History Creator / TanakaYutaka

* ''Manga/VirginNight'' (1996)

!! Works written by Tanaka include

Tanaka Yutaka (born September 8, 1966) is a mangaka responsible for a number of titles, the most well-known being the short story collection ''Virgin Night'', ''Manga/MyLovelyGhostKana'', ''Manga/AiRen'', and ''Manga/MimiaHime''. His work is generally considered and categorized as {{hentai}} on indexes, which may restrict his potential audience, but truthfully what he writes is SliceOfLife PornWithPlot with ''heavy'' emphasis on plot. His stories focus on relationships, love, sex and how honesty and openness causes them to flourish. He likes to avert most of the usual tropes, with strong women who are not afraid to take the lead in a relationship, honesty between partners and an aversion to CantSpitItOut-itis and other PoorCommunicationKills. Despite some dark back-stories and bittersweet moments (and more than occasional severe MoodWhiplash) his work is inevitably optimistic and can leave you with warm fuzzies if you are willing to go for the ride. If you haven't heard of him before, the above titles are excellent starting points[[note]]check the Hentai entry for a scale of explicitness for your preference[[/note]] and can often be found as scanlations on various manga sites and are most certainly worth reading.

* BittersweetEnding: He is very likely to set you up and then pull the rug out from under you in either direction. See under MoodWhiplash.
* BoyMeetsGirl: Or Boy has already Met Girl.

* {{Ecchi}}: Certainly, even in his tamer work.

* {{Hentai}}: Virgin Night is on the explicit side of the scale; ''Manga/AiRen'' is barely R-Rated; ''Manga/MyLovelyGhostKana'' is somewhere in between. So far, ''Manga/MimiaHime'' is distinctly G-Rated.
* LighterAndSofter: It's refreshing to see sex portrayed in an R-Rated manga as nothing more than a natural, happy part of a solid relationship and not involve rape, demons and/or tentacles.

* PornWithPlot: With heavy emphasis on plot and characters, but he does not shy away from showing ''all'' aspects of a relationship.
* ThePowerOfLove: His characters [[EarnYourHappyEnding find happiness]] and/or peace with each other, sometimes even in the face of the [[AfterTheEnd absolute]] [[AnyoneCanDie worst]] [[DrivenToSuicide things]] the world wants to throw at them. The central idea of most of his stories is that, if you have love, you can overcome anything.

* SignatureStyle: See the minimalism entry. ''Manga/MimiaHime'' takes his love for minimalist, poetic writing and SceneryPorn and cranks it Up To Eleven, resulting in something of transcendent beauty.
* SliceOfLife: Take two people, put them together, and show us how much they love each other.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex and grow closer for it.

* NoExportForYou: If you don't read Japanese, you will have to find scanlations. Adult-only official translations probably won't be seen any time soon.

Tanaka Yutaka (born September 8, 1966) is a mangaka responsible for a number of titles, the most well-known being the short story collection ''Virgin Night'', ''Manga/MyLovelyGhostKana'', ''Manga/AiRen'', and ''Manga/MimiaHime''. His work is generally considered and categorized as {{hentai}} on indexes, [[SugarWiki/NeedsMoreLove which may restrict his potential audience]], but truthfully what he writes is SliceOfLife PornWithPlot with ''heavy'' emphasis on plot. His stories focus on relationships, love, sex and how honesty and openness causes them to flourish. He likes to avert most of the usual tropes, with strong women who are not afraid to take the lead in a relationship, honesty between partners and an aversion to CantSpitItOut-itis and other PoorCommunicationKills. Despite some dark back-stories and bittersweet moments (and more than occasional severe MoodWhiplash) his work is inevitably optimistic and can leave you with warm fuzzies if you are willing to go for the ride. If you haven't heard of him before, ([[SugarWiki/NeedsMoreLove and you probably haven't]]) the above titles are excellent starting points[[note]]check the Hentai entry for a scale of explicitness for your preference[[/note]] and can often be found as scanlations on various manga sites and are most certainly worth reading.

* BitterSweetEnding: He is very likely to set you up and then pull the rug out from under you in either direction. See under MoodWhiplash.

Tanaka Yutaka is a mangaka responsible for a number of titles, the most well-known being the short story collection ''Virgin Night'', ''Manga/MyLovelyGhostKana'', ''Manga/AiRen'', and ''Manga/MimiaHime''. His work is generally considered and categorized as {{hentai}} on indexes, [[SugarWiki/NeedsMoreLove which may restrict his potential audience]], but truthfully what he writes is SliceOfLife PornWithPlot with ''heavy'' emphasis on plot. His stories focus on relationships, love, sex and how honesty and openness causes them to flourish. He likes to avert most of the usual tropes, with strong women who are not afraid to take the lead in a relationship, honesty between partners and an aversion to CantSpitItOut-itis and other PoorCommunicationKills. Despite some dark back-stories and bittersweet moments (and more than occasional severe MoodWhiplash) his work is inevitably optimistic and can leave you with warm fuzzies if you are willing to go for the ride. If you haven't heard of him before, ([[SugarWiki/NeedsMoreLove and you probably haven't]]) the above titles are excellent starting points[[note]]check the Hentai entry for a scale of explicitness for your preference[[/note]] and can often be found as scanlations on various manga sites and are most certainly worth reading.

