Miyū Ikeda

Japan has a well-worn pipeline running from teen fashion magazines to television, and most people who enter it have disappeared by twenty-five. Miyū Ikeda did not. What interests me is the second act. She built her name in the gyaru scene, a loud and image-first corner of Japanese youth fashion where the currency is how you look and how fearless you are about it. Then she quietly became someone producers book for what she says. That transition is far harder than it sounds. Looking striking gets you into the studio; staying there means having an actual opinion and delivering it in the fifteen seconds a variety programme allows, without overreaching into something you cannot back up. Watch her and you notice the discipline: she makes her point, lands it, and stops. She is not explained by her paperwork. Born in Shizuoka in 1998 and raised in Tokyo's Kita ward, 166 cm tall, and known to most of the country by a nickname rather than her legal name. She even carries her birthday, October 30, inside her Instagram handle. For a Japanese reader that shorthand is instant recognition; for everyone else it is the clearest measure of the distance she has covered. When the nickname travels further than the name on the family register, the career has already made its argument for you.

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Name (English)

Miyū Ikeda

Name (Japanese)

池田美優

Reading

いけだ みゆう

Born

October 30, 1998 (age 28)

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Height

166 cm

Weight

49 kg

Occupation

fashion model

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Tiger

Blood type

A

Measurements

77 / 62 / 87

Agency

PANORAMA

High school

N High School

Debut

2013

Spouse

Shimon Ohkura

Works summary

Appearances

75 (2015–2026)

By year (titles with a known year)

2015: 5, 2016: 2, 2017: 3, 2018: 3, 2019: 5, 2020: 5, 2021: 15, 2022: 4, 2023: 5, 2024: 5, 2025: 9, 2026: 1, year unknown: 13

Debut work

ハライチ・澤部&みちょぱの大正生まれだけど質問ある?

Filmography / notable works

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/michopa1030/
• Xhttps://x.com/michopaaaaa
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B1%A0%E7%94%B0%E7%BE%8E%E5%84%AA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17685954

Tags

• Tokyo
• fashion model

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. Works and profile fields sourced from Wikipedia reflect content as of 2026-08-26. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.