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Nio Nakatani (仲谷鳰, Nakatani Nio) is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known for creating the yuri manga series Bloom Into You, which has been a commercial success and spawned a media franchise encompassing an anime, light novels, a stage play, and an anthology manga spinoff. Nakatani is also known as a creator of doujinshi works, particularly those based on the Touhou Project series. Her current work is God Bless the Mistaken, currently being serialized in Dengeki Daioh. She is a native of Shiga Prefecture.

Nio Nakatani
Born	November 25th[1][lower-alpha 1] Shiga, Japan
Pen name	Rireba (リレバ)
Occupation	Manga artist
Language	Japanese
Period	2010–present
Genre	Yuri[2] Romance[3] Fantasy[4]
Notable works	Bloom Into You God Bless the Mistaken
Notable awards	21st Dengeki Comics Grand Prize, Gold (2014)
Signature
Website
Official website

Career

Nakatani became known as a manga artist through her work on doujinshi, especially those based on the Touhou Project series,[5] which she published as a personal circle known as "Rireba" (リレバ).[lower-alpha 2][6] Nakatani's professional pen name, Nio, is the Japanese term for little grebe, which is the official bird of her home prefecture of Shiga. As the little grebe is known as a long-lived bird in Shiga, she hopes it will grant her a "long and successful career." Nakatani admits however that, in reality, she came up with "Nio" by scrambling her real name, and the relation to the bird was a coincidence.[7]

According to Nakatani, she became first interested in drawing manga about girls when reading Yun Kōga's manga Loveless, "which has no girls in it" and led her to realize "I might like stories about girls."[8] In 2014, Nakatani submitted her one-shot work Farewell to My Alter, which she had previously self-published, to the Dengeki Daioh magazine.[9][10] Farewell to My Alter appeared in the magazine in October of 2014 as Nakatani's professional debut, winning her a Gold award in the 21st Dengeki Comics Grand Prize contest.[11][12][5] Nakatani created one additional one-shot work for the magazine, Tear-Flavored Escargot, which appeared in the December 2014 issue prior to her first serialization.[10]

Although Nakatani viewed her works as being about "human relationships" and did not intentionally set out to write yuri, she gained a reputation as a "yuri mangaka," leading the editor of Dengeki Daioh to approach her at a doujinshi convention, asking if she wanted to draw a yuri series for the magazine.[7][5] This led Nakatani to create Bloom Into You, her debut serialized work, with the intention of creating a yuri story "that could only be seen as yuri no matter which way you looked at it."[5]

Bloom Into You began its serialization in Dengeki Daioh on April 27th, 2015[13] and concluded on September 27th, 2019 after a 45-chapter run.[14] The series had over 1,000,000 copies in print in Japan as of 2019,[15] and placed 4th in the 2017 Next Manga Awards from Niconico and Da Vinci.[16] It has been adapted into an anime series[17] and a stage play,[18][19] and received spinoffs in the form of light novels[20] and anthology comics.[21]

After the completion of Bloom Into You, Nakatani expressed that she wanted her next work to be of a genre other than yuri, as she felt she had already written the yuri story she wished to write (although she implied she might consider including girl-girl couples in some capacity in her future works).[5] Nakatani's current work, Kami-sama ga Machigaeru, was announced in Dengeki Daioh on September 26th, 2021, and began serialization on October 27th, 2021.[22][23] It is being simultaneously published digitally in English by Yen Press under the title God Bless the Mistaken.[4][24]

Nakatani has collaborated as an illustrator with light novel writer and Adachi and Shimamura author Hitoma Iruma, first on the Bloom Into You light novel spinoff series Regarding Saeki Sayaka,[25] and later on End Blue and Shoujo Mousou Chuu.[5][26][27][28]

Works

Published manga

• Farewell to My Alter (さよならオルタ)[lower-alpha 3]
• Tear-Flavored Escargot[lower-alpha 4]
• Bloom Into You (やがて君になる)
• God Bless the Mistaken (神さまがまちガえる)

Light novels

• Bloom Into You: Regarding Saeki Sayaka (やがて君になる 佐伯沙弥香について) (as illustrator; writer: Hitoma Iruma)
• Shoujo Mousou Chuu (少女妄想中) (as illustrator; writer: Hitoma Iruma)[5][27][28]
• End Blue (エンドブルー) (as illustrator; writer: Hitoma Iruma)[26]

Anthologies/compilations

• Éclair: A Girls' Love Anthology That Resonates in Your Heart (エクレア あなたに響く百合アンソロジー)[lower-alpha 5]
• Éclair Blanche (エクレア blanche)
• Éclair Bleue (エクレア bleue)
• Éclair Rouge (エクレアrouge)[lower-alpha 6]
• Éclair Orange (エクレア orange)
• Bloom Into You Anthology (やがて君になる　公式コミックアンソロジー)[lower-alpha 7]
• Farewell to my Alter: Nio Nakatani Short Story Collection (さよならオルタ)[lower-alpha 8]

Art books

• Bloom Into You Illustration Works ASTROLABE (やがて君になる画集　アストロラーベ)

Doujinshi works

Self-published under the pen name "Rireba" (リレバ).[29]

• Silver Fire (銀の火, Gin no Hi)
• Mimesis Dolls
• Fantasy Melt (幻想メルト, Gensō Meruto)
• Tsukinaki (月哭)
• And to Call Your Name (そして名前を呼ぶために, Soshite Namae o Yobu Tame Ni)
• Luminous Butterfly (ルミナスバタフライ)
• Spectral Feelings -Invisible Violet- (スペクトルのきもち, Supekutoru no Ki Mochi)
• The Focal Length is Nine Feet (焦点は求フィート, Shouten wa Motome Photo)
• unfair randomizer (アンフェア ランダマイザ)
• Cat's House (ねこのいえ, Neko no Ie)
• Relation Valley 1 (リレイション・バレイ1　リレバ総集編, Rireishon Barei 1 Rireba Sōshūhen)[lower-alpha 9]
• Research on a Certain Flower (或る花の研究, Aru Hana no Kenkyū)
• BLOODBERRY TRAP
• Farewell to My Alter (さよならオルタ)[lower-alpha 3]
• The Hero Saves the World Three Times (勇者は三回世界を救う, Yūsha wa San-kai Sekai o Sukuu)[lower-alpha 4]
• Wandering Yu-Kyoto (ワンダリング酉京都)
• The Bittersweet Blue (青の甘さは忘れない, Ao no Ama-sa wa Wasurenai)
• Soft Enclosure (やわらかなかご, Yawaraka na Kago)
• Imaginary Anata (イマジナリーあなた, Imajinarī Anata)
• Nagi o Matsu -ue- (凪を俟つ -上-)
• Guardian of Scars (きずあとの番人, Kizuato no Bannin)
• Relation Valley 2 (リレイション・バレイ2　リレバ総集編, Rireishon Barei 2 Rireba Sōshūhen)[lower-alpha 10]
• The Idol Diagonally Opposite Me (ななめまえの偶像, Nanamemae no Idol)
• Q's Copyist (Qの模倣子, Q no Mohō-ko)
• Kyōzō no M (鏡像のM)

Notes

References

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)
• Official site for Nakatani's doujinshi works (in Japanese)
• Nio Nakatani on Anime News Network Encyclopedia

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