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Mitsuya Maeno
Plot

Mitsuya Maeno (前野 蜜也 Maeno Mitsuya) is an editor at Monthly Girls' Romance. He is Yukari Miyako's current editor, and the previous editor of Umetarou Nozaki.

In his high school days, he was classmates with Ken Miyamae.

Appearance[]

Maeno has light brown eyes and ash brown hair, with his bangs parted down the middle.

He wears trendy, cool-looking clothing, the kind that tends to appear in fashion magazines.

Personality[]

Maeno is a somewhat narcissistic person, constantly taking selfies of himself and posting them on his blog. He is also unreliable, often taking an extremely long time to reply to messages and not showing up to meetings on time. Furthermore, he tends to incorporate his own personal life into work, such as attending mixers and work appointments at the same time by speaking to two different tables, and making Miyako add tanuki to all of her manga series regardless of her own opinion. He tends to change the title names of mangas to his liking, regardless of the mangaka's thoughts.

He is also quite thick-headed, not being able to pick up subtle hints, such as Yukari telling him to not call her "sensei" when she didn't want Ryousuke Seo to find out that she was a mangaka. He agreed but as a result, spoke to her about her manga deadline, still revealing the fact that she was a mangaka.

Maeno hardly shows any seriousness towards his job as an editor, but is able to at least recommend ideas for storyboards. However, when said ideas appear in the manga draft, he exclaims that his ideas were stolen from him. As a result, he is hated by many manga authors working under him. A majority of them dread him becoming their editor again and beg Ken to not send them back to Maeno.

Relationships[]

Umetarou Nozaki[]

Nozaki strongly dislikes Maeno, harboring a grudge against him and wanting to stay away from him as much as possible. This is because Maeno had taken an extremely long time to reply to Nozaki's messages, even going overseas and not notifying Nozaki about it. There are also occasions where Maeno proposes ideas that Nozaki can use for his manga storyboards, but when he uses it, Maeno exclaims that Nozaki used his ideas.

Maeno's Photos of the amusement park

Maeno's photos of the "amusement park backgrounds"

In one past instance, Maeno said that he had photos of amusement park backgrounds for Nozaki's previous request, but for a large majority of the photos, Maeno was in them and obstructed the view of the actual background. This may hint at least some form of competency from Maeno, as he still attempted to fulfill Nozaki's request even though he wasn't in charge of Nozaki anymore.

Ken Miyamae[]

Ken absolutely despises Maeno. Despite this, Maeno is under the impression that they are good friends. The two have known each other throughout their high school and college years. Not many details are known about their relationship, but it is extremely likely that Ken is unconsciously stressed out by being around Maeno. Whenever Maeno is gone for periods of time, Ken loses weight and reverts back to his slim figure, but instantaneously gains weight again upon Maeno's return.

Ken's weight difference

Ken's weight difference throughout the years

During their high school reunion, when former classmates ask both of them about their occupations, they believe that Maeno is more competent than Ken. This is due to Maeno having many girlfriends in the past, and thus seeming more like the kind of man that would appear in a shoujo manga. It is also during this reunion that they observe the weight difference of Ken when he is and isn't around Maeno.

Although they work under the same serialized magazine, Maeno is Ken's senpai by two years, but is extremely incompetent in regards to their work.

Yukari Miyako[]

Maeno's blog

Maeno's blog and Yukari's manuscript

Maeno losing the manuscript

Maeno losing Yukari's manuscript

Maeno is an extremely unreliable editor when it comes to Yukari. This is shown through incidents such as Maeno losing her manuscript and storyboard, and changing the title of her manga series often, making her original title as a subtitle. He has created a blog that was originally for the purpose of information on Yukari's manga, but it is mostly comprised of selfies of him in the office with her manuscript somewhere in the background.

Despite Maeno's carelessness, Yukari maintains a neutral feeling toward him, neither disliking or liking him, but only finding him annoying for making her include too many tanuki in her manga. He has been her editor for two years. His advice to her is absolutely terrible, and mostly consists of him telling her to include more animals if not tanuki. At one point, Maeno even advised her to include elephants or giraffes somewhere in the background of her story.

Etymology[]

Mitsuya (蜜也): Mitsu (蜜) means "honey" and Ya (也) means "also".

Maeno (前野): Mae (前) means "previous" and No (野) means "field, wilderness".

Trivia[]

  • Maeno likes lighthearted, slightly dumb women with big breasts.
  • Maeno and Ken are the same age, but due to Ken having to retake his college entrance exam, Maeno is technically two years his senior.
  • Maeno's hobbies include attending mixers, drinking at parties, and inspecting gravure pages in other editing departments.
  • Maeno's favorite foods are trendy foods, while he does not dislike any food in general.
  • Maeno has a younger sister, a mother, and father.
  • The longest amount of time Maeno had ever taken to reply to Nozaki's messages was one year.
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