Mizushima Shinobu

***Mizushima Shinobu*** (水島 忍 みずしま しのぶ) is a romance light novelist. Her works include typical romance novels, and boy's love romances. She lives in Fukuoka Prefecture and was born February 3; blood type O. Mizushima began publishing books in 1997 and has written over 150 novels.

The following are the works she has collaborated with Takashima on.

## My Brother's Anxiety

***Kahogona Oniisama*** (過保護なお兄さま 'かほごなおにいさま' lit. *My Dear Overprotective Older Brother*) is the first novel Takashima collaborated with Mizushima on. The plot is as follows:

> Ichinose Shinya is the pride of his dear older brother who is an android-like beauty, Isshin. However, his dear older brother is extremely overprotective. He worries about Shinya going to high school by train, he worries about him leaving club activities, and he protects him from this and that. One day. In Shinya's dream, his dear older brother is doing this kind of thing and that kind of thing...? Taking a bath together and washing up, sleeping together; the bonds of the Ichinose Family Brothers will deepen! We recommend you also read Mizushima's other brotherly love work, "A Radical Brother" which includes a depiction of cute Shinya's dangerous training camp short story.
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And the sequel story mentioned (*A Radical Brother*) was not drawn by Takashima, so we will not go into it here.

### Characters

* Ichinose Shinya
* Ichinose Isshin

### Publication History

*My Brother's Anxiety* was published in April 2001 by Leaf Publishing's Leaf Novels branch.

Though Leaf is no longer functioning, in 2008 several of their titles made their way on Amazon's Kindle Service via the new rights holder: Frontier Works.

However, aside from the cover image (which is the same as the printed one, but takes up the whole space of the cover), NO illustrations are included.

## ブラコン兄の受難

### Translation

Agonies of an Older Brother with a Brother Complex

## Bro's Trouble

***BURAKON Ani no Junan*** (ブラコン兄の受難 'ぶらこんあにのじゅなん' lit *Agonies of an Older Brother with a Brother Complex*) is the second novel Takashima did with Mizushima. The plot is as follows:

> A doting, dearly beloved younger brother is going out with his best friend Shunsuke!? Knowing that, Mitsugi is in a mad rush! Shunsuke's older brother Kyousuke has a similar brother complex, and has decide that in order to prevent the brothers' relationship, he needs to disturb it with his own hands to stop it. However, after saying something sharp like, "You're tempting Shunsuke, so you should stop being friends," Mitsugi ends up receiving acting guidance from Kyousuke, an actor. Additionally, Kyousuke is malicious so through colorful tricks in the acting lessons, before he knows it the lessons have become H...? Radical practical skill guidance from the popular and beautiful veteran actor.
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### Characters

* Mitsugi
* Shunsuke
* Kyousuke

### Publication History

*Bro's Trouble* was published in August of 2001 by Leaf Publishing's Leaf Novels branch.

Similar to Mizushima's previous work with Takashima, in 2008, several of the defunct Leaf's titles made their way on Amazon's Kindle Service via the new rights holder: Frontier Works.

However, aside from the cover image (which is the same as the printed one, but takes up the whole space of the cover), NO illustrations are included.

## Trivia

* The term "Buracon" is a portmanteau of the words "brother" (buraazaa) and "complex."

## References

1. ↑ http://orangebunko.shueisha.co.jp/authors/%E6%B0%B4%E5%B3%B6-%E5%BF%8D
2. ↑ http://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-253581463/
3. ↑ https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E9%81%8E%E4%BF%9D%E8%AD%B7%E3%81%AA%E3%81%8A%E5%85%84%E3%81%95%E3%81%BE-%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%95%E3%83%8E%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BA-%E6%B0%B4%E5%B3%B6-%E5%BF%8D/dp/443400316X
4. ↑ https://honto.jp/netstore/pd-book\_02011624.html
5. ↑ https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E9%81%8E%E4%BF%9D%E8%AD%B7%E3%81%AA%E3%81%8A%E5%85%84%E3%81%95%E3%81%BE-%E6%B0%B4%E5%B3%B6%E5%BF%8D-ebook/dp/B017JVIJVE/ref=sr\_1\_1?\_\_mk\_ja\_JP=%E3%82%AB%E3%82%BF%E3%82%AB%E3%83%8A&keywords=%E9%81%8E%E4%BF%9D%E8%AD%B7%E3%81%AA%E3%81%8A%E5%85%84%E3%81%95%E3%81%BE&qid=1571244186&s=digital-text&sr=1-1
6. ↑ https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E5%85%84%E3%81%AE%E5%8F%97%E9%9B%A3-%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%95%E3%83%8E%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BA-%E6%B0%B4%E5%B3%B6-%E5%BF%8D/dp/4434010824/ref=sr\_1\_2?\_\_mk\_ja\_JP=%E3%82%AB%E3%82%BF%E3%82%AB%E3%83%8A&keywords=%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E5%85%84%E3%81%AE%E5%8F%97%E9%9B%A3&qid=1571244643&sr=8-2
7. ↑ https://honto.jp/netstore/pd-book\_02048776.html
8. ↑ https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E5%85%84%E3%81%AE%E5%8F%97%E9%9B%A3-%E6%B0%B4%E5%B3%B6%E5%BF%8D-ebook/dp/B017JVIK0Y/ref=sr\_1\_1?\_\_mk\_ja\_JP=%E3%82%AB%E3%82%BF%E3%82%AB%E3%83%8A&keywords=%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E5%85%84%E3%81%AE%E5%8F%97%E9%9B%A3&qid=1571244609&s=digital-text&sr=1-1