Yuriko Aoki (Born March 11, 1990 in Tokyo, Japan), is a main supporting character and mangaka in Bakuman. She was the writer of Hideout Door, and working together with Takuro Nakai. She later worked alone with serializing her works A Time of Green Leaves and What God Gave Me.... The latter of which recently got cancelled.
Aoki has short brownish blonde hair and honey-colored eyes. Aoki can be distinctively be seen with glasses when she reads and is easily identified by theAoki in a more recent chapter
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iconic beautymark under her left eye and her soft, fashionable, and strongly feminine taste in clothing which usually consists of various skirts and cardigans/sweaters. Her appearance in the manga has slightly changed with her character development to a more traditionally motherly role in manga (enlarged breasts and kinder, softer eyes).
When she is first introduced, Aoki is presented as extremely haughty, judgmental, and dogmatic, similar to the later fully introduced Aiko Iwase, but as the story progresses, she undergoes enough character development to overcome her initial attitude (revealed to be caused by a distrust of men) and show a more tender, kinder, and more agreeable character.
It isn't revealed until she begins talking to Akito Takagi that, in the beginning, she believed that men were unreliable and that, despite her previously pompous pride towards her romances, she had never dated. However, as the storyline progresses, Aoki develops a crush on Takagi and starts to trust men more. This is made most prominent when she swallows her pride to ask for help from Shinta Fukuda in order to properly draw panchira. She has also developed a romantic relationship with Kazuya Hiramura and became engaged to him.
Aoki is also shown as being very innocent especially on matters of love. This is due to her inexperience with men. The first man that she could really trust was Takagi when they agreed to help each other understand the opposite sex for their respective mangas. It is also due to this innocence that she did not realize the awkwardness of admitting to having started to like Takagi after encouraging Takagi and Miyoshi on their planned marriage. In contrast, she is able to quickly figure out Iwase's feelings for Takagi after hearing them converse.
Initially, Aoki was shown to be extremely stubborn especially about her manga stories. Her former editor, Aida, even said that she was a really challenger author to work with. Later on, after learning to respect her mangaka peers, she is shown to be more flexible as shown during her collaboration with Nakai for Hideout Door.
Aoki is willing to learn from anyone if they have anything worthwhile to teach her as well as able to stand her ground and show an enormous amount of courage in tight situations as shown when she stands up to Nakai and tells him to hit her if he's really so angry at her in Chapter 129.
First introduced as the Story King that Moritaka was recommended to draw for, she is properly introduced when Nakai meets with Ashirogi Muto and he tells them that he will be drawing with that year's story king in order to get serialized. Aoki attends To-Oh University with Iwase, the same fictional and prestigious university that L and Light from Death Note attend together.
Prior to working for Shonen Jump, Aoki worked as a mangaka for Margaret (even mentioning that she wished to go back to only drawing shoujo once more after her first series failed), explaining the strong shoujo style in her drawings that requires the help of many assistants to correct in order for her to continue writing for the shounen genre and attract more of the male audience to her stories.
She currently works alone, both writing and drawing her stories without the help of a more talented artist, aside from her assistants. Hiramaru currently courts Aoki, but the relationship doesn't seem to be serious at the moment despite hints from the author that there is a possibility that the pair may become canon and the two are only at the level of tea friends. In chapter 159, upon hearing that Aoki's series is ending, Hiramaru asks her on a date to the amusement park, where he plans to propose on the ferris wheel. Though he initially does not ask, because of fear, he drags her back on to the ferris wheel, in an attempt to try again. When on the ferris wheel for the second time, Hiramaru strips, looking for the fifty-million yen ring that he apparently lost. Because of a slip-up in conversation, Hiramaru mentions a ring, the context of which Aoki correctly infers to mean he is proposing, then telling him to do his best. Hiramaru then proposes, to which Aoki happily agrees. Aoki asks the worker if they can go again, and when on board, she explains that it was so they could ride calmly this time. When she points out Yoshida to Hiramaru, he immediately demands to get off, so he can talk, when they start arguing, Aoki, from a neutral viewpoint, suggests that they look for the ring, stating that it could be like a romantic drama. Upon hearing that the workers at the carnival found the ring, she is glad and they go and retrieve it.
Golden Future Cup She worked with Nakai on Hideout Door for the Golden Future Cup. She takes part in the meeting, held by Fukuda with Akito Takagi, Moritaka Mashiro, Eiji Niizuma, and Nakai, regarding Koogy's announcement about his manga. They read and were going to discuss each other's manga but Aoki refused, stating that her manga is the best. This leads to Niizuma stating his opinion on their mangas. He correctly predicts that two manga would tie for first and one would place third, referring to Kiyoshi Knight and Detective Trap as first and Hideout Door as third. This meeting forms the basis for what will become Team Fukuda.
When Aoki announced that she would work with Makaino Koji, Nakai is heartbroken. She tells him that
his drawings couldn't convey the world in Hideout Door. To prove his desire to work with her, he draws in front of her window after work, even during a snowstorm. She offers him an umbrella, admitting that it was her story and not his drawings that was the reason that Hideout Door wasn't serialized. She wants her story to be good enough for his drawings. Eventually, Hideout Door is serialized, and Aida becomes the pair's editor.
