Jirô taniguchi manga
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A visit to the Louvre inspired him for the graphic novel 'Les Gardiens du Louvre' (Futuropolis, 2014).
In 2000, an asteroid was named after the artist. Request to have it removed.
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"Bocchan" no Jidai addArt Manga, 1987 782198700000000016.95 | 6.95
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Adidas Manga Fever addStory & Art Manga, 2002 1758200205140000025.83 | 5.83
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Ao no Senshi addArt Manga, 1980 840198010140000036.43 | 6.43
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Aruku Hito addStory & Art Manga, 1990 10839199000000000047.17 | 7.17
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Benkei in New York addArt Manga, 1991 3523199100000000056.62 | 6.62
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Chichi no Koyomi addStory & Art Manga, 1994 8263199404090000068.03 | 8.03
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Chikyuu Hyoukai Jiki addStory & Art Manga, 1986 931198611250000076.48 | 6.48
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Chou Sentouken Blanca addStory & Art Manga, 1984 684198400000000087.13 | 7.13
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Enemigo addArt Manga, 1984 656198400000000096.53 | 6.53
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Furari. addStory & Art Manga, 2011 1029201101130000106.88 | 6.88
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Fuyu no Doubutsuen addStory & Art Manga, 2005 2491200500000000117.49 | 7.49
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Garouden addArt Manga, 1989 1311198902000000126.35 | 6.35
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Hare Yuku Sora addStory & Art Manga, 2005 1631200512190000137.66 | 7.66
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Haruka na Machi e addStory & Art Manga, 1998 23627199804100000147.95 | 7.95
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Hotel Harbour View addArt Manga, 1985 2447198500000000156.18 | 6.18
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Icaro addArt Manga, 1996 2431199600000000166.07 | 6.07
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Inu wo Kau addStory & Art Manga, 1991 2638199100000000177.27 | 7.27
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Japon addStory & Art Manga, 2005 1532200512200000186.58 | 6.58
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Jikenya Kagyou addArt Manga, 1979 398197912000000190.00 | N/A
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K addArt Manga, 1988 1130198805000000206.98 | 6.98
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Kami no Inu addStory & Art Manga, 1995 380199507100000210.00 | N/A
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Kamigami no Itadaki addArt Manga, 2000 18707200002010000228.25 | 8.25
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Keyaki no Ki addArt Manga, 1993 1470199304240000237.48 | 7.48
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Kodoku no Gourmet addArt Manga, 1994 4531199406000000247.47 | 7.47
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Kouya yori addStory & Art Manga, 1977 17197710200000250.00 | N/A
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Mahou no Yama addStory & Art Manga, 2005 951200512010000266.43 | 6.43
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Ryouken Tantei addArt Manga, 2011 402201103020000270.00 | N/A
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Samurai Non Grata addArt Manga, 1990 25199006140000280.00 | N/A
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Sanpo Mono addArt Manga, 2003 1026200300000000296.64 | 6.64
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Sennen no Tsubasa, Hyakunen no Yume: les Gardiens du Louvre addStory & Art Manga, 2014 1593201409200000307.03 | 7.03
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Sensei no Kaban addArt Manga, 2008 1195200811040000317.43 | 7.43
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Seton addArt Manga, 2005 657200500000000327.32 | 7.32
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Shin Jikenya Kagyou addArt Manga, 1982 222198200000000330.00 | N/A
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Sousakusha addStory & Art Manga, 1999 1978199904240000347.18 | 7.18
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Ten no Taka addStory & Art Manga, 2002 1176200209000000357.06 | 7.06
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Tomoji addArt Manga, 2012 782201200000000366.41 | 6.41
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Toudo no Tabibito addStory & Art Manga, 1994 1681199403280000377.23 | 7.23
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Tsuki no Yoru addStory & Art One-shot, 1993 729199300000000386.17 | 6.17
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Yagyuu Hichou: Kaze no Shou addArt Manga, 1992 1657199202250000396.94 | 6.94
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It is probably for that reason that Sekikawa and Taniguchi do not use the term “gensaku” (script) but “kyōsaku” (co-creation). Taniguchi is just one of many artists during this time that appeared as a new face among the postwar generation who drew seinen (young male) gekiga.
When you look at works like his debut piece “Song of the Bird Never Sung” (“Koe ni narakatta tori no uta”, 1970), or “Parched Room” (“Kareta heya”, 1971), both of which were put on display at a Taniguchi Jirō art exhibition, you can see his distinctive pictorial style that could express such great detail, as seen in the emphasis he put on the distortions in the folds and wrinkles in clothes and such.
It’s only after I drew that series that my skills henceforth developed in how I staged characters and just overall changes in my technique, that all would allow me to produce The Walking Man.
(Quoted in Tim Lehmann’s Manga Masters: Twelve Japanese Craftsmen, [Manga masutā: 12nin no Nihon no manga shokunin tachi, published in English by Harper Design as Manga: Masters of the Art], Bijutsu Shuppan Sha, 2005, p.
