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, 20-Year-Old Girl X 30-Year-Old Maiden, and The Conditions for Paradise.

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

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

Anguished Declaration of Love: Chiho to Mai
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: Mitsuki and Kaori go get hammered at a bar after they both get turned down by Mai.
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

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 the two of them were just working on a porny doujin together. In Chie’s own words, “it’s just the story that’s dirty!”
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.

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 it reminds her of the day her mother deserted her.
Heroic BSOD: Shinobu
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: Shinobu suffered this when she was a kid.
Sempai-Kohai: Shinobu still calls Lalah “sempai.”
Victorious Childhood Friend

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".