@Anon don't have one.. I gueeeeeess I really like Jin Takemiya's characters, they're just.. really different.
Takemiya characters have a voice to them. They have a very distinct personality, and you can tell that Takemiya infuses a lot of her own characteristics or ideals in a way that makes her writing stand out. Notice how like nearly all of her characters have some sort of explanation or philosophy on their sexuality, but not in a way that makes it that big of a deal. They're usually confident, proactive, and just happen to feel one way or the other. They can bigoted, bull-headed, arrogant, insecure, rash, or hot-headed, but most of all they just feel relatable on a human level. She's not afraid of "misrepresenting" a demographic. She gets that people are people. They can be assholes, sweethearts, douchebags, lovely individuals, or loathable regardless of their preferences. It's the same reason why characters like Ripley from Alien, Sarah Connor from Terminator are fucking amazing, and characters like Alice from Resident Evil or any of the characters in the new Ghostbusters fall flat. There's a certain set of rules you heed to with a character you create, a universal law, a flexible yet mostly stagnant set of morals, opinions, ideals, beliefs, and traits. Things like disaster, love, triumph, loss, and so many other factors can change things. But ultimately there has to be a personality at the core. Whether dynamic, 3-dimensional, 2-demensional, or whatever, a character (male or female, black or white, old or young, etc.) has to be consistent to the world at hand set in motion by the creator. That is what I feel Takemiya (among many others) can do that other yuri mangakas cannot.
tl;dr Takemiya Jin is a good character writer.
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