Nationality Japanese Occupation Manga artist | Name Tomoko Taniguchi Role Manga artist | |
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Books The Complete Idiot's Gui, Just a Girl 2, The Complete Idiot's Gui, Miss Me?, Let's Stay Together Forever |
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Tomoko Taniguchi (たにぐち智子, Taniguchi Tomoko) is a Japanese shōjo manga artist who was born in Hokkaidō, then spent a year in college at Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan.
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Taniguchi's manga have been published by MB (My Birthday) in Japanese and by CPM Manga in English. She has published 9 volumes of manga total. Her first published manga was Anpan Balance, which won silver at the 4th Omacomi Manga School Contest. Anpan Balance was later released in the manga Let's Stay Together Forever; the title story of that book was her second published story.

Taniguchi and Matt Forbeck have helped write some of the books in the Complete Idiot's Guide to Drawing Manga Illustrated series, especially the Shoujo edition which includes her illustrations.

Taniguchi recently designed her first fabric print for American clothing designer Samantha Rei.
