Works — Kenichi Kiriki

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La Photographe

東京シャッターガール — Tokyo Shutter Girl

Serialized 2010–2013, Weekly Manga Goraku (Nihon Bungeisha) · 3 volumes

A high-school girl walks Tokyo with an old film camera, photographing the city no guidebook shows — its alleys, festivals, and quiet hours. A lyrical "street-walking photo comic" about how a place is seen, and by whom.

Published in French (Komikku Éditions, tr. Patrick Honnoré & Yukari Maeda), Italian (Hikari Edizioni) and Korean. Adapted into a live-action omnibus film in 2013, directed by Macoto Tezka, Motoyuki Kobayashi and Kotaro Terauchi.

"Un beau cadeau en perspective pour l'amateur de Tokyo et de ses secrets." — LE MONDE

"Un coup de maître." — ACTUABD

FILM TRAILER — TOKYO SHUTTER GIRL (2013)

FR / IT / KR editions Feature film 2013 Japan-Filmfest Hamburg 2014

Kanazawa Shutter Girl

金沢シャッターガール

Serialized 2015–2017 (Takeshobo) · Feature film 2018

A companion to Tokyo Shutter Girl, set in the old capital of Kanazawa. Hana, a high-school photographer, guides a visiting German photographer searching for his Japanese mother — a story of inheritance, memory, and what a photograph can and cannot find. Adapted into a live-action film in 2018, directed by Kotaro Terauchi — international premiere at the Japan-Filmfest Hamburg.

Kanazawa Shutter Girl — film poster, 2018

FILM TRAILER — KANAZAWA SHUTTER GIRL (2018)

Feature film 2018 Int'l Premiere — Japan-Filmfest Hamburg 2018 ↗

The Painter Series

My Muse / The Count Who Painted / Degas (in development)

Historical fiction — Bande dessinée · In development

A series of graphic novels on painters and the people they saw. My Muse asks who a painter chooses to paint; The Count Who Painted, on Toulouse-Lautrec, asks what he paints. The third chapter — Edgar Degas and a nameless dancer of the Paris Opera — asks what a painter truly sees in another human being.

38p + 25p samples available EN / FR materials

Coming Soon

New Series — TBA

In progress · 2026

A new historical manga project with a major French publisher. Details to be announced.

Selected Projects

2014 · NHK

Taiga Drama "Hanamoyu"

Animation character design for the NHK Taiga drama museum — Japan's flagship year-long historical drama series.

2019 · Shogakukan

Shutter Girl: moment

Original story for a standalone volume on the national high-school photography championship (art: MUGENUP).

2018 · Hagi City

Choshu Five

Commissioned graphic novel for the Meiji Restoration 150th anniversary, on the five samurai who secretly sailed to London in 1863. Kiriki serves as cultural ambassador of Hagi.

2010s · Tokiwa-so Project

Shiunso Workshops

Mentored aspiring manga artists at Shiunso — the surviving apartment near the legendary Tokiwa-so, once the workroom of Fujio Akatsuka.

Editorial & Webtoon

Industry Roles

Editor-in-chief and production roles across Japan's digital manga and Webtoon industry; former CEO of a webtoon studio.

Career

1991–92

Debut in Weekly Shonen Jump. Winner, 78th Hop Step Award (Nanase-kun no Baka); runner-up, 36th Akatsuka Award (Wakage).

2004

Pu-yan, table-tennis youth comedy, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump (2 vols).

2006–10

Moves to seinen magazines: Detective Office 5" and Resident Girl, serialized in Business Jump (Shueisha).

2010

Tokyo Shutter Girl begins in Weekly Manga Goraku. French, Italian and Korean editions follow.

2013

Tokyo Shutter Girl: the film. Live-action omnibus adaptation released in Japan.

2015–18

Kanazawa Shutter Girl serialized; live-action film premieres internationally at Japan-Filmfest Hamburg 2018. French edition of La Photographe reviewed in Le Monde.

2026

The Painter Series in development for the French BD market; new series with a major French publisher in progress.