Arina Tanemura is a Japanese manga artist, illustrator, and character designer.
28 Facts About Arina Tanemura
1.
2.
Arina Tanemura gained mainstream popularity from the late 1990s to mid-2000s with her series Phantom Thief Jeanne, Full Moon o Sagashite, and The Gentlemen's Alliance Cross.
3.
Arina Tanemura was heavily influenced by shojo manga works from her childhood, and she mostly drew female characters.
4.
Arina Tanemura started drawing manga beginning in spring break of her first year in high school, during which she stated she made her first submission to an amateur manga contest.
5.
Arina Tanemura described her submission as a "dark" and "sad" story about the main character's boyfriend dying in a traffic accident and later being approached by his brother.
6.
Arina Tanemura debuted professionally at the age of 18 in 1996.
7.
Arina Tanemura's debut work was a short comic titled The Style of the Second Love, which was published in the shojo manga magazine Ribon Original.
8.
From 1998 to 2000, Arina Tanemura worked on Phantom Thief Jeanne.
9.
From 2002 to 2004, Arina Tanemura worked on Full Moon o Sagashite, a story centered on an idol singer.
10.
Arina Tanemura, having once wanted to become a lyricist, created the series out of a desire to write lyrics.
11.
For Full Moon o Sagashite, Tanemura recorded a cover version of Changin' My Life's "Smile" titled "Smile ", which was released on the soundtrack album Full Moon o Sagashite: Full Moon Final Live.
12.
In 2004, Arina Tanemura published The Gentlemen's Alliance Cross, which ran in Ribon until 2008.
13.
Arina Tanemura provided the voice for Maora Ichinomiya and the Postman for the limited edition drama CD.
14.
Arina Tanemura wrote Mistress Fortune as a "middle school romance" and intentionally made the story more light-hearted compared to The Gentlemen's Alliance Cross.
15.
Arina Tanemura had decided to draw the manga after they had expressed interest in cosplaying as her characters.
16.
In November 2011, Arina Tanemura ended her exclusive contract with Ribon to work freelance, her last work with the magazine being Sakura Hime: The Legend of Princess Sakura, which concluded in 2012.
17.
Arina Tanemura wrote and illustrated Neko to Watashi no Kinyobi, which ran in Margaret from 2013 to 2015.
18.
In 2015, Arina Tanemura contributed character designs to the game and media project Idolish7.
19.
Arina Tanemura contributed colored illustrations to the Touken Ranbu anthology, Touken Ranbu Gakuen.
20.
From 2015 to 2016, Arina Tanemura briefly released dojinshi as Meguro Teikoku.
21.
In October 2015, Arina Tanemura collaborated with Yui Kikuta, one of her former assistants, to create the manga series Shunkan Lyle, which ran in Monthly Comic Zero Sum.
22.
Arina Tanemura said she drew influences from shojo manga from her childhood, particularly comedy stories such as Tokimeki Tonight and Chibi Maruko-chan, and she drew according to trends she believes were fashionable, resulting in her current art style.
23.
Arina Tanemura stated that her art style is not derived from specific artists, and that she has been drawing in the same style since she was young, but has since then cited Hayao Miyazaki, Rumiko Takahashi, Kei Kusunoki, Yuu Watase, and Fumiko Tanikawa as people who have personally inspired her.
24.
Arina Tanemura intended to draw in a style that makes her works difficult to animate.
25.
Arina Tanemura drew a reversal of this theme for Idol Dreams, where the main protagonist transforms into the young girl she had wanted to be, to appeal to fans who had grown up with her work.
26.
Idol Dreams is centered on an idol singer, but Arina Tanemura drew influences from older magical girl idol series like Creamy Mami and Fancy Lala.
27.
Arina Tanemura stated that she is a fan of Fudanjuku and actively follows their career; she is friends with the group's members and wrote the manga Fudanjuku Monogatari based on their stage personas.
28.
Arina Tanemura stated her stories were not meant to deliver a specific message to young women and that they were for everyone to enjoy.