Tomoko Ninomiya

Tomoko Ninomiya (Jap.二ノ宮 知子, Ninomiya Tomoko, born May 25, 1969 in Minano, Saitama, Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist.

Biography

Her father was manager of a metal processing company. Ninomiyas first publication as a professional illustrator was the short story London Doubt Boys, published in 1989.

From 1991 to 1994, she drew on trend no Joo Miho for the manga magazine Young Rose, which is aimed at an adult female audience and thus focuses on Ladies' Comics. Trend no Joo Miho comprises about 1750 pages and was published in ten anthologies. The following work, Tensai Family Company, appeared from 1994 to 2001 in about 2,000 pages in the manga magazine Kimi to Boku and then in eleven anthologies Sony Magazines. Tensai Family Company is about a seventeen year old whose dream is to study at Harvard and become a successful businessman. Completely different ideas about life have the new husband of his mother and his son who live henceforth with him and his mother.

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

The breakthrough came with the manga series Nodame Cantabile over the highly talented in playing the piano music student Shinichi Chiaki, whose dream is to become a composer. First on his nerves going Noda, also studied music and in love with him. The Ladies' comic was published from July 2001 to October 2009 in Kiss magazine and comprises 136 chapters, which were published in the Kodansha publishing house in 23 anthologies. Nodame Cantabile Opera Hen Encore With 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 series. Nodame Cantabile, which was implemented as a drama with actors than three anime television series and two feature films, is commercially very successful in Japan. The first sixteen anthologies sold to February 2007, over eighteen million times. Nodame Cantabile For Ninomiya was awarded the 2004 Kodansha Manga Award and was twice (2005 and 2006), nominated for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize -.

On June 25, 2011 her next manga 87Clockers launched in the first issue of the new manga magazine Jump X of Shueisha Publishing House.

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

Works

• London Doubt Boys ( Londonダウト·ボーイズ, London Dauto Bōizu ), 1989
• Trend no Joo 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 Kampani ), 1994-2001
• Heisei yopparai Kenkyujo (平成 よっぱらい 研究所), 1995-1996
• Out, 1999
• Nomi ni iko 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 オペラ 編), 2009-2010
• 87Clockers (エイティ セブン ク ロッカーズ, Eitisebun Kurokkāzu ), since 2011