User talk:Usagi Tsukino

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Tsukino Family Lore

The Tsukino family have been involved in government since the Meiji Restoration, and prior to that were involved in law and order as ministry officials. Over the course of their family history, they have had no less than four members appointed to the House of Peers (now the House of Councilors) and fourteen members elected to the House of Representatives. For eight unbroken generations, all the male members of the Tsukino family studied law at Nihon University College of Law, one of the oldest law schools in Japan... until Kenji.

In 2005, rather than continuing to focus on his elite high school education in preparation for law school, Kenji instead managed to get an internship at an an, a weekly women's fashion magazine that was and still is one of the most popular in Japan. From there, he fell in love with photography, style, fashion, reporting and the work of maintaining popularity and sales in the realm of magazines. He broke the heart of his grandfather, the Tsukino Patriarch, Norimasa Tsukino, by choosing to go to school for journalism and promptly continuing to secure his career path in the realms of fashion photography and editing. There was even more outcry when he got married at 21 to his just barely turned 20 girlfriend, Ikuko Takagi now Tsukino, and announced they were having a baby.

Kenji was the favorite grandson though, so he was not cut off, though there was and still is plenty of grumbling about him breaking the family line, and a significant amount of interest in Shingo picking up that dropped legacy. Kenji has done very well for himself - he is currently Editor in Chief for POPEYE Magazine, despite his young age of 36 - and doesn't mind the family grumbling.

Starting in 2021, Kenji started to truly sympathize with his father and grandfather's disappointment, because Usagi, at age 12, started to rebel against his keen eye for fashion (and habit of getting her roped into photoshoots when work needed spare models) by dressing near exclusively in early 90s fashions. How could his precious daughter betray her loving Papa this way! This is just like when he broke generations of tradition!

(It is not. His grandfather is at least glad that Kenji sympathizes, though.)

Nakagawa-Takagi-Sakai Family Connection

Usagi and Chiyo are second cousins, related through the Nakagawa family line, through their grandmothers, Maiko Nakagawa (Usagi's grandmother) and Meiko Nakagawa (Chiyo's grandmother). Maiko married into the Takagi family, while Meiko married into the Sakai family.

The Nakagawa, Takagi, and Sakai families are all artisan crafts families, though The Sakai family have worked with the artisan craft of wagashi making for generations, with Meiko's husband being the proprietor of Nounamu Sweets.