Nao Ikeda begun work as a character designer for Chunsoft. She then worked on a number of Square Enix titles however left Square Enix in 2010.1 Ikeda became a freelance character designer by joining Ravenala Studio.
Several Square Enix employees have reportedly parted ways with the Japanese developer after Final Fantasy XIII, among them are some veteran Square personnel including Toshihiro Tsuchida (who directed Front Mission), Takashi Ohkuma (who apparently moved to an island in Okinawa to blog about sunsets), composer Masashi Hamauzu (left to form Monomusik, a new development studio), character art designer Nao Ikeda (who started designing characters for The Legend of Mana), among others.
Nao Ikeda's sub-site on Ravenala Studio
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