Junichi Sugamoto

Junichi Sugamoto studied under Kazuo Koike to learn how to write original scripts for gekiga, and made his debut under the pen name Akira Ikeda. After serving as a staff member at the Kazuo Koike Gekiga Village School and as an instructor for the NHK Comic Course, he became an instructor in the Manga and Comic Professional Training Program at Yoyogi Animation College.

He published a number of works for Hibari Shobou under the pen name Shintarou Gotou.