Japanese manga artist Jiro Taniguchi dies aged 69

One of Japan's best-known manga specialists, Jiro Taniguchi, has kicked the bucket matured 69, his distributer has declared.

Mr Taniguchi, who was known for his exquisite line drawings and complicatedly built scenes, passed on Saturday.

His specialty earned him a universal after and some of his work was made into a TV arrangement.

His demise was declared by Casterman, his distributer in France, where his work was especially mainstream.

"Casterman should tragically declare the passing of Jiro Taniguchi on 11 February," the organization said on its site, communicating "profound sympathies" to his family.

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Mr Taniguchi was generally adulated for the delicate way in which he moved toward subjects that were regularly novel for Japan's manga buyers.

His works, for example, The Walking Man, The Summit of the Gods and The Magic Mountain, stood separated in a sort once in a while observed as established in outrageous savagery and erotic entertainment.

In The Walking Man, the hero of the story just meanders around captivated with parts of regular day to day existence.

Mr Taniguchi was "uncommonly kind and tender," Casterman said in an announcement.

"The humanism that instilled all his work is commonplace to his perusers, yet the man himself was a great deal less notable, normally held in character and more slanted to give his work a chance to talk for his sake," the distributer included.