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Daihakkutsu

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

A collection of short stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi.

1) Jigoku (地獄, Hell); Weekly Playboy 1971/9/14~21 issues
2) Nenbutsu Race (念仏レース); Manga Times 1973/11/24 issue
3) Chikadou Hotel (地下道ホテル, The Subway's Hotel); Manga Goraku 1975/4/10 issue
4) Tenohira no Machi (手のひらの街, The City in the Palm of His Hand); Manga Times 1973/12/22 issue
5) Tatsui no Kawa (殺意の川); Young Comic Zoukan 1973/9/25 issue
6) Pocket no Naka no Onna (ポケットの中の女); Young Comic Zoukan 1973/1/9 issue
7) Ai no Hanayome (愛の花嫁, Love's Bride); AX Vol.34
8) Shita Tsuzumi (舌つづみ); Comic Magazine 1979/4/19 issue
9) Iro Zange (色ざんげ); Young Comic Zoukan 1974/1/8/ issue
10) Hana Kurabe Koi Asobi (花くらべ恋遊び)
11) Ningyo wo Tsuma ni Shita Otoko (人魚を妻にした男); Manga Times 1978/9/29 issue
12) Shoufu no Senki (娼婦の戦記, Chronicle of the Whores's War); Manga Times 1973/8/25 issue
13) Kawaita Machi (乾いた街)


Tags: Anthology , Seinen

Daihakken

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Slice of Life

A collection of short stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi.

Otoko Ippatsu (男一発, Just a Man)
Haittemasu (はいってます, Occupied)
Wakaremichi (わかれみち, Forked Road)
Sasori (さそり)
Shiiku (飼育)
Tokyo Ubasuteyama (東京うばすて山, Abandon the Old in Tokyo)
Kemono Namida (けもの・なみだ)
Kotsu Kotsu Kotsu (コツコツコツ, Click Click Click)
ORIZURU -S-kun e no Tegami- (ORIZURU -S君への手紙-)
Saikai (再会)
Itoshi no Monkey (いとしのモンキー, Beloved Monkey)
Goodbye (グッドバイ)
Daihakken (大発見)

Several of the stories in this collection were published in English by Drawn & Quarterly in the collections Abandon the Old in Tokyo and Goodbye in 2009.



Tags: Anthology , Tragedy , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Historical

Munou no Hito

Also known as The Man Without Talent.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

The Man Without Talent is an unforgiving self-portrait of frustration. Swearing off cartooning as a profession, Tsuge takes on a series of unconventional jobs—used-camera salesman, ferryman, stone collector—hoping to find success among the hucksters, speculators, and deadbeats he does business with. Instead, he fails again and again, unable to provide for his family, earning only their contempt and his own. The result is a dryly funny look at the pitfalls of the creative life, and an off-kilter portrait of modern Japan.



Tags: Autobiographical , Seinen , Philosophy , Rural , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Drawing

Yoshio no Seishun

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

A young mangaka named Yoshio Tsube was drawing rental manga to support his family of seven. When he brought his new manuscript to the publisher, he met his senior, Mr. Tayama. One day, he visited Yugawara Onsen as Mr. Tayama's assistant and took a liking to the inn's maid, Yoneko. After returning to Tokyo, Yoneko visited him in Tokyo and they became close friends, but he rejected her within two months when she asked him for money.



Note: Published in Weekly Manga Sunday 1974-11-09, 1974-11-16 and 1974-11-23.

Tags: Drawing , Heterosexual