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Tanaka Yutaka is a mangaka responsible for a number of titles, the most well-known being the short story collection ''[[Virgin Night (Manga)|Virgin Night]]'', ''[[My Lovely Ghost Kana (Manga)|My Lovely Ghost Kana]]'', ''[[Ai-Ren]]'', and ''[[Mimia-Himehime]]''. His work is generally considered and categorized as [[Hentai]] on indexes, [[Needs More Love|which may restrict his potential audience]], but truthfully what he writes is [[Slice of Life]] [[Porn Withwith Plot]] 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 [[Can't Spit It Out]]-itis and other [[Poor Communication Kills]]. Despite some dark back-stories and bittersweet moments (and more than occasional severe [[Mood Whiplash]]) 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, ([[Needs More Love|and you probably haven't]]) the above titles are excellent starting points <ref>check the Hentai entry for a scale of explicitness for your preference</ref> and can often be found as scanlations on various manga sites and are most certainly worth reading.
 
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* [[Angst? What Angst?]]: [[Ai-Ren]] and [[My Lovely Ghost Kana (Manga)|My Lovely Ghost Kana]] 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.▼
 
=== Tanaka-san is known for: ===
 
▲* [[Angst What Angst]]: [[Ai-Ren]] and [[My Lovely Ghost Kana (Manga)|My Lovely Ghost Kana]] 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.
* [[Better Than It Sounds]]: As mentioned, his stories are often categorized as [[Hentai]] but, thanks to his amazing characters, storytelling and frank and unapologetic emotional portrayals of the most intimate aspects of love, bear little resemblance to most hentai fare, aside from great sex.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: He is very likely to set you up and then pull the rug out from under you in either direction. See under [[Mood Whiplash]].
* [[Boy Meets Girl]]: Or Boy has already Met Girl.
* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: His stories are packed with heartwarming. As the entry under [[Virgin Night (Manga)|Virgin Night]] says, this is erotica that wears its heart on its sleeve.
** For Tanaka-san himself, the afterword he wrote for [[My Lovely Ghost Kana (Manga)|My Lovely Ghost Kana]]. 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.
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: Nobody gets a free ride, and they get what they work for. Honesty and trust pay off in the end.
* [[Ecchi]]: Certainly, even in his tamer work.
* [[Genre Busting]]: [[Ai-Ren]] and [[My Lovely Ghost Kana (Manga)|My Lovely Ghost Kana]] are really hard to categorize, other than [[Slice of Life]] in only the most superficial sense.
* [[Good People Have Good Sex]] and grow closer for it.
* [[Hentai]]: [[Virgin Night (Manga)|Virgin Night]] is on the explicit side of the scale; [[Ai-Ren]] is barely R-Rated; [[My Lovely Ghost Kana (Manga)|My Lovely Ghost Kana]] is somewhere in between. So far, ''[[Mimia-Himehime]]'' is distinctly G-Rated.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: 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 [[Naughty Tentacles|tentacles]].
{{quote| '''[[My Lovely Ghost Kana (Manga)|Daikichi:]]''' "The deeper we fall in love, the more we make love... with more and more sex... comes lots of happiness."}}
* [[Minimalism]]: His regular dialogue and narration is often broken up by short, striking, almost haiku-like paragraphs that come across just as poetically in translations.
{{quote| [[Virgin Night (Manga)|You shivered when we kissed.]] You had sparkles in your eyes. I was so excited too. Because I ... I fell in love with you.<br />
'''[[Ai-Ren|Ai]]''': I'll be here dreaming... with lots of stars ♥ ... Smiling while dreaming... waiting for you, whom I love.<br />
[[My Lovely Ghost Kana (Manga)|Kana]], in her summer clothes, shone in the golden light of sunset. / And Kana and I / waited patiently under the red sky / for the first twinkling of stars. }}
** If you read some of the post-chapter notes by the translators, the minimalist parts were actually the hardest parts to translate. It's a minor [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] in translation for managing to keep the spirit of the text intact across the language barrier.
* <s> [[Mood Whiplash]]</s> [[Mood Whiplash|Mood Compound Neck Fracture]]: He is really, ''really'' good at hitting you with a sudden punch of [[Nightmare Fuel]], [[Tear Jerker]] or [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] when you are least expecting it, even when you think you are expecting it. Worthy of being the patron saint of the trope. (See the entry under [[My Lovely Ghost Kana (Manga)|My Lovely Ghost Kana]] for an example.)
* [[No Export for You]]: If you don't read Japanese, you will have to find scanlations. Adult-only official translations probably won't be seen any time soon.
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: Avoided hard. Only invoked to show how poor communication is ''bad'' for relationships, and how his characters avoid or overcome said problems and grow closer by learning to be honest and open with each other.
** And not coincidentally, how honesty and trust averts poor communication from the get-go.
* [[Porn Withwith Plot]]: With heavy emphasis on plot and characters, but he does not shy away from showing ''all'' aspects of a relationship.
** (And let's be honest, [[Truth in Television|many couples in serious relationships do actually have sex.]])
* [[Power of Love]]: The central idea of most of his stories is that, if you have love, you can overcome anything.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: You can expect at least one amazing two-page spread in most of his stories along with plenty of gorgeous background panels.
* [[Signature Style]]: See the minimalism entry.
** ''[[Mimia-Himehime]]'' takes his love for minimalist, poetic writing and [[Scenery Porn]] and cranks it [[Up to Eleven]], resulting in something of transcendanttranscendent beauty.
* [[Slice of Life]]: Take two people, put them together, show us how and how much they love each other.
* [[Sweet Dreams Fuel]]: 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."
* [[Tear Jerker]]: If you are going to read [[Ai-Ren]] or [[My Lovely Ghost Kana (Manga)|My Lovely Ghost Kana]], keep a box of tissues handy. There will be plenty of opportunity for both the sad and the happy kinds of tears.
* [[The Power of Love]]: His characters [[Earn Your Happy Ending|find happiness]] and/or peace with each other, sometimes even [[Angst? What Angst?|in the face of]] the [[After the End|absolute]] [[Killed Off for Real|worst]] [[Driven to Suicide|things]] the world wants to throw at them.
 
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