Hello, I'm Rika, an illustrator who lives in Japan. I mainly work on illustration production and animation production. Thank you for stopping by!
What's NEW
2024/02/29
Appeared at Wacom Japan's WCCC Creative Collaboration Webinar. Thank you to everyone who participated!
2023/11/02
An interview article about MIFA (Annecy International Film Festival) was published in the CG World online version.
https://cgworld.jp/special-feature/mifa.html
Rika Asakawa illustrator/animation artist
Graduated from Sophia University. She began taking on design and illustration work as a student and is currently working in a wide range of fields including animation, illustration, and comics. Selected as an Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund member in 2021. In the same year, she was selected as a semi-finalist in an illustration contest sponsored by the United Nations, and has exhibited worldwide. At the AITFF (Aichi International Women's Film Festival), the independent production ``The Edge of Memory'' was nominated in the anime category.
She exhibited at Annecy International Animation Festival in 2022 and 2023.
Awards and Exhibit history
2018
Tokushima Prefecture Environmental Manga Contest Encouragement Award
2018
Kodansha Morning Expectation Award
2019
Shogakukan Monthly Spirits Encouragement Award
2021
United Nations Women's Secretariat "Generation Equality: Picture It!"
Illustration Competition Semi-finalist (Belgium)
2021
Aichi International Women's Film Festival
"The Edge of the Memory" Animation Category Nomination
2021
Obunsha “Future Academic Participation Planning Contest”
Special Award
2022
Tokyo Animation Pitch Grand Prix Excellence Award
2022,2023
Exhibited at the Annecy International Animation Festival (France)
Works
2016
"Work Museum" Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. / Illustration（partial）
2016
"Bullying was Strategy to Survival ? The Principle of the Mysterious Behavior of Living Creatures Interpreted by Evolutionary Biology" Shuwa System Co., Ltd. / Illustration（all）
2019
"Society Evolves with Human Emotions - Changing Society with Human Behavior Evolution and Behavioral Design" Forest Publishing,Co.,Ltd. / Illustration（all）
2019-
In charge of designing proposals for a major toy company
2020
Japan Science and Technology Agency Learning Comic Production Project
"The Behind the Popular" and "The Truth" (All 2 titles)
2021
Language learning materials “Vocabang!” /Illustration(partial)
2021
Adobe Japan's official SNS production/Animation
2021
Self-produced animation “The Edge of Memory” begins distribution on various paid distribution services
2022
“Sanrio English Master” Sanrio Inc./ Illustration(partial)
2023
"Mimosa"Benesse Mirai-ka Animation Production/ Animation
2023
“Evolutionary Psychology of Despair” Shueisha/Illustration (all)
List of Publications
2019.3.25
Courier International (France)
2021.5.29
Mainichi Shimbun evening edition
2021.5.31
Chunichi Shimbun evening edition front page
2021.5.31
2021.11.14
Asahi High School Newspaper
2022.1.3
Yomiuri Junior and Senior High School Newspaper
2023.9.13
