Image Content Team
Aiko Tanaka
Anime & Character Content Writer · Osaka, Japan
Writes the anime and character galleries — knowing which arc, which outfit and which art style a fan actually means when they search for a name.
Part of the Image Content team, led by Vanya Rose
About Aiko
Aiko writes for the most particular audience on the image side of the business: anime fans. Somebody searching for a character profile picture usually knows exactly which season, which outfit and which art style they want, and they can tell within a second whether a gallery was put together by someone who has watched the show.
She grew up reading manga in Osaka and started writing fan wiki summaries long before she wrote anything for a client. That background is why her galleries are grouped the way fans think — by arc, mood and character pairing — rather than by whatever order the images arrived in.
Three years in, she plans and writes character galleries and checks every name, title and spelling against the source.
What she works on
- Anime and character PFP galleries
- Character and series research
- Matching and couple picture sets
- Section planning by arc and style
- Name, title and spelling checks
Background
How she got here
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Media and Cultural Studies, with a focus on Japanese popular culture and fan communities.
Early work
Fan wiki editing and episode summaries — learning how fans name, sort and argue about the things they love.
Into image content
Character galleries and captions for image sites, where accuracy about a series matters as much as the pictures.
Now
Anime and character galleries for client sites at Infinity Linkers, as part of the Image Content team.
Her team
Image Content team
Aiko reports to Vanya Rose, Head of Image Content. She works most closely with Mia Laurent on pop-culture sets and hands finished galleries to Maya Ellison for the image SEO pass before they publish.
Approach
Write it the way fans would
Aiko’s rule is simple: if a long-time fan of the series would wince at a caption, it gets rewritten. Getting a character’s name, outfit or era wrong costs more trust than any gallery can win back, so she checks before she writes, not after.
Away from work she sketches, collects vintage anime art books and spends far too long choosing her own profile pictures.