Aoki has short brownish blonde hair and honey-colored eyes. Aoki can be distinctively be seen with glasses when she reads and is easily identified by theAoki in a more recent chapter
Added by StrangelyNamed
iconic beautymark under her left eye and her soft, fashionable, and strongly feminine taste in clothing which usually consists of various skirts and cardigans/sweaters. Her appearance in the manga has slightly changed with her character development to a more traditionally motherly role in manga (enlarged breasts and kinder, softer eyes).
When she is first introduced, Aoki is presented as extremely haughty, judgmental, and dogmatic, similar to the later fully introduced Aiko Iwase, but as the story progresses, she undergoes enough character development to overcome her initial attitude (revealed to be caused by a distrust of men) and show a more tender, kinder, and more agreeable character.
It isn't revealed until she begins talking to Akito Takagi that, in the beginning, she believed that men were unreliable and that, despite her previously pompous pride towards her romances, she had never dated. However, as the storyline progresses, Aoki develops a crush on Takagi and starts to trust men more. This is made most prominent when she swallows her pride to ask for help from Shinta Fukuda in order to properly draw panchira. She has also developed a romantic relationship with Kazuya Hiramura and became engaged to him.
Aoki is also shown as being very innocent especially on matters of love. This is due to her inexperience with men. The first man that she could really trust was Takagi when they agreed to help each other understand the opposite sex for their respective mangas. It is also due to this innocence that she did not realize the awkwardness of admitting to having started to like Takagi after encouraging Takagi and Miyoshi on their planned marriage. In contrast, she is able to quickly figure out Iwase's feelings for Takagi after hearing them converse.
Initially, Aoki was shown to be extremely stubborn especially about her manga stories. Her former editor, Aida, even said that she was a really challenger author to work with. Later on, after learning to respect her mangaka peers, she is shown to be more flexible as shown during her collaboration with Nakai for Hideout Door.
Aoki is willing to learn from anyone if they have anything worthwhile to teach her as well as able to stand her ground and show an enormous amount of courage in tight situations as shown when she stands up to Nakai and tells him to hit her if he's really so angry at her in Chapter 129.
First introduced as the Story King that Moritaka was recommended to draw for, she is properly introduced when Nakai meets with Ashirogi Muto and he tells them that he will be drawing with that year's story king in order to get serialized. Aoki attends To-Oh University with Iwase, the same fictional and prestigious university that L and Light from Death Note attend together.
Prior to working for Shonen Jump, Aoki worked as a mangaka for Margaret (even mentioning that she wished to go back to only drawing shoujo once more after her first series failed), explaining the strong shoujo style in her drawings that requires the help of many assistants to correct in order for her to continue writing for the shounen genre and attract more of the male audience to her stories.
She currently works alone, both writing and drawing her stories without the help of a more talented artist, aside from her assistants. Hiramaru currently courts Aoki, but the relationship doesn't seem to be serious at the moment despite hints from the author that there is a possibility that the pair may become canon and the two are only at the level of tea friends. In chapter 159, upon hearing that Aoki's series is ending, Hiramaru asks her on a date to the amusement park, where he plans to propose on the ferris wheel. Though he initially does not ask, because of fear, he drags her back on to the ferris wheel, in an attempt to try again. When on the ferris wheel for the second time, Hiramaru strips, looking for the fifty-million yen ring that he apparently lost. Because of a slip-up in conversation, Hiramaru mentions a ring, the context of which Aoki correctly infers to mean he is proposing, then telling him to do his best. Hiramaru then proposes, to which Aoki happily agrees. Aoki asks the worker if they can go again, and when on board, she explains that it was so they could ride calmly this time. When she points out Yoshida to Hiramaru, he immediately demands to get off, so he can talk, when they start arguing, Aoki, from a neutral viewpoint, suggests that they look for the ring, stating that it could be like a romantic drama. Upon hearing that the workers at the carnival found the ring, she is glad and they go and retrieve it.
Golden Future Cup She worked with Nakai on Hideout Door for the Golden Future Cup. She takes part in the meeting, held by Fukuda with Akito Takagi, Moritaka Mashiro, Eiji Niizuma, and Nakai, regarding Koogy's announcement about his manga. They read and were going to discuss each other's manga but Aoki refused, stating that her manga is the best. This leads to Niizuma stating his opinion on their mangas. He correctly predicts that two manga would tie for first and one would place third, referring to Kiyoshi Knight and Detective Trap as first and Hideout Door as third. This meeting forms the basis for what will become Team Fukuda.
When Aoki announced that she would work with Makaino Koji, Nakai is heartbroken. She tells him that
his drawings couldn't convey the world in Hideout Door. To prove his desire to work with her, he draws in front of her window after work, even during a snowstorm. She offers him an umbrella, admitting that it was her story and not his drawings that was the reason that Hideout Door wasn't serialized. She wants her story to be good enough for his drawings. Eventually, Hideout Door is serialized, and Aida becomes the pair's editor.