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In Otonarisann , which means a Mr/Ms Neighbor, by Osamu Kodama , Yoshio (left) and and his living-next-door neighbor Kenzou (right) find themselves bumping into each other after they lose wives by the same accident. (c) Pontaro How would they manage to keep their lives straight? What would happen to these two middle-aged men? Only text version with no illustration is available in the Kindle store of Amazon Japan .

Jiraiya 's 2019 comic, Yokozuna Sensei , which can be translated as Sir Yokuzuna  or Yokozuna Teacher roughly, is on sale again through BigGym Online Shop . (https://www.biggym.co.jp/bg-online/co-bgo-j003.html) One thing I cannot be sure is if they ships the item overseas. I remember they only explain shipping and handling fee for dwellers of Japan . (c) Jiraiya (2019) The uncensored French version of the comic by Gachimuchi-Editions is, unfortunately, out-of-stock already. This is the story of Morita Kingo a.k.a.  Sir Yokozuna (left), elementary school teacher and undefeated Sumo champion in the neighbor and three local men he encounters:  Sumiyoshi the osteopath, Urashima the painter, and Momouchi the police officer (left to right). To my understanding, in Japan, the national Sumo champion is called Yokozuna . That is how the teacher is called such in this story.

Good news! Jiraiya's comic, Tokyo 1964 is still available for free if you purchase certain Jiraiya goods, mostly t-shirts, from Nippondanji Shop (nippondanji.net). Read details from the magazine section of the site. Kazushi (left) is a wrestler and  Kirio (right), a weightlifter. Both of them are on the Japanese national team for the summer Olympics held in Tokyo . They are supposed to concentrate on each's game. The fact they are thrown into one dorm, however, does not do good in their practices, yet.  (c) Jiraiya (All images are used for informational purpose.)

The animated feature film, Flee, is running in local theaters as “Na-ui Jib-eun Eodi-inga?” The Korean title means “where is my home?”  The distributor seems to change the title from Flee or Flugt, emphasizing one of the lines of the protagonist, saying home is where he does not have to leave anymore. The young boy who used to dress up in his sisters’ clothes, has to move from country to country, but still does not feel safe because he has to lie that he lost all his family not to be evicted. The sufferings and the web of lies kept on suffocating him. But in the end he found peace thanks to his family and his partner.  The movie is very calm in delivering the journey of the protagonist. The story, however, took my breath away. Thank God I found this movie while running in theater. 

Kyoutou to Futari-kiri , which means just me and the vice principal , is another vintage erotic novel by Osamu Kodama . (c) Sansuke Yamada Original publication comes with illustrations by Sansuke Yamada . I haven't had the chance to read the original publication, so cannot be sure if the image above was actually used or not. However, they look like the ones in the illustration of the first page of the original publication. The man in the right, Yamashita , is a gym teacher in a high school, and the man in the left is a vice principal of the same school. Both of them were on a preliminary visit for the upcoming school field trip. And the vice principal makes his move bit by bit to get his hands on Yamashita . Will he succeed? If he does, how far he would go?

Recently I found numerous artworks by Sansuke and Pontaro , which were used for novels by Osamu Kodama . Some of the novels are included in the Kindle Unlimited category (Amazon Japan), which lead me to subscribe Kindle Unlimited. (c) Pontaro The image above was used for one of the novels I found at Kindle, BANKCRUPTCY , when it was published originally in print. Sadly, the works by Kodama I found at Kindle have zero illustrations. The man in the left recently had to close his company due to economic crisis, borrowed money from a bar owner, where he had frequented for years, and was seduced to have sex with him in return. He turned it down.. for a while, but after he was helped again in finding a new job at a onsen where he found gay customers and got caught by the bar owner while trying to have his first experience with a man, he couldn't find any excuse to refuse.. (Of course, he still CAN refuse.. but we know that is not how the story goes.) The man in the right, who is a CEO ...

Twitter has been an amazing source to come across amazing artists. Tooboshoo is, as you can tell from one of his works, very talented in drawing bulky and muscular men. Not sure if he is Chinese or Taiwanese. All I know is he's refering himself as Tang Bing in his instargram. Hoping to keep on seeing his works from now on. (C) Tooboshoo (picture taken from his Twitter)