History Creator / TatsukiFujimoto

[[caption-width-right:200:There's no getting off this chad's wild ride]]

* GenderBenderAngst: It's made immediately clear that, regardless of Toshihide's wishes, his body means most people will see him as a woman ''at best''--if they don't think he's some kind of freak for having previously been male. It doesn't help that his class are also grossly apathetic or misogynist to him on top of that. Even among friends that will acknowledge him as a boy, Toshihide worries he's also become a girl in personality and assume his sex life with his girlfriend is over.

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The first and only Fujimoto work thus far to not be drawn by him but instead by Oto Toda.

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The first and only Fujimoto work thus far to not be drawn by him.

* {{Tsundere}}: One way to interpret the crush's attitude in the ending. She listens to the song with the protagonist and calls it cringey, but also acknowledges that the whole song is based on an intimate moment they shared when they were younger.

* AmbiguousEnding: In the aftermath of the boy's second song flopping so hard that he deletes his other videos, his crush suddenly appears to sit next to him on the train to listen to his first song with him. Does she now appreciate what he was trying to do and willing to at the very least give him friendship if not a chance at romance? Or is she there to further lambaste him for dragging her into the media circus and lowkey torturing him with the song that caused both of them grief?

* ReclusiveArtist: He's seldom shown his face publicly, with many photos of him having his head cropped out. For years he used a Twitter account where he roleplayed as a nonexistent younger sister talking about her "brother's" work (except for a period when the account was mistaken for an actual minor's and locked). When he appeared at Jump Festa 2022, he was represented by an animated graphic of Pochita sitting on his stool while he answered interview questions from off-camera. [[WhyTheFandomCantHaveNiceThings A later interview had him imply that receiving death threats from overenthusiastic readers made him desire more privacy.]]

* ReusedCharacterDesign: You'll notice that he tends to have at least one character with unkept black MessyHair and [[HidingBehindYourBangs long bangs]]. See: Anzu in ''Sisters'', [[Manga/FirePunch Togata]], [[Manga/NayutaOfTheProphecy Nayuta]], [[Manga/ChainsawMan Reze]], [[spoiler:[[{{Transplant}} Nayuta (again)]]]], [[Manga/LookBack Kyomoto]], and [[Manga/GoodbyeEri Eri]].

** Fujimoto notably deemphasizes characters' names, to the point of recycling the protagonist's name between two successive oneshots. Many of his main characters have NoFullNameGiven or literally OnlyOneName (including the protagonist of all his works but ''Sisters'' and Part 2 of ''Chainsaw Man''), while even major supporting characters may have NoNameGiven. Most names are short and simply written, containing no kanji (or extremely common ones for names) and written purely in katakana, even if they're Japanese, giving them an apocryphal feel.

* ''Manga/NayutaOfTheProphecy''

* NoSympathy: Rie and Akira are the only ones who give any kind consideration for the stress Toshihide is undergoing, everyone else either treating him as a freak, a sex object, or acting like he lucky to have to change clothes with the girls.

%%* WhichRestroomDilemma: A student asks --specifically when changing for gym class--and the teacher bluntly insists . The "lucky"

'''Ibuki''' To you...\\

%%* NoSympathy: Rie and Akira
* ProductionThrowback: The main character is named "Toshihide" just like in ''Mermaid Rhapsody''.

%%* StunnedSilence:

** Fujimoto notably deemphasizes characters' names, to the point of recycling the protagonist's name between two sucsessive oneshots. Many of his main characters have NoFullNameGiven or literally OnlyOneName (including the protagonist of all his works but ''Sisters'' and Part 2 of ''Chainsaw Man''), while even major supporting characters may have NoNameGiven. Most names are short and simply written, containing no kanji (or else using extremely common names) and often being written purely in katakana, even if they're Japanese, giving them an apocryphal feel.

* BittersweetEnding: Yohei dies, Yuto probably will as well, and humanity is doomed in the long run, but Yuto is able to save Ami for the time being and thinks fondly of the time they spent together.

* {{Gonk}}: None of the aliens are pretty, but Masatoshi manages to be weird even by comparison. He only has nostrils instead of a nose, his eyes are never in focus, her lips don't cover his teeth, and his manners are awful.

* NextSundayAD: Written in 2011, set after an alien invasion in 2019.
* ObsessedWithFood: Masatoshi goes in a blind rage the second someone mentions there's chicken for him to eat.

* KlingonsLoveShakespeare: Played for horror; aliens think of humans as food but the ones who moved to Earth deliberately adopted the culture of the people they wiped out.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Yohei is the one sheltering humans in the mountains and subtly tries to make question his classmates ethically question eating them.

* TomatoSurprise: Yuto's FaceFramedInShadow under the chicken mask conceals that he's an alien, he's just pretending to be to be human avoid scaring Ami.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The story can be read as a metaphor of a trans man going through puberty but asserting himself as a man regardless.

* ToServeMan: Played with; mermaids don't actually ''want'' to eat humans, but the smell of their blood triggers a HorrorHunger they can take over. It's implied mermaids avoid humans and encourage their reputation as man-eaters [[JerkassFacade because they're afraid of hurting them]].

** Fujimoto notably deemphasizes characters' names, even recycling the protagonist's name between two sucessive oneshots. Many of his main characters have NoFullNameGiven or literally OnlyOneName (including the protagonist of all his works but ''Sisters'' and Part 2 of ''Chainsaw Man''), while even major supporting characters may have NoNameGiven. Most names are short and simply written, containing no kanji and often being written purely in katakana, even if they're Japanese, giving them an apocryphal feel.

* AttractiveBentGender: Most of Toshihide's class regard him as cute as a girl, [[AppearanceAngst which he very much dislikes]].

* LostInTranslation: Seeing Toshihide "flirt with" ([[BlamingTheVictim i.e. get aggressively hit on by]]) his male classmates leads to one of the girls calling him an ''okama yaro (お釜野郎)'', a specifically-insulting variant of ''okama''. It's mostly definitely some sort of GenderedInsult, but the [[TransEqualsGay extremely broad use]] of the term makes it hard to say the standard of ''what'' gender Toshihide is being held to. The English version translates it as [[SlutShaming "slut"]], going with the idea the girls thought of Toshihide as a girl and was acting inappropriately as one.

%%* GenderBenderAngst: Toshihide and .

* LostInTranslation: Seeing Toshihide "flirt with" ([[BlameTheVictim i.e. get aggressively hit on by]]) his male classmates leads to one of the girls calling him an ''okama yaro (お釜野郎)'', a specifically-insulting variant of ''okama''. It's mostly definitely some sort of GenderedInsult, but the [[TransEqualsGay extremely broad use]] of the term makes it hard to say the standard of ''what'' gender Toshihide is being held to. The English version translates it as [[SlutShaming "slut"]], going with the idea the girls thought of Toshihide as a girl and was acting inappropriately as one.

%* GenderBenderAngst: Toshihide and .

%* NoSympathy: Rie and Akira