Nanako Tsujimura is a Japanese author. Her debut novel, Spiral Spacetime Labyrinth, was published in 2015. She is best known for creating The Case Files of Jeweler Richard series, which received an anime adaptation in the winter of 2020 and currently has ten novels, a fanbook, and a short story collection. It is also Tsujimura's first series to receive an English translation, licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment.
Her website can be found here
, where she keeps a blog on which she frequently publishes short stories related to her works. Tsujimura is very much a Teasing Creator and loves to hint about what she's writing on Twitter.
Tsujimura is a former world history teacher and is fond of travel. Many of her books include travel and world history as a heavy element, and Unforgettable K is set in Italy, where she studied abroad.
Novels in Order of Publication Date:
- Spiral Spacetime Labyrinth (2015)
- The Case Files of Jeweler Richard (2015)
- The Case Files of Jeweler Richard: Dancing Emeralds (2016)
- The Case Files of Jeweler Richard: Angel's Aquamarine (2016)
- The Case Files of Jeweler Richard: Lapis Lazuli of Guidance (2017)
- The Case Files of Jeweler Richard: Peridot of Blessings (2017)
- The Case Files of Jeweler Richard: Tanzanite of Rebirth (2018)
- Magna Civitas Doll Professor And Machine Boy (2018)
- The Case Files of Jeweler Richard: The Ruby Queen and the Sea of Betrayal (2018)
- The Case Files of Jeweler Richard: Summer Gardens and Golden Love (2018)
- The Case Files of Jeweler Richard: Coral of Encounters (2019)
- The Case Files of Jeweler Richard Fanbook: Étranger's Jewelery Box (2019)
- The Case Files of Jeweler Richard: Eternal Amber (2020)
- Unforgettable K The Damphir Consumes Darkness (2020)
- The Shape Of Love Magna Civitas (2021)
- The Case Files of Jeweler Richard: Fragments of Brilliance (2021)
- Our Curtain Rises (2021)
- The Case Files of Jeweler Richard: The Boy and the Pearl Dresser (2022)
- The Case Files of Jeweler Richard: The Glass Masquerade (2023)
Common Tropes in her work:
- Crossover: Tsujimura does a yearly thread on Twitter crossing over characters from all her various works for fun. She also announced a crossover short story to be published in Cobalt Magazine between The Case Files of Jeweler Richard and Unforgettable K.
- Language Equals Thought: Tsujimura spends a lot of time discussing the way some things can only be discussed and thought about in one language or another.
- Homoerotic Subtext: Tsujimura has written multiple male pairings as main characters, with heavy Ambiguously Bi or Ambiguously Gay interpretations.
- Platonic Life-Partners: Tsujimura's works tend to feature a lot of duo-pairings for main characters, who are usually not in an explicit relationship, although often they often contain romantic implications.
- The Power of Language: Tsujimura loves to use this one. Many of her characters are Omniglots.
- Shown Their Work: Tsujimura does a lot of research in advance, leading to Author Filibusters on things like the agriculture of Sri Lanka.
- That Came Out Wrong: Tsujimura seems to like characters who accidentally say things they don't understand the meaning of.
