Shigeo is a high strung elementary school student living with his mother. His only concern is getting ahead in life by doing well in school.... more>> He despises his father Hanao (who is separated from them), who's an idealistic free spirit and a kid at heart, infatuated with the sport of baseball. Shigeo's mother forces Shigeo to take time to visit his father, and so begins Shigeo's lessons that there's more to life than excelling academically (courtesy of his very childish father). <<less

Collection of special chapters that were published for 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Relief Effort Project.

This is a compilation of oneshots that includes:... more>>

1) Untitled

2) Before Dawn

3) Alfalfa

4) 4:30 PM, Sunday//6:30, Afternoon, Sunday

Part 1 - Summer Memories

Part 2 - A Girl in the Brilliant World of a Boy's Daydream

Part 3 - Coming Home

5) The Typical Day and Melancholy of Super-Imaginative A-ko

6) How to Spend a Day Off

7) 17

8) What a Wonderful World

9) Tokyo

10) The End of the World

11) Snakeman and the Great Space-time War <<less

Nawoki Karasawa is one of the longer-active and more prestigious names in the typically small time, lesser-known world of gag manga. In a genre where art skill is second to just about everything else, Karasawa's dialogue is hilariously sharp and witty.... more>>

A gag parody of Shinji Nagashima's immortal "Mangaka Zankoku Monogatari" (Karasawa's title only differs by adding "Chou" (super) to "Zankoku"), a manga about the dreams, ambitions, and suffering of a group of bright young mangaka. Karasawa brilliantly takes the piss out of just about everything involved with being a mangaka. It's lewd, raunchy, endlessly cynical and laugh-out-loud funny.

Originally published in Ikki and the Big Comic Spirits special issue "Casual" from 2000 to 2003, it was collected into a single book in 2005. <<less