This time I wanted to focus on author rather than the comic. Mikiyo Tsuda for over twenty years has co-authored various manga with Eiki Eiki. The two women are inseparable. They have written shoujo (manga for girls, usually with M/F romance), BL (M/M manga), yuri (F/F manga), as well as manga dealing with transgender and crossdressing characters (her first manga was a somewhat fantastic story about a transgender girl). In Western fandoms, their works are disliked due to androgynous character designs, said crossdressing themes and heavy reliance on neko/tachi stereotypes regardless of the gender of characters. The doujinshi in question is a long love scene between Shinji and Kaworu I chose to highlight a romantic trope frequently happening in manga. Four pages out of twenty, translated by Arigatomina.
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