History Creator / MayuShinjo

* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Happens quite a few times in her stories, most notably,

* BreakTheCutie: A given, specially in regards to the female characters. [[Manga/HaouAiren Kurumi]] and [[Manga/SensualPhrase Aine]] are the ones who get it the worst.

** DarkerAndEdgier: ''Haou Airen'' not only is rather sex-driven, but it also features a heavily violent environment as a whole.

* {{Bishonen}}: All of her male leads are stunningly beautiful in-universe with women willingly throwing themselves at them. Due to Shinjo's issues with OnlySixFaces, this bleeds into all of her supporting characters as well.

* OffModel: Character's faces tend to look ''off'' when drawn from certain angles, in particular, her earlier works featured disproportionately long 'chins and limbs.
** The first chapter of ''Ai Ore'' shows Mizuki and the rest of the women from Blau Rosen as very masculine (no curves, wider and broader shoulders, flatter chests, much taller) in order to play up the GenderBender nature of the work. As the story progresses and the romance develops, Mizuki and the other girls all are depicted as much more feminine (shorter, bigger eyes, curvier figures).

* FetishizedAbuser: She's ''famous'' for this. They mostly tend to be huge bastards to pretty much everyone, as well as having ''very'' {{Dark And Troubled Past}}s.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Many of her stories feature a pure innocent virgin being seduced by a bad boy of some kind, Haoi Airen (Hakuron is part of the Hong Kong mafia) and Sensual Phrase (Sakuya is a rock star) in particular.

However, in 2014, she admitted that [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-11-12/mayu-shinjo-i-dont-think-ill-ever-write-shojo-manga-again/.80937 she has no interest in writing shoujo manga anymore]] preferring BoysLove instead.

Ms. Shinjo's manga, as mentioned, qualify in the shoujo spectrum. She draws lots of bishonen, gives her male leads [[FetishizedAbuser very sex-driven and forceful personalities]] [[TallDarkAndSnarky and lots of snarky comments about everything]], while making her female leads quite HollywoodHomely ([[SheCleansupNicely until it's time to clean up]]) and [[CorruptTheCutie in constant verge of being corrupted.]] Her stories tend to go for ''lots'' of emotional stuff, if not downright {{Melodrama}}, as well as being HotterAndSexier than your average shoujo, featuring many sex scenes among her male and female leads.

Mrs. Shinjo left the company to go freelance citing a dispute over working conditions and abusive treatment by her editor. How bad was that? In her blog, she noted that not only she was subjected to very abusive and restrictive work conditions (limited sleep hours, being forced to work many extra hours without any extra pay, constant editor pressure, being forced to change her storylines, etc.), but also that though she was the actual creator of her manga titles, she was ''one of the last to know about any adaptation plans for her series'', even learning about some (like ''Manga/SensualPhrase'') through TV channel websites instead of her abusive editors. When she decided to leave, one editor threatened to take all of her earlier series out of print, but Shinjo contacted a lawyer and the threat was never carried out.

Mrs. Shinjo's manga, as mentioned, qualify in the shoujo spectrum. She draws lots of bishonen, gives her male leads [[FetishizedAbuser very sex-driven and forceful personalities]] [[TallDarkAndSnarky and lots of snarky comments about everything]], while making her female leads quite HollywoodHomely ([[SheCleansupNicely until it's time to clean up]]) and [[CorruptTheCutie in constant verge of being corrupted.]] Her stories tend to go for ''lots'' of emotional stuff, if not downright {{Melodrama}}, as well as being HotterAndSexier than your average shoujo, featuring many sex scenes among her male and female leads.

* StealthParody: Some theorize her works as being this for Shoujo manga as a whole given just how over the top all of the scenarios are and how they take typical unquestioned tropes present in many shoujo works (FetishizedAbuser, RapeAsDrama, BroodingBoyGentleGirl, etc.) and turn them UpToEleven.

* PsychoticLoveTriangle: There will be at least one in every work. At first the male love interest will be a Yandere and BastardBoyfriend while his GirlNextDoor girlfriend will be more or less normal. Then, the girl who will appear to challenge said GirlNextDoor will tun out to be a Yandere ClingyJealousGirl... meaning that the two yanderes do not compete for someone else, but the crazy dude is the target of both a crazy girl and a non-crazy one.

