is a Japanese manga artist. Rikdo is a graduate of

Kyushu Sangyo University was founded in 1960 in Fukuoka City, and currently has twenty departments and six graduate schools. It is a private university. Undergraduate Faculties and departments *Faculty of Economics **Department of Economics *Faculty of Commerce **Depar ...

and lives in

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. His most popular work is ''

Excel Saga is a manga series written and illustrated by Kōshi Rikudō. It was serialized in '' Young King OURs'' from 1996 to 2011, and its individual chapters were collected and published in 27 ''tankōbon'' volumes by Shōnen Gahōsha. The series f ...

'', a manga which he describes as a work dealing with the everyday aspects of living in Japan. The

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version of ''Excel Saga'' contains stories from the first five volumes of the manga, and even features Rikdo as a character (voiced by

Wataru Takagi is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Chiba Prefecture. He is affiliated with Arts Vision. He is best known for his roles in ''Detective Conan'' (as Genta Kojima and Wataru Takagi), '' After War Gundam X'' (as Garrod Ran), '' Slayers Try' ...

History

Rikudō started out by drawing adult doujinshi in 1990 under the circle name Genkotsuten, and Gebokudou. He also supervises the Rokudoukan circle, that was recently renamed Rikudou Juku. His most popular work, Excel Saga, was based on a doujinshi that he drew for comic market called Municipal Force Daitenzin, in 1994. To this day Rikudō continues to participate in doujinshi works from time to time. In 1996 he made his major debut with Excel Saga, which was published by Young King OUR's, and lasted for 27 volumes, or until 2011.

Works

Assistants

* Satou Shouji * Ikami Hajime

References

External links

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六道館

六道神士 (@rikudou_koushi) - Twitter
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rikudo, Koshi Manga artists from Fukuoka Prefecture 1970 births Living people Excel Saga People from Dazaifu, Fukuoka