* PowerOfLove: The central idea of most of his stories is that, if you have love, you can overcome anything.

* ThePowerOfLove: His characters [[EarnYourHappyEnding find happiness]] and/or peace with each other, sometimes even in the face of the [[AfterTheEnd absolute]] [[AnyoneCanDie worst]] [[DrivenToSuicide things]] the world wants to throw at them.

* MoodWhiplash: Mood Compound Neck Fracture. He is really, ''really'' good at hitting you with a sudden punch of scary, sad or heart-warming moments when you are least expecting it, even when you think you are expecting it.

Tanaka Yutaka is a mangaka responsible for a number of titles, the most well-known being the short story collection ''Virgin Night'', ''Manga/MyLovelyGhostKana'', ''Manga/{{Ai-Ren}}'', and ''Manga/MimiaHime''. His work is generally considered and categorized as {{hentai}} on indexes, [[SugarWiki/NeedsMoreLove which may restrict his potential audience]], but truthfully what he writes is SliceOfLife PornWithPlot with ''heavy'' emphasis on plot. His stories focus on relationships, love, sex and how honesty and openness causes them to flourish. He likes to avert most of the usual tropes, with strong women who are not afraid to take the lead in a relationship, honesty between partners and an aversion to CantSpitItOut-itis and other PoorCommunicationKills. Despite some dark back-stories and bittersweet moments (and more than occasional severe MoodWhiplash) his work is inevitably optimistic and can leave you with warm fuzzies if you are willing to go for the ride. If you haven't heard of him before, ([[SugarWiki/NeedsMoreLove and you probably haven't]]) the above titles are excellent starting points[[note]]check the Hentai entry for a scale of explicitness for your preference[[/note]] and can often be found as scanlations on various manga sites and are most certainly worth reading.

* GenreBusting: ''Manga/{{Ai-Ren}}'' and ''Manga/MyLovelyGhostKana'' are really hard to categorize, other than SliceOfLife in only the most superficial sense.

* {{Hentai}}: Virgin Night is on the explicit side of the scale; ''Manga/{{Ai-Ren}}'' is barely R-Rated; ''Manga/MyLovelyGhostKana'' is somewhere in between. So far, ''Manga/MimiaHime'' is distinctly G-Rated.

--> '''[[Manga/{{Ai-Ren}} Ai]]''': I'll be here dreaming... with lots of stars ♥ ... Smiling while dreaming... waiting for you, whom I love.

Tanaka Yutaka is a mangaka responsible for a number of titles, the most well-known being the short story collection ''Virgin Night'', ''Manga/MyLovelyGhostKana'', ''Manga/{{Ai-Ren}}'', and ''Manga/MimiaHime''. His work is generally considered and categorized as {{hentai}} on indexes, [[NeedsMoreLove which may restrict his potential audience]], but truthfully what he writes is SliceOfLife PornWithPlot with ''heavy'' emphasis on plot. His stories focus on relationships, love, sex and how honesty and openness causes them to flourish. He likes to avert most of the usual tropes, with strong women who are not afraid to take the lead in a relationship, honesty between partners and an aversion to CantSpitItOut-itis and other PoorCommunicationKills. Despite some dark back-stories and bittersweet moments (and more than occasional severe MoodWhiplash) his work is inevitably optimistic and can leave you with warm fuzzies if you are willing to go for the ride. If you haven't heard of him before, ([[NeedsMoreLove and you probably haven't]]) the above titles are excellent starting points[[note]]check the Hentai entry for a scale of explicitness for your preference[[/note]] and can often be found as scanlations on various manga sites and are most certainly worth reading.

* SliceOfLife: Take two people, put them together, show us how and how much they love each other.

* LighterAndSofter: It's refreshing to see sex portrayed in manga as nothing more than a natural, happy part of a solid relationship and not involve rape, demons and/or tentacles.

Tanaka Yutaka is a mangaka responsible for a number of titles, the most well-known being the short story collection ''Virgin Night'', ''Manga/MyLovelyGhostKana'', ''{{Ai-Ren}}'', and ''Manga/MimiaHime''. His work is generally considered and categorized as {{hentai}} on indexes, [[NeedsMoreLove which may restrict his potential audience]], but truthfully what he writes is SliceOfLife PornWithPlot with ''heavy'' emphasis on plot. His stories focus on relationships, love, sex and how honesty and openness causes them to flourish. He likes to avert most of the usual tropes, with strong women who are not afraid to take the lead in a relationship, honesty between partners and an aversion to CantSpitItOut-itis and other PoorCommunicationKills. Despite some dark back-stories and bittersweet moments (and more than occasional severe MoodWhiplash) his work is inevitably optimistic and can leave you with warm fuzzies if you are willing to go for the ride. If you haven't heard of him before, ([[NeedsMoreLove and you probably haven't]]) the above titles are excellent starting points[[note]]check the Hentai entry for a scale of explicitness for your preference[[/note]] and can often be found as scanlations on various manga sites and are most certainly worth reading.