* StealthParody: Some theorize her works as being this for Shoujo manga as a whole given just how over the top all of the scenarios are and how they take typical unquestioned tropes present in many shoujo works (BastardBoyfriend, RapeAsDrama, BroodingBoyGentleGirl, etc.) and turn them UpToEleven.

* ImAManICantHelpIt: It goes hand in hand with the BastardBoyfriend trope. It's usually the justification given for the male love interest's constant attempts to sleep with the heroine.

** ''Manga/DemonLoveSpell'', where Kagura is less of a BastardBoyfriend (though some of his antics are still questionable) and Miko is more able to keep him under her thumb.

Mrs. Shinjo's manga, as mentioned, qualify in the shoujo spectrum. She draws lots of bishonen, gives her male leads [[BastardBoyfriend very sex-driven and forceful personalities]] [[TallDarkAndSnarky and lots of snarky comments about everything]], while making her female leads quite HollywoodHomely ([[SheCleansupNicely until it's time to clean up]]) and [[CorruptTheCutie in constant verge of being corrupted.]] Her stories tend to go for ''lots'' of emotional stuff, if not downright {{Melodrama}}, as well as being HotterAndSexier than your average shoujo, featuring many sex scenes among her male and female leads.

* BastardBoyfriend: She's ''famous'' for this. They mostly tend to be Conflicted types: huge bastards to pretty much everyone, as well as having ''very'' {{Dark And Troubled Past}}s.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: The reason most of her stories exist.
%%* AllMenArePerverts
* AllWomenAreLustful <- -> AllWomenArePrudes: Zigzagged all around.
* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Their male and female leads

* BastardBoyfriend: Oooh boy, she's ''famous'' for this. They mostly tend to be Conflicted types: huge bastards to pretty much everyone, as well as having ''very'' {{Dark And Troubled Past}}s.

* {{Bishonen}}: Every male character is this.

* NearRapeExperience: Again, see RapeAsDrama below.

* OffModel: Character's faces tend to look ''off'' when drawn from certain angles. Those ''chins'', man.

* PsychoticLoveTriangle: Played with. At first the male love interest will be a Yandere and BastardBoyfriend while his GirlNextDoor girlfriend will be more or less normal. Then, the girl who will appear to challenge said GirlNextDoor will tun out to be a Yandere ClingyJealousGirl... meaning that the two yanderes do not compete for someone else, but the crazy dude is the target of both a crazy girl and a non-crazy one.
* RapeAsDrama: If the heroine of the series isn't ''at least'' being threatened with rape at some point, it isn't a true Mayu Shinjo creation.
* StealthParody: Some theorize her works as being this for Shoujo manga as a whole.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Her male leads tend to be this.
* TraumaCongaLine: Those poor, ''poor'' girls...
* VillainProtagonist: The male leads, with all their rape and abuse, count as this. The closest to an exception is Kagura from ''Demon Love Spell''.
* {{Yandere}}/CrazyJealousGuy: ... Need to ask?
** ClingyJealousGirl: There is no shortage of these as well, and often portrayed as the female lead's rival in love. [[PsychoticLoveTriangle OWWWWW.]]

Mayu Shinjo (born January 26, 1973) is a Japanese manga artist. She debuted in 1994 in Shogakukan's Shōjo Comic with "Anata no Iro ni Somaritai". She continued writing for Shogakukan until 2007, with her works appearing in both Shōjo Comic and their other magazine Cheese!. She's now working freelance, and her most recent series is ''Manga/AyakashiKoiEmaki'' (published in ''Margaret'' from 2008 to 2014).

* ''Manga/AyakashiKoiEmaki''

** ''Manga/AyakashiKoiEmaki'', where Kagura is less of a BastardBoyfriend (though some of his antics are still questionable) and Miko is more able to keep him under her thumb.

* VillainProtagonist: The male leads, with all their rape and abuse, count as this. The closest to an exception is Kagura from ''Ayakashi Koi Emaki''.

** DarkerAndEdgier: ''Haou Airen'' not only is rather sex-driven, but it also features a heavy violent environment as a whole.

* HotterAndSexier: More than the average shoujo. Not ''that'' surprising if you consider she published many of them in ''Shoujo Comic'' which tends to hosts more steamy (and often rape-y) shoujo manga than the standard shoujo magazines.