10-02, Nayoro, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan

History

Ryō Ikuemi (いくえみ綾, Ikuemi Ryō, October 2, 1964) is a Japanese manga artist. She was born in Nayoro, Hokkaido Prefecture, and lives in Sapporo, in the same prefecture. She graduated from Tokai University Fourth High School. She has blood type A. She writes mainly shōjo manga for Margaret, where she debuted in 1979 at age 15 with Maggie. In 2000, she won the 46th Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo for Barairo no Ashita, and in 2009 the 33rd Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for Kiyoku Yawaku. In 2013 her work Kiyoku Yawaku (Beyond the Memories) was adapted as a live-action movie. In 2017 Anata no Koto wa Sore Hodo (I Love You Just a Little Bit ) was adapted as a TV drama.

Movies

Principal: Am I In a Love Story?

Principal: Am I In a Love Story?

Novel

After her parents divorced, Shima Sumitomo lived with her mother. She felt uncomfortable living with her stepfather and she was unable to hang out with people at her high school. Shima Sumitomo decides to move to Hokkaido where her father lives. At her new high school in Hokkaido, she meets classmate Gen Tatebayashi and Wao Sakurai. They are the two most popular boys at her school. A principle of her school is that "Gen and Wao are for everyone." If anyone breaks the rule, that person will be ostracized. Even so, Shima Sumitomo gets closer to Gen and Wao.

Beyond the Memories

Beyond the Memories

Novel

Kanna Seto lost her childhood friend Haruta in a car accident when she was a freshman in high school. Carrying the emotional pain from that incident throughout her life, Kanna is still wounded as an adult. Kanna then meets Roku Akazawa, who also carries a painful experience from his past. When Roku was an elementary school student, a girl who was with him got into an accident and died. Because of that incident, Roku carries a heavy sense of guilt. When they meet, time, frozen since that day, begins to tick again.

Novel

Harada Kusuko is a high school girl with a secret crush on the class playboy, Mishima Takeshi.