Line #9 Creator/ArinaTanemura


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3	A mangaka who primarily works on {{shojo}} manga. Born on March 12, 1978, she made her pro debut in 1996 with the one-shot ''The Style of the Second Love'' (2番目の恋のかたち, ''Niban-me no Koi no Katachi''), which was later reprinted in the one-shot compilation manga ''Kanshaku-dama no Yuu'utsu''. Tanemura later gained fame less than a year later with the manga ''Manga/{{ION}}'', a high-school romance (a common staple in the shojo genre) with a supernatural twist.
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5	Her works usually contain MagicalGirl stories (with a few exceptions) and extremely cute drawings that are deemed too saccharine for some, juxtaposed against frequently dark and angsty storylines that deal with issues like [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]], {{parental abandonment}}, and {{attempted rape}}. Tanemura's distinctive art style was intended to be difficult to animate, but this has not stopped ''Manga/PhantomThiefJeanne'' and ''Manga/FullMoon'' from being adapted into anime series.
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7	Most of Tanemura's works were originally serialized in the shoujo magazine ''Magazine/{{Ribon}}''. After the end of ''Manga/SakuraHimeTheLegendOfPrincessSakura'', Tanemura left ''Ribon'' and has since become a freelance artist. Several of her works after 2012 are published in different magazines and publishers.
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9	She is a known fan of {{JPop}} music, especially Music/HelloProject artists and Creator/MaayaSakamoto. This factor eventually turned her into a PromotedFangirl, as she would later provide the character designs for the multimedia idol project ''VideoGame/Idolish7''.
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11	As of 2015, Tanemura also releases doujinshi under the pseudonym [[http://twitter.com/meguro_arina Meguro Teikoku]].
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13	!!Works:
14	[[index]]
15	* ''Manga/{{ION}}'' (1997)
16	* ''Manga/ShortTemperedMelancholic'' (1998; a collection of one-shots)
17	* ''Manga/PhantomThiefJeanne'' (1998-2000)
18	* ''Manga/TimeStrangerKyoko'' (2000-2001)
19	* ''Manga/FullMoon'' (2002-2004)
20	* ''Manga/TheGentlemensAlliance'' (2004-2008)
21	* ''Manga/MistressFortune'' (2008)
22	* ''Manga/SakuraHimeTheLegendOfPrincessSakura'' (2008-2012)
23	* ''Fudanjuku Monogatari'' (2011)
24	* ''Neko to Watashi no Kinyoubi'' (2013-2015)
25	* ''Manga/IdolDreams'' (2013-present; Tanemura's first {{josei}} manga)
26	* ''VideoGame/ToukenRanbu Gakuen''
27	* ''Akuma ni Chic x Hack''
28	* ''Shunkan Ryle'' -- As the writer
29	* ''Alice Closet'' -- character designer
30	* ''VideoGame/Idolish7'' -- character designer
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33	!!Associated Tropes in Her Works:
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35	* ArtEvolution:
36	* BreakTheCutie: Her longer works really like to pile on the angst.
37	* ContractualPurity: [[https://yattatachi.com/arina-tanemura-interview In an interview in 2018]], Tanemura discussed that when she was still working with ''Ribon'', she wasn't allowed to portray her characters in R-18 situations. After she left ''Ribon'', she did release R-18 doujinshi of ''Manga/PhantomThiefJeanne'' and ''Manga/FullMoon'' for a while.
38	* CrazyJealousGuy: Her male love interests tend to be on the possessive side.
39	* EarnYourHappyEnding: Her works often end up as these after her characters going through BreakTheCutie moments.
40	* FateDrivesUsTogether
41	* InformedAttractiveness
42	* MagicalGirl
43	** OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Some of her female leads.
44	* ThePowerOfLove
45	* OnlySixFaces: Boy oh boy does she suffer from this one. But the amount of pretty makes up for it. A chart showing notable differences in faces (particularly eye sizes and shapes) can be seen [[http://i.imgur.com/IPqhS.jpg here]].
46	* {{Shoujo}}
47	* YaoiFangirl: Under her pseudonym, she has released BoysLove doujinshi for other famous works such as ''Franchise/UtaNoPrinceSama'' and ''VideoGame/ToukenRanbu''.

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