Report pad "AOI'S FREE SPAC" featuring the design of "Aoi-chan Panic!", a representative work by Izumi Takemoto, which was serialized in Kodansha's monthly shoujo manga magazine "Nakayoshi" and gained immense popularity. It's a "Nakayoshi" appendix. Size: B5 Total: 15 pages Although it's unused, there is some yellowing on the pad due to aging. Izumi Takemoto debuted after her work "Yumemiru July Cat" (July Cat) was selected as a runner-up in the 21st Nakayoshi/Shoujo Friend Newcomer Manga Award by Kodansha and was published in the August 1981 issue of "Nakayoshi" while she was a fourth-year university student. The following year, she gained popularity with her first series, "Pineapple Mitai ♥", and broke through with "Aoi-chan Panic!", which ran for a year and a half starting in 1983. When "Anmitsu Hime," a popular manga by Shousuke Kuragane, which was serialized in Kobunsha's monthly shoujo magazine "Shoujo" from 1949 to 1955 and was repeatedly made into films and TV dramas even after its conclusion, was adapted into a TV anime by Studio Pierrot from 1986 to 1987, it was re-serialized in "Nakayoshi" as a tie-in, with Izumi Takemoto in charge of the artwork. This was not merely a comic adaptation of the anime version, but a completely different nonsense comedy, featuring an original character, "Sakuramochi Taro," the young lord of a neighboring country, as a major character. After that, she serialized "Apple Paradise" in Hobby Japan's "Comic Master EX," "Comic Master," and "RPG Magazine" from 1992 to 1997, which garnered a great response. After leaving her exclusive contract with Kodansha and becoming a freelance manga artist, her works increased in game magazines and more niche magazines, and she is currently active almost exclusively in that field. However, even after she stopped working on shoujo manga, she continues to call herself a shoujo manga artist. For fans of Showa shoujo manga, fans of Izumi Takemoto, fans of "Aoi-chan Panic!", and fans of "Nakayoshi," what do you think?