Ippongi Bang

is a multimedia and manga artist. She has been called "one of the most well-known manga artists in America in the mid-1990s."

Life and career Ippongi was born in Yokohama City, and attended Den-En Chofu Hikiba High School, then Tamagawa University Dept. of Agriculture, and worked on a farm. She made her manga debut as a schoolgirl in 1983 with Bang's Campus Diary in the cult magazine Fanroad. The manga depicted semi-autobiographical details from her life, including her experiences at the agricultural college. and although she has published little professional work since 2000, she did release a book in 2008, , a volume of comics about infertility.

Works Her published works include: The Hero Kojiro 2, 3 volumes (Ennix Manga) All Around Ippongi Bang, photo collection and video (MOVIC) Hong Kong Video Castle, 3 volumes (Shogakukan; Planning, Production and Publishing by Yuuki Hiroshi and Co.) Manga Empress of All the Asias: The Dynamic Ippongi Bang CD-ROM art and cosplay photo collection CD-ROM (Gainax) Dark Tales of Daily Horror (変さまの日常暗黒綺譚) originally published as a 40 page omnibus on Jitsuwa Kyōfu Comic

She has appeared in several films and direct-to-video adult movies, including the ExorSister series directed by Takao Nakano where she played Maria Cruel, the ExorSister: Chō-yōma densetsu Uratsuki-dōji: Makai gakuen-hen (1994) (aka. ExorSister 1) Chō-yōma densetsu Uratsuki-dōji: Hakui jigoku-hen (1994) (aka. ExorSister 2) Chō-yōma densetsu Uratsuki-dōji: Joyō Senmenki-hen (1994) (aka. ExorSister 3) Chō-yōma densetsu Uratsuki-dōji: Daiishin fukkatsu-hen (1994) (aka. ExorSister 4) Ballistic Kiss (1998) (殺殺人、跳跳舞)