Mikio Ikemoto Biography, Height, Age, Wife & Net Worth 2023

Who is Mikio Ikemoto?

Mikio Ikemoto is a famous and well-known Japanese manga artist. He is a talented man with a talent for art and drawing his own stickers. From the period of 1999 to 2014 he worked as a chief assistant for Masashi Kishimoto’s manga series Naruto. Mikio was also chosen for the sequel series Boruto: Naruto Next Generations. Currently, Mikio Ikemoto’s Net Worth is around $5 million.

Early Life

Mikio Ikemoto was born on 13^th January 1977. He is not much active on his social accounts. Mikio was a private person and doesn’t share his details publicly. He is 45 years old and has Japanese nationality. Mikio doesn’t share any information about his place of birth or his parent’s name. There is not any update about his educational qualification.

Personal Life: Wife, Girlfriend, Dating, Divorce, Kids

Mikio Ikemoto has not updated about his current relationship and married life. He is a private person and does not give any hint or clue about his past and present relationship status. There is no information about Mikio that he is married or not and also about his children.

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Age, Height, and Weight

Currently, Mikio is 46 years old. Therefore, there is not any update about his height and weight.

Professional Life

At an early age, Mikio started making a variety of stickers and creating new ideas. Mikio is a big fan of Bikkuriman stickers. Bikkuriman stickers are much more expensive that’s why Mikio started making his own stickers. For the manga magazine, he started making the first one-shot manga named Cosmos. Then he won a Tenkaichi Manga Award for that first one-shot manga.

The one-shot manga was also later published in the magazine and gained a small cult. Then the Cosmos in parts started appearing in monthly plasma. On April 26, 1999, the sequel one-shot was published on Weekly Shonen Jump.

Mikio Ikemoto started taking interest in his fellow artist. Manashi Kishimoto. Ikemoto got the work proposal from Shueisha. He works as an assistant on a comedy series and moving to Tokyo. When Kishimoto heard that he felt Mikio waste his time in this type of art. Then he asked his editor of Naruto, Kosuke Yahagi, to recruit Ikemoto as an assistant. Mikio accepted the offer as he is grateful that Naruto was what he wanted to work on. Ikemoto was Kishimoto’s youngest assistant in the early days of making Naruto.

In making Naruto, Mikio’s responsibilities included drawing crowds and background pictures that add white speed lines. In his free time, he also designs new characters. Kishimoto requested Ikemoto to design more characters and draw clones created by Naruto Uzumaki. In 2014, Shueisha asked Kishimoto to start a sequel but he rejected the idea. Kishimoto said to Ikemoto to draw based on his experience and advised him to not spoil his art style and make his own. Ikemoto is a shining and bright artist who made every design unique. Many of his fans are inspired by his art style. Mikio gives his best in the making of manga. Ikemoto gives illustrations for the Boruto light novels. In 2017, the manga had one million copies in print. With this inspiration Studio Pierrot produced an anime series.

Ikemoto is inspired by the art of Kinnikuman. He admitted that he is bad at drawing comedy. He feels honored to create the art of Boruto. Boruto contains 20 per page, which was among the popular edition of Ikemoto. He faces monthly serialization challenges. Boruto surpasses 40 pages in one week and creates thumbnails in one week. The rest of the 20 days to produce the pages and coloring and giving the last touches. Mikio uses ink to finish the drawing. He uses Copic markers for the colored pages same as Kishimoto did with Naruto.

The director of Boruto director said he was inspired by ikemoto’s style of art. He found ikemoto’s style more realistic than Kishimoto’s due to his character design. The director also pointed out the way Momoshiki Otsutsuki’s new appearance surprised him in a different way from the Boruto Movie. The author of manga also praises the style and artwork of Ikemoto. Mikio Ikemoto was become famous among his fans because of his artwork and giving sequel to Boruto. He is most famous among his kids’ fans because of his art of designing unique characters. Boruto: Naruto Next Generation is available in different volumes.

• On May 4^th, 2017 Boruto: Naruto Next Generation, Vol.1 is being published.
• On September 21^st, 2017 Boruto: Naruto Next Generation, Vol.2 is being published.
• On April 4^th, 2018 Boruto: Naruto Next Generation, Vol.3 is being published.
• On September 20^th, 2018 Boruto: Naruto Next Generation, Vol.4 is being published.
• On March 21^st, 2019 Boruto: Naruto Next Generation, Vol.5 is being published.
• On June 27^th, 2019 Boruto: Naruto Next Generation, Vol.6 is being published.
• On November 28^th, 2019 Boruto: Naruto Next Generation, Vol.7 is being published.
• On April 30^th, 2020 Boruto: Naruto Next Generation, Vol.8 is being published.
• On September 3^rd, 2020 Boruto: Naruto Next Generation, Vol.9 is being published.
• On April 1^st, 2021 Boruto: Naruto Next Generation, Vol.10 is being published.
• On May 27^th, 2021 Boruto: Naruto Next Generation, Vol.11 is being published.
• Boruto – Naruto the next Generation 1.
• Boruto – Naruto the next Generation 2.
• Boruto – Naruto the next Generation 3.
• Boruto – Naruto the next Generation 4.
• Boruto – Naruto the next Generation 5.

Social Media Links

Mikio Ikemoto is not socially much active with his fans. He has an Instagram account named Mikio. Ikemoto with 497 followers. Ikemoto adds his close friends and family members to his account.

He is also having a Twitter account named @mikioikemoto with 76 followers. He uploaded his artwork on his social media accounts, inspiring artists. Ikemoto is a private personality he doesn’t share any of his information on his accounts.

Mikio Ikemoto Net worth 2023 / Mikio Ikemoto Salary / Income

Mikio Ikemoto is a successful and famous artist. He got his fame from his art and unique ideas that inspired the young generation. The source of his income is mainly his working in Buroto. He designed characters in the sequel that become popular. Mikio Ikemoto’s combined Net Worth is $5 million approx.