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[[caption-width-right:128:Tsubaki's current Twitter profile pic: [[Manga/OresamaTeacher Super-Bun]] giving [[Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun the Tanuki]] what it deserves.]]
Izumi Tsubaki (born December 11, 1986) is a mangaka writing for the ShoujoDemographic... [[DenserAndWackier For the most part]]. She made her debut in her first year of high school after winning an honorable mention in a manga contest. [[Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun Now doesn't that sound familiar?]] Almost all of her works have been published in Magazine/HanaToYume, with the exceptions of ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'', published in [=GanGan=] Online, and the one shot ''A Gentle Time'', published in Young Animal ZERO. The fact that both of these are sources targeted at men should tell you [[MultipleDemographicAppeal just how "girly" her works usually are]].
Fellow mangaka Yoshiki Koga is her twin sister. She cites Creator/YoshihiroTogashi as her inspiration... Though how she made the jump from reading [[ShonenDemographic shonen]] action to writing shoujo comedy isn't clear.
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!! Serialized manga by Izumi Tsubaki:
* ''Oyayubi kara Romance'' (Lit. ''Romance From the Thumb'', officially localized as ''The Magic Touch'')
* ''Manga/OresamaTeacher''
* ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun''
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!! One shots by Izumi Tsubaki:
* ''Don't Hate Me''
* ''Chijimete Distance'' (Lit. ''Shorten the Distance'')
* ''Tell Me, Prince''
* ''You Like Me, Don't You?!''
* ''A Gentle Time''
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!! Tropes commonly featured in Tsubaki's works:
* CreatorThumbprint: She has a few:
** [[HugeGuyTinyGirl Heroines who are dramatically shorter than their love interests]], either because [[TokenMiniMoe she's abnormally short]], he's abnormally tall, or both.
** [[SustainedMisunderstanding Sustained Misunderstandings]], stretched out across at least a full chapter and often as the basis of an entire arc.
** Heroines who are obsessed with one topic (Chiaki from ''The Magic Touch'': massages, Mafuyu from ''Manga/OresamaTeacher'': cute girls, Chiyo from ''[[Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun Nozaki-kun]]'': Nozaki, Nahoko from ''You Like Me'': getting a boyfriend, Akari from ''A Gentle Time'': sweet breads, etc.). The girls have something preventing them from getting what they want (often just [[HisOwnWorstEnemy their own personalities]]), which results in them being easily manipulated by their desires. They can also be expected to turn into total [[MotorMouth Motor Mouths]] when their obsessions come up.
** [[GenderBlendingTropes Playing around with gender and gender roles]].
* DenserAndWackier: A shoujo writer more dedicated to nonsense you'll not find.
* MultipleDemographicAppeal: Many of her works have legions of male fans. Tsubaki's had works with nearly identical tones and writing styles run in [[ShoujoDemographic shoujo]], [[ShonenDemographic shonen]], and {{seinen}} books, so it's debatable who's even the target and who's the [[PeripheryDemographic periphery]] anymore.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Her works would be 90% shorter [[TropesAreTools and 100% less entertaining]] if ''any'' of her characters were capable of just talking like normal people.
* ReusedCharacterDesign: Common. All three of her serialized works feature the exact same [[TallDarkAndHandsome extremely tall, black haired hunk]] design as their male leads, while Manga/OresamaTeacher went so far as to use the same design for unrelated characters ''in the same work''.
* WorldOfHam: Tsubaki is very good at drawing extremely dramatic facial expressions and writing [[MundaneMadeAwesome unnecessarily dramatic dialogue]].
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[[caption-width-right:128:Tsubaki's current Twitter profile pic: [[Manga/OresamaTeacher Super-Bun]] giving [[Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun the Tanuki]] what it deserves.]]
Izumi Tsubaki (born December 11, 1986) is a mangaka writing for the ShoujoDemographic... [[DenserAndWackier For the most part]]. She made her debut in her first year of high school after winning an honorable mention in a manga contest. [[Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun Now doesn't that sound familiar?]] Almost all of her works have been published in Magazine/HanaToYume, with the exceptions of ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'', published in [=GanGan=] Online, and the one shot ''A Gentle Time'', published in Young Animal ZERO. The fact that both of these are sources targeted at men should tell you [[MultipleDemographicAppeal just how "girly" her works usually are]].
Fellow mangaka Yoshiki Koga is her twin sister. She cites Creator/YoshihiroTogashi as her inspiration... Though how she made the jump from reading [[ShonenDemographic shonen]] action to writing shoujo comedy isn't clear.
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!! Serialized manga by Izumi Tsubaki:
* ''Oyayubi kara Romance'' (Lit. ''Romance From the Thumb'', officially localized as ''The Magic Touch'')
* ''Manga/OresamaTeacher''
* ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun''
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!! One shots by Izumi Tsubaki:
* ''Don't Hate Me''
* ''Chijimete Distance'' (Lit. ''Shorten the Distance'')
* ''Tell Me, Prince''
* ''You Like Me, Don't You?!''
* ''A Gentle Time''
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!! Tropes commonly featured in Tsubaki's works:
* CreatorThumbprint: She has a few:
** [[HugeGuyTinyGirl Heroines who are dramatically shorter than their love interests]], either because [[TokenMiniMoe she's abnormally short]], he's abnormally tall, or both.
** [[SustainedMisunderstanding Sustained Misunderstandings]], stretched out across at least a full chapter and often as the basis of an entire arc.
** Heroines who are obsessed with one topic (Chiaki from ''The Magic Touch'': massages, Mafuyu from ''Manga/OresamaTeacher'': cute girls, Chiyo from ''[[Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun Nozaki-kun]]'': Nozaki, Nahoko from ''You Like Me'': getting a boyfriend, Akari from ''A Gentle Time'': sweet breads, etc.). The girls have something preventing them from getting what they want (often just [[HisOwnWorstEnemy their own personalities]]), which results in them being easily manipulated by their desires. They can also be expected to turn into total [[MotorMouth Motor Mouths]] when their obsessions come up.
** [[GenderBlendingTropes Playing around with gender and gender roles]].
* DenserAndWackier: A shoujo writer more dedicated to nonsense you'll not find.
* MultipleDemographicAppeal: Many of her works have legions of male fans. Tsubaki's had works with nearly identical tones and writing styles run in [[ShoujoDemographic shoujo]], [[ShonenDemographic shonen]], and {{seinen}} books, so it's debatable who's even the target and who's the [[PeripheryDemographic periphery]] anymore.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Her works would be 90% shorter [[TropesAreTools and 100% less entertaining]] if ''any'' of her characters were capable of just talking like normal people.
* ReusedCharacterDesign: Common. All three of her serialized works feature the exact same [[TallDarkAndHandsome extremely tall, black haired hunk]] design as their male leads, while Manga/OresamaTeacher went so far as to use the same design for unrelated characters ''in the same work''.
* WorldOfHam: Tsubaki is very good at drawing extremely dramatic facial expressions and writing [[MundaneMadeAwesome unnecessarily dramatic dialogue]].
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