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Manga Creator Tanemura Featured on English NHK World TV Show

The next episode of imagine-nation, an English-language program shown on the international broadcast service NHK World TV, will feature interviews with manga creators Arina Tanemura and Kenichi Kiriki. The episode will air at 7:30 p.m. EDT on Tuesday and repeat five times on Wednesday.

The imagine-nation program covers comics, anime, and games with interviews, top rankings, and other segments. NHK lists the available ways that viewers outside Japan can watch NHK World, and NHK's own website streams NHK World.

Tanemura debuted in 1996 with the one-shot manga "2-banme no Koi no Katachi" when she was still in high school. Two of her manga series, Kamikaze Kaitō Jeanne and Full Moon wo Sagashite, inspired television anime, and she just ended her Fūdan-juku Monogatari (The Fūdan-juku Story) manga last November. Viz Media publishes most of her titles such as Sakura Hime, Full Moon O Sagashite, The Gentlemen's Alliance Cross, Time Stranger Kyoko, and I.O.N. DC Comics' CMX Manga imprint published her Kamikaze Kaitō Jeanne series.

Kiriki has been drawing his Tokyo Shutter Girl manga about a high school girl street photographer in Weekly Manga Goraku magazine since 2010. He is part of Project Tokiwaso Street, an organization that preserves the legacy of a Tokyo apartment where Osamu Tezuka, Shōtarō Ishinomori, Fujio Akatsuka, and other manga pioneers honed their craft.

In November, the program ran an interview with the Prince of Tennis manga creator Takeshi Konomi, and it then featured Moonlight Mile manga creator Yasuo Ohtagaki in February.

Source: Comic Natalie