* GenreBusting: {{Ai-Ren}} and Manga/MyLovelyGhostKana are really hard to categorize, other than SliceOfLife in only the most superficial sense.

* {{Hentai}}: Virgin Night is on the explicit side of the scale; {{Ai-Ren}} is barely R-Rated; Manga/MyLovelyGhostKana is somewhere in between. So far, ''Manga/MimiaHime'' is distinctly G-Rated.

--> '''[[{{Ai-Ren}} Ai]]''': I'll be here dreaming... with lots of stars ♥ ... Smiling while dreaming... waiting for you, whom I love.

* {{Hentai}}: Virgin Night is on the explicit side of the scale; {{Ai-Ren}} is barely R-Rated; Manga/MyLovelyGhostKana is somewhere in between. So far, {{Mimia-hime}} is distinctly G-Rated.

* SignatureStyle: See the minimalism entry. {{Mimia-hime}} takes his love for minimalist, poetic writing and SceneryPorn and cranks it Up To Eleven, resulting in something of transcendent beauty.

Tanaka Yutaka is a mangaka responsible for a number of titles, the most well-known being the short story collection ''Virgin Night'', ''Manga/MyLovelyGhostKana'', ''{{Ai-Ren}}'', and ''{{Mimia-hime}}''. His work is generally considered and categorized as {{hentai}} on indexes, [[NeedsMoreLove which may restrict his potential audience]], but truthfully what he writes is SliceOfLife PornWithPlot with ''heavy'' emphasis on plot. His stories focus on relationships, love, sex and how honesty and openness causes them to flourish. He likes to avert most of the usual tropes, with strong women who are not afraid to take the lead in a relationship, honesty between partners and an aversion to CantSpitItOut-itis and other PoorCommunicationKills. Despite some dark back-stories and bittersweet moments (and more than occasional severe MoodWhiplash) his work is inevitably optimistic and can leave you with warm fuzzies if you are willing to go for the ride. If you haven't heard of him before, ([[NeedsMoreLove and you probably haven't]]) the above titles are excellent starting points[[note]]check the Hentai entry for a scale of explicitness for your preference[[/note]] and can often be found as scanlations on various manga sites and are most certainly worth reading.

Tanaka Yutaka is a mangaka responsible for a number of titles, the most well-known being the short story collection ''Virgin Night'', ''Manga/MyLovelyGhostKana'', ''{{Ai-Ren}}'', and ''{{Mimia-hime}}''. His work is generally considered and categorized as {{hentai}} on indexes, [[NeedsMoreLove which may restrict his potential audience]], but truthfully what he writes is SliceOfLife PornWithPlot with ''heavy'' emphasis on plot. His stories focus on relationships, love, sex and how honesty and openness causes them to flourish. He likes to avert most of the usual tropes, with strong women who are not afraid to take the lead in a relationship, honesty between partners and an aversion to CantSpitItOut-itis and other PoorCommunicationKills. Despite some dark back-stories and bittersweet moments (and more than occasional severe MoodWhiplash) his work is inevitably optimistic and can leave you with warm fuzzies if you are willing to go for the ride. If you haven't heard of him before, ([[NeedsMoreLove and you probably haven't]]) the above titles are excellent starting points [[hottip:*:check the Hentai entry for a scale of explicitness for your preference]] and can often be found as scanlations on various manga sites and are most certainly worth reading.

* LighterAndSofter: It's refreshing to see sex portrayed in manga as nothing more than a natural, happy part of a solid relationship and not involve rape, demons and/or [[NaughtyTentacles tentacles]].

* SweetDreamsFuel: To paraphrase another troper, "By the end of one of his stories, you are likely to want to run off and find someone to hug."

* AngstWhatAngst: {{Ai-Ren}} and Manga/MyLovelyGhostKana feature characters who would have every reason in the world to give up, but who barely even acknowledge their problems, much less let them run their lives.
** In the rare case that they do acknowledge their problems, they often find a way to emerge from their burdens as stronger people and the bond between them reinforced.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: His stories are packed with heartwarming. As the entry under Virgin Night says, this is erotica that wears its heart on its sleeve.
** For Tanaka-san himself, the afterword he wrote for Manga/MyLovelyGhostKana. The story had incubated in his head for a long time, but didn't feel he could do it justice at the time he originally thought of it. He describes how long he worked as a mangaka before he felt he had developed the skill to bring the work to fruition the way he felt it deserved. It's humbling, heartwarming and inspiring, just like his manga.

** (And let's be honest, [[TruthInTelevision many couples in serious relationships do actually have sex.]])

* SignatureStyle: See the minimalism entry.
** {{Mimia-hime}} takes his love for minimalist, poetic writing and SceneryPorn and cranks it UpToEleven, resulting in something of transcendant beauty.

* ThePowerOfLove: His characters [[EarnYourHappyEnding find happiness]] and/or peace with each other, sometimes even [[AngstWhatAngst in the face of]] the [[AfterTheEnd absolute]] [[AnyoneCanDie worst]] [[DrivenToSuicide things]] the world wants to throw at them.