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Cool-Kyou Shinsha (クール教信者) is a Japanese mangaka. He has over a dozen manga series and contributions to manga anthologies. Some of Cool's most popular published works, I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying, Komori-san Can't Decline!, Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, and Peach Boy Riverside have anime adaptations.
His works mostly focus around Slice of Life escapades between eccentric (but usually grounded) individuals as they go about their day-to-day lives and interact with one another.
He has a decent online presence with an Official Website
, Twitter, and Pixiv. He's also cataloged on MyAnimeList.net and has a wiki.
Regarding his name, kyoushinjya (教信者) is the term used for religious believers: Kirisutokyoushinja/CHRISTkyoushinja (キリスト教信者) roughly equates to "Christ Faith devotee" or "Christian." This makes Kuurukyoushinja/COOLkyoushinsha (クール教信者) something like, "believer in the Religion of Cool" or "Coolian," with his own website going with "Coolist".
Works
Series and One-Shots
- Boku no Migite wa o Sake ni Natta
- ChiChi Chichi
- Cluster of Life (Inochi no Katamari)
- Diotei Manual: Kamisama-tachi no Renai Daikou (Diotei Manual: Agent of the Gods' Love)note
- Fukumaden
- FullMaPla (Furumapura)
- Happy Days
- Horobi Club
- I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying (Danna ga Nani o Itteiru ka Wakaranai Ken)
- Metsuko ni Yoroshiku
- My Girlfriend Without Wasabi (Sabinuki Kanojo)
- The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace (Heion Sedai no Idaten-tachi)note
- Kiri no Iitokarade
- Komori-san Can't Decline! (Komori-san wa Kotowarenai!)
- Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid (Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon)
- Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Kanna's Daily Life (Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon: Kanna no Nichijou)note
- Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Elma's Office Lady Diary (Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon: Elma OL Nikki)note
- Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon: Lucoa wa Boku no xx Desu (Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Lucoa is my xx)note
- Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Fafnir the Recluse (Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon: Okomorigurashi no Fafnir)note
- Mononoke Sharing
- Ojojojo
- Paranoia Cage
- Peach Boy Riversidenote
- RaButa (LovePig)
- Usagi no Frau (Frau Rabbit)
- How Clumsy you are, Miss Ueno (Ueno-san wa Bukiyou) Anthology Comic
- Interspecies Reviewers Comic Anthology: Darkness
- Is the Order a Rabbit? (Gochuumon wa Usagi desu ka?) Anthology Comic
- Maoyu Anthology Comic
- Monster Musume: I ♥ Monster Girls (Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou 4-Koma Anthology)
Tropes associated with Cool-kyou Shinsha includes:
- Animal Motif: Both his main Author Avatar and mascot are rabbits.
- Author Appeal:
- He likes having Odd Couples in their stories. For example, Ojojojo, I Can't Understand and Kobayashi's Dragon Maid all revolve around weird couples. Ojojojo has a Rich Bitch and a spaced out weirdo falling in love, I Can't Understand focuses around an Otaku and his Everyman wife, and Kobayashi is focused on a master-servant relationship between a software engineer and her superpowered dragon-in-human-form lesbian maid.
- A lot of his Pixiv entries involves underage boys (or age-regressed men) harassed by women with big breasts. This occasionally leaks into his more mainstream works, it's just not explicitly shown onscreen (or gets interrupted before anything can happen).
- Attention Deficit Creator Disorder: He often has multiple ongoing manga running at the same time, at one point with as many as 11 at once. The fact that he has a rather simplistic art style definitely helps with the workload.
- Author Avatar: Two of them. An overweight rabbit with glasses for his regular works, and a horned walrus for his Hentai.
- The Cameo: Given the shared universe between all his works, it's not uncommon to find characters wandering around in the background of other series.
- Central Theme: Each of his works likes to focus on couples and how they interact and get along with one another. Many of these couples are far from conventional, as well. In addition, themes like racism, class anxiety and the expectations of society are frequent.
- Inconsistent Spelling: Romanization method aside, it seems some translators do not realize what his Pen Name means and how to decompose it grammatically, such that Anime News Network lists him as COOL Kyoushinsha, while Seven Seas Entertainment writes it as Coolkyoushinja, no space.
- Mark of the Supernatural: If a female character in one of his works has a huge bust, it's a fair bet that they aren't human or have some sort of supernatural ability.
- Only Six Faces: He tends to draw (adult) male characters the same way in every manga, though a few stand out with completely unique designs (contrast Nozomu, Mr. Jigokumeguri, Kazu, Takiya, and Fafnir with characters like Hajime, Gramps, Mr. Magatsuchi, Kimun Kamuy, and Azad). Meanwhile, his female characters (at least within the same manga) tend to have wildly varying designs.
- Signature Style: Almost all of his stories start off as Slice of Life or romance stories about Odd Couples (usually with some level of magic involved), before throwing in a Drama Bomb near the end.
- Slice of Life: His main genre, with a dash of romance on the side.
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl:
- Most of his series will usually have at least one romantic paring where the girl is significantly taller than her male Love Interest.
- I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying is one of his more prominent aversions, featuring a relatively normal-sized heterosexual couple. It also features two Inversions: Tanaka is married to a very tall man, and Nozomu, slightly above-average, is married to the Fun Sized Rino.
- The 'Verse: Most, if not all of his works take place in the same universe.
- Yonkoma: Some of his works are in this format, like Ojojojo and My Girlfriend Without Wasabi.
