Akiko Morishima



Akiko Morishima is a Girls Love mangaka who specializes in realistic stories about romances between adult working women. Her works include Hanjuku Joshi, Twenty Year Old Girl X Thirty Year Old Maiden, and The Conditions for Paradise.

Tropes frequently used by this author:

 * Christmas Cake: Unusually for a Girls Love author, Morishima mostly focuses on women in their late 20s and 30s, rather than Schoolgirl Lesbians.
 * Les Yay
 * May December Romance
 * Moe: Primarily the art style.
 * Slice of Life
 * Teacher Student Romance

A Lapis-Lazuli Blue Dream

 * Gayngst
 * Office Lady
 * What Did I Do Last Night

Princess of the Stars

 * Bifauxnen: Tsumugi used to be one.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tsumugi and Yui were the “prince” and “princess” of their One Gender High School.

Honey and Mustard

 * Anguished Declaration of Love:
 * Bifauxnen: Mitsuki
 * Casanova: Mitsuki is quite the charmer. Kaori even refers to her as “a regular Don Juan.”
 * Chick Magnet: Mai
 * Drowning Our Romantic Sorrows:
 * Girlish Pigtails: Mai
 * Grumpy Bear: Chiho
 * Indirect Kiss: Mitsuki kisses Mai’s hand, and then kisses Kaori’s hand to pass it along.
 * Lipstick Lesbian: Kaori
 * Perpetual Frowner: Chiho
 * Platonic Life Partners: Mitsuki and Kaori used to date and now they're best friends.
 * Ship Tease: Mitsuki and Kaori, a lot.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: Mitsuki and Kaori
 * UST: Mitsuki and Kaori

Nostalgia

 * May December Romance
 * Second Love

Soft-Boiled Fujoshi

 * Cosplay Otaku Girl: Yuria
 * Emotionless Girl: Yuria is quite deadpan.
 * Fetish: Chie likes Zettai Ryouiki, and Yuria likes to watch Chie put on her glasses.
 * Girlish Pigtails: Yuria
 * Joshikousei: Chie gets very fangirly when Yuria changes into her regular school uniform.
 * Les Yay: When Chie goes to a purikura, she ends up squeeing over all the female/female couples.
 * May December Romance: Yuria likes age-gap yuri.
 * Meganekko: Chie
 * Meido: Yuria dresses up as one.
 * Moe: Chie is a strong proponent of moe, and the manga itself debates which is more important to a fujoshi: moe or love.
 * Not What It Looks Like: Chitose hears some rather suggestive noises coming from Chie and Yuria’s room and bursts in to tell them to tone it down, only to discover that
 * Old Shame: Chie cringes when she finds out that Yuria has read all of her work, even the really old stuff.
 * Otaku Surrogate: Chie
 * Shout Out: Chie refers to her first encounter with Yuria as an “event flag.”
 * Yaoi Fangirl/Yuri Fangirl: Chie, the titular fujoshi.
 * Zettai Ryouiki: Chie squees over Yuria’s.

We’re Aiming For Love Now

 * Bridal Carry: Lalah does this to Shinobu in their backstory. She also tries doing it in the present-day, but finds that grown-up Shinobu is a little too big.
 * Cosplay Otaku Girl: Lalah
 * Girlish Pigtails: Lalah
 * Gray Rain of Depression: Inverted: Rain causes Shinobu to get depressed because
 * Heroic BSOD:
 * Implausible Hair Color: Lalah dyes her hair blonde.
 * Older Than They Look: Lalah is 29, but doesn't look it at all.
 * One Head Taller: Although in this case, the shorter one is also the older one.
 * Parental Abandonment:
 * Sempai Kohai: Shinobu still calls Lalah “sempai.”
 * Victorious Childhood Friend

Peach Taste

 * Meaningful Name: Momoko’s name means “peach girl.”
 * Romantic Two Girl Friendship: Momoko’s friends dismiss her crush on Yoshino as just an immature admiration, saying that she needs to grow up and fall in love with a guy.
 * Sempai Kohai
 * Shout Out:
 * One of Momoko’s friends has a crush on a manga character named Chasuke. She also whips out a magazine called Shounen Chump which advertises a Prince of Table Tennis on the cover.
 * Momoko also makes a reference to Takarazuka.
 * This and That: In an omake, Yoshino recaps the story as "two girls doing this and that with a lollipop".