Kiriko Nananan
Kiriko Nananan 魚喃キリコ | |
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Born | Strawberry Shortcakes | December 14, 1972
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Style
Kiriko Nananan says she is obsessed with seeing everything in-between the lines. She uses the spaces in the panels/the backgrounds, as characters to suggest feelings such as hope or emptiness. It is for this reason that, unlike most manga artists, she will not have assistants do the details for her, since the little details play an important role in her stories. She draws each panel so that it can be isolated, like a picture on a poster or T-shirt, rather than drawing/thinking of her manga as a series of boxes. When she draws each panel, she says she sometimes will take even four hours on just one, repeating the same picture dozens of times.[1]
Nananan says her stories and characters are only partially fictional, and believe they are all true-to-life. She bases the way the characters think on how she thinks, then links everything together with fictional events. She feels she can't have writing assistants either since she is the only one who can tell her stories.[1]
Acting Credits
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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2006 | Strawberry Shortcakes | Toko Iwase | Writing credits along with Kyoko Inukai | [2] |
Works
- Water - short stories / Magazine House, 1996 / ISBN 4-8387-1006-2
- ISBN 4-8387-0896-3
- Itaitashii Love (痛々しいラヴ ) - short stories / Magazine House, 1997 / ISBN 4-8387-0937-4
- Haruchin (ハルチン) - one-page gag serial / Magazine House, 1998 / ISBN 4-8387-0967-6
- Kabocha to Mayonnaise (aka Pumpkin and Mayonnaise, aka Everyday) (南瓜とマヨネーズ ) - short stories / ISBN 4-7966-1634-9
- ISBN 4-396-76292-5
- Tanpenshû (短編集 ) - short stories / Asuka Shinsha, 2003 / ISBN 4-87031-540-8
Film adaptations
- 2001: Blue (after Blue, 1997)
- 2006: Strawberry Shortcakes, 2002)
- 2017: Pumpkin and Mayonnaise (after Kabocha to Mayonnaise, 1999)
Notes
- ^ a b c EESI. "[info] Entretien avec Kiriko Nananan". eesi.eu.
- ^ Yazaki, Hitoshi (2007-07-19), Strawberry Shortcakes (Drama), Comstock, S.S.M., Tokyo FM Broadcasting Co., retrieved 2022-01-08
External links
- Kiriko Nananan at Anime News Network's encyclopedia