Tomoko Ninomiya

Tomoko Ninomiya ( Japanese 二 ノ 宮 知 子 , Ninomiya Tomoko ; born May 25, 1969 in Minano , Saitama , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist .

biography

Her father was the managing director of a metal processing company. Ninomiya's first publication as a professional illustrator was the short story London Doubt Boys , which appeared in 1989.

From 1991 to 1994 she drew on Trend no Joō Miho for the manga magazine Young Rose , which is aimed at an adult, female readership and thus focuses on ladies' comics . Trend no Joō Miho comprises about 1750 pages and was also published in ten edited volumes. The following work, Tensai Family Company , appeared from 1994 to 2001 in approximately 2,000 pages in the manga magazine Kimi to Boku and then in eleven edited volumes by Sony Magazines . Tensai Family Company is about a seventeen year old whose dream is to study at Harvard and become a successful businessman. The new husband has completely different ideas about life for his mother and his son, who from now on live with him and his mother.

After a few shorter comic series, she created Green from 1999 to 2001 for the manga magazine Kiss , which is also primarily aimed at adult women.

The breakthrough came with the manga series Nodame Cantabile about Shinichi Chiaki, a music student who is highly gifted in piano and whose dream is to become a composer. At first, Noda, who is also studying music and is in love with him, gets on his nerves. The ladies' comic was published in Kiss magazine from July 2001 to October 2009 and comprises 136 chapters, which were also published in 23 anthologies by the Kōdansha publishing house. With Nodame Cantabile Encore Opera Hen , the manga received a sequel, which appeared in the same magazine from December 2009 to September 2010 and was summarized in the 24th and 25th anthology of the series. Nodame Cantabile , which as a drama with actors, three anime was implemented -Fernsehserien and two feature films, is commercially very successful in Japan. The first sixteen anthologies had sold over eighteen million copies by February 2007. Ninomiya received the Kodansha Manga Prize for Nodame Cantabile in 2004 and was nominated twice (2005 and 2006) for the Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize.

On June 25, 2011, her next manga, 87Clockers, started in the first issue of the new manga magazine Jump X from Shūeisha- Verlag. The manga was published in this magazine until December 2014 and then moved to Young Jump from the same publisher, where it is expected to end on June 30, 2016.

Her work has been translated into Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, Italian and Thai, among others.

Works

• London Doubt Boys (London ダ ウ ト ・ ボ ー イ ズ , London Dauto Bōizu ), 1989
• Trend no Joō Miho ( ト レ ン ド の 女王 ミ ホ , Torendo ~ ), 1991–1995
• Tensai Family Company ( 天才 フ ァ ミ リ ー ・ カ ン パ ニ ー , Tensai Famirī Kampanī ), 1994-2001
• Heisei Yopparai Kenkyūjo ( 平 成 よ っ ぱ ら い 研究所 ), 1995–1996
• Out , 1999
• Nomi ni Ikō ze !! ( 飲 み に 行 こ う ぜ !! ), 1999
• Green , 1999-2001
• Nodame Cantabile (の だ め カ ン タ ー ビ レ ), 2001–2009
• Nodame Cantabile: Encore Opera Hen ( の だ め カ ン タ ー ビ レ ア ン コ ー ル ル オ ペ ラ 編 ), 2009–2010
• 87Clockers ( エ イ テ ィ セ ブ ン ク ロ ッ カ ー ズ , Eitisebun Kurokkāzu ), 2011–2016

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)

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1. ↑ mantanweb.mainichi.co.jp ( Memento from April 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Brief overview at Jump X ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Japanese) 
3. ↑ Nodame Cantabile's Tomoko Ninomiya Ends 87 Clockers Manga in June. Anime News Network, May 25, 2016 (English).