Riichiro Inagaki

Riichiro Inagaki
稲垣 理一郎
Born (1976-06-20) June 20, 1976
Tokyo, Japan
Area(s)Manga writer
Notable works
AwardsShogakukan Manga Award (2019)
Spouse(s)Orie Kimoto
Children3
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Riichiro Inagaki (Japanese: 稲垣 理一郎, Hepburn: Inagaki Riichirō, born June 20, 1976) is a Japanese manga writer from Tokyo. He started his career in 2001 publishing works for Shogakukan's magazine Big Comic Spirits. After three one-shots, he moved to Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump, in which he started the work he is best known for, Eyeshield 21. In collaboration with the artist Yusuke Murata, Eyeshield 21 was serialized between July 2002 and June 2009 in Weekly Shōnen Jump. Between 2010 and 2015, Inagaki collaborated with several artists, including Bonjae, Katsunori Matsui, and Ryoichi Ikegami, and published one-shots in different magazines. He started a new series titled Dr. Stone in Weekly Shōnen Jump in 2017, in collaboration with Boichi. He has 3 children with Orie Kimoto.