Rinno
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| Name: | Rinno |
| Alias(es): | Idol 21 |
| Type: | doujinka |
| Fandoms: | Persona 2 |
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A Persona 2 doujinka, Rinno's works generally had a disturbing, black-humored tone, and focused on the Tatsuya/Jun pairing. The Jun she wrote tended to be psychopathic, starved for Tatsuya's attention/love, and while her Tatsuya was a little more "normal" than Jun, he too had his issues.
Rinno eventually became an officially published mangaka with the pen name Miki Rinno (凛野ミキ).
Doujinshi
An incomplete and hopefully chronological list of Rinno's doujinshi publications:
- "Suki suki daisuki! vol. 1" (2001/01)
- "You in the distance, you in nearby, and lonely here" (2001/03)
- "Suki suki daisuki! vol. 2" (2001/05)
- "Hydrangea" (2001/06)
- "Dear eyes" (2001/08)
- "A certain day" (2001/08)
- "Iie" (2001/09)
- "Ocha" (2002/02), published in a single ~20 page volume. The front and back cover are grey, with a thin, horizontal brown line running near the bottom on both covers. The name of the doujinshi, the year, and the circle are written above this line. The volume features two short stories.
The first story is called "There are days like this." Tatsuya and Jun are hanging out, with the former reading a book and the latter very, very anxious. "I'M HORNY," Jun thinks to himself, and is tormented that he can't really do anything about it... or can't he?
He tries to get Tatsuya's attention by stripping off his socks and commenting about how hot it is! ...Except that Tatsuya ignores him, not looking up from his book; he even puts on his headphones. Infuriated, and refusing to go unnoticed, Jun makes it so that Tatsuya "accidentally" stabs his index finger, to make him "feel better," Jun sucks on the pinprick wound on his finger.
Tatsuya seems to understand what Jun wants, and lets him hug him, but only for a minute-- at most two-- because he's "not in the mood." Jun complains a lot, and Tatsuya finally caves in... by passing him a box of Kleenex and promising not to watch.
The second story is called "The opposite happens too." This time it's Tatsuya who wants sex. Instead of throwing indirect hints and/or complaining, Tatsuya simply takes Jun and starts to make out with him. Jun, smug that they're in opposite positions, tries the same stunt Tatsuya had earlier, saying that they can only do this for one minute. But Tatsuya replies "Let's make it 200!" "NOT FAIR," Jun thinks to himself as Tatsuya pushes himself on him.
- "Grave of Pledge" (2002/05), published in a single ~36 page volume. The front cover is white with a black vertical line running down the middle. Towards the bottom of the cover is the title "Grave of pledge," the name of the series it's based on, the pairing, and a black-and-white photo of a toy plastic bucket in a sandbox. The back cover is entirely white.
The story is set in the characters' childhoods, back when they were playing with their masks on. One by one, the characters admit that they want to remove their masks/see each other's faces-- all except for Jun, who demands that they maintain their faces hidden. Tatsuya becomes impatient with Jun's tantrums and tears off his own mask, despite Jun's cries of "betrayer!"
After their fight, Tatsuya talks to Maya for advice, and decides to confront Jun again. He goes back to the playground and, there, rips Jun's mask off. Jun cries, worried that they won't be friends anymore, now that they've seen each other's faces. But Tatsuya, after some thinking, hugs him and tells him that it's okay because "I like your face," and that they don't need masks.
In the end notes, Rinno explains that she wanted to write a story where they're younger, and that she meant to show what happened next but didn't. She tells the reader to think that, the next day, Tatsuya makes Jun apologize to Lisa for yelling at her-- though there's no mention of apologizing to Eikichi, who also got yelled at.
This story is unusual for Rinno in that it features a relatively sweet ending and includes characters besides Jun and Tatsuya.
- "Akumu vol. 1" (late 2002)
- "Akumu ~Pink no Shiori~" (2002/09)
- "Akumu vol. 2" (2003/09)
- "He catches cold" (2002), published in a volume together with the doujinshi circle Superunknown Corp. ~15 pages.
Tatsuya becomes sick on the day he'd promised to take Jun out, and Jun "takes care" of him. But "taking care" means venting his frustration over the lost outing by making lots of noise, force-feeing Tatsuya, and dropping cold and hot objects on him.
After a while, Jun starts to sulk silently, and Tatsuya, feeling bad, tells him to go home so that he won't catch his cold. "No way," Jun refuses, and says that he knows the best way to help cure a cold-- he leans in as if to kiss Tatsuya, then, with a lighter (the same one that Tatsuya gave Jun when they were children), sets Tatsuya's hair on fire. "Are you still angry?" asks a burnt Tatsuya. "Sorry, just thought I'd try to warm you up," Jun replies, munching on some of the food he'd brought for Tatsuya.
The other half of the doujinshi, by Superunknown Corp aka Shotaro, is a different story in which Jun becomes sick and Tatsuya takes care of him. In contrast to Rinno's story, Tatsuya really *does* take good care of him, and they hug happily at one point.
- Rinno also drew the cover for a zine-style fic published in Japanese, "Nervous but Glamorous," for Syuli Tsukimura, in 2002/08. The drawing depicts Jun and Tatsuya in the rain, together holding an umbrella with giant, gaping holes. Despite the inutility of their umbrella, they are smiling.