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I believe someone's trying to hinder this investigation.
Back out now
Somebody pushed you?
I want Ito-kun off this investigation.
Did you hear about Nanbu-san's death?
It was suicide, right?
You're going... way beyond the task that was requested of you.
This time, it seems you're fixated over this case.
Nanbu-san's death doesn't have anything to do with the "Dropper For Hire", right?
If unfortunate conditions piled up on Nanbu-san...
...it may be that he thought it be easier if he died.
Hey, you! What're you doing over there?
Did you see the person who fell from here?
He was doing this... when he fell backwards.
Show will start now! Gather around. Show will start now~!
Mister, mizuame please!
Okay, that'll be 10 yen.
Me too!
Okay! 10 yen please.
"Shimoyama Incident"...
...the story of the mysterious disappearance of the President of the National Railways...
...will now begin~!
"The president has disappeared!?"
The time was 12:20 am.
A downward cargo train was heading for the tracks under a railways viaduct...
Rejoice with those who rejoice...
...mourn with those who mourn.
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RESONANCE
"RESONANCE"
Mizuno Yuki MATSUSHITA NAO Daiji Shinji FURUTA ARATA
How was it?
Not too bad.
Horio Satoshi TSUDA KANJI Ito Shota SHIRAISHI SHUNYA
Even though it's not exactly what I ordered, it's also good as a one-shot manga.
Watanuki Yoshimasa KONNO HIROKI Shono Takayuki FUKE NORIMASA
That's a relief.
Well, the situation the hero is in right now is pretty tough...
