"[3] Ippongi was born in Yokohama City, and attended Den-En Chofu Hikiba High School, then Tamagawa University Dept.
[4] She made her manga debut as a schoolgirl in 1983 with Bang's Campus Diary in the cult magazine Fanroad.
[3] As she progressed in her career, she became known as a flamboyant personality who was involved in bikini modeling, cosplay and dressing as manga characters such as Rumiko Takahashi's Lum.
[3] Along with several friends, she started up a manga collective called "Studio Do-Do" and several of their works were translated and published in the United States in the 1990s by Antarctic Press.
After Antarctic Press stopped publishing manga in the mid-1990s, Ippongi's works such as Virtual Bang, Doctor!