198)
We can roughly call the period from Taniguchi’s debut in 1970 through the mid-1980s as the “Taniguchi Jirō Gekiga Years”. Jiro Taniguchi passed away on 11 February 2017, at the age of 69.
'Icaro'.
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He said he thought what he actually told Sekikawa was that Taniguchi’s works often show a great love of animals and his plots were calm and gentle, so “if we have him pair up with a person who really knows storytelling, then [Taniguchi] will surely get better.” Depending on how you read it, it can sound like they thought that if they tried to make “Action Gekiga” [with Taniguchi], it might really sell.Killer Dog! (Tobe!! Such illustrations are based on his goal to depict scenery that would tell the story, which was all quite rare in the Japanese manga scene. The publisher apparently tried to use this paperback to make readers acknowledge the genre of “Action Gekiga”.
By the way, in the greater context of Taniguchi’s works during this period, we see the appearance of mountains, with his finely detailed drawing style that certainly shows the influence of BD and Moebius.
This period of time is when Taniguchi and Sekikawa were both in their late 20s.
In the end, Taniguchi and Sekikawa gained commercial value as authors of what would become the “Action Gekiga” genre. From very early on, he developed a taste for BD [bandes dessinées, French and Belgian comics], and that side of him can be seen in the early fermentation of such a revolutionary style and attitude of manga expression, and a drawing style previously unseen in Japan.
Then, it came to describe (3) the period from the late 1960s through the 1970s - a period during which, while gekiga was becoming the flagship for the anti-Tezuka Osamu style of manga in Weekly Shōnen Magazine, there was also a shift in manga expression towards a more excessive style called “seinen gekiga”, which was often used to describe the postwar generation of artists like Miyaya Kazuhiko and others.
Dutch-language version.
Born in Tottori, Jiro Taniguchi began to work as assistant of the mangaka Kyota Ishikawa. 2-5 of a supplemental insert to Shūeisha's debutante volume collecting The Summit of the Gods.
-Jon Holt & Teppei Fukuda
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The lineage of Taniguchi Jirō’s works can be divided into two main parts, with his series The Times of Botchan (“Bōtchan” no jidai, 1987-1996) as a middle boundary zone.
However, what Fujiwara actually said may have been quite different. I believe that he had the amazing good luck to have met and have been teamed up with Sekikawa in the early phase of his career.
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Written byNatsume Fusanosuke
Posted January 19, 2023
TopicsJiro Taniguchi, Kaiji Kawaguchi, Katsuhiro Otomo, Kazuhiko Miyaya, Manga, Miyaya Kazuhiko, Natsuo Sekikawa, Sanpei Shirato, tadao tsuge, Yoshiharu Tsuge, Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Taniguchi, Jiro
Given name: ジロー
Family name: 谷口Alternate names: Jirou Taniguchi
Birthday: Aug 14, 1947
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He was born in Tottori.
Died: February 11, 2017
His stories deal with universal themes as the beauty of nature, devotion to family, and/or return to childhood.
We can rather take this change as something Sekikawa learned from Taniguchi’s development.
It truly seems that the relationship the two of them had was incredibly creative and ideal in the sense that each of them kept pushing the other to raise the levels of their respective arts. This lavish edition (aizōban) is an investment in ensuring the continuance of Taniguchi’s legacy.
I believe that his experience of co-creating with Sekikawa and Marley Caribu [Karibu Mārei, one of the pen names of Old Boy writer Tsuchiya Garon], allowed him to develop his own authorial qualities.
The situation is the same with the artist Kawaguchi Kaiji [known for political and military-themed manga such as The Silent Service].
Furthermore, Sekikawa believed that this work was a big change in “their pictures and staging,” by which they attempted to “shift manga away from symbolic ways that characters were staged, even though that was one of the most important strengths of manga expression”; Taniguchi drew “landscapes that did the talking” and he “considered if they can illustrate the Meiji period with rich, three-dimensional depth by adding meaning to the places in which people live out their daily lives.” It is through the interplay between [Sekikawa’s] comics script and [Taniguchi’s] comics images—the kind of sparring that goes back and forth [between writer and artist]—that they were together able to achieve such a transformation in manga.
Soon enough, with The Summit of the Gods (based on a novel by Yumemakura Baku, serialized in Business Jump from 2000 to 2003), he reached a point where his amazing technique could allow him to shape the story construction through his powerful renderings of its snowy landscapes.
The creative combination of Taniguchi and Sekikawa began with their teaming up for the 1977 Go!
In 1985, they came with 'Kaikei Shuten' ('Hotel Harbour View').
Taniguchi Jirō and His Gekiga Years
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Natsume Fusanosuke | January 19, 2023
“Taniguchi Jirō shiron, dai-ikkai: Taniguchi Jirō to gekiga no jidai”
From The Taniguchi Jirō Collection 11: Kamigami no itadaki (Shūeisha, 2022)
Although Taniguchi Jirō passed away in 2017, his work continues to be of great interest in Japan, in Europe, and here in North America.
Taniguchi took the lead among all those artists, and, around the year of 1980, when gekiga began to fall out of favor, Taniguchi found a way to survive even after so many other similar artists disappeared from the scene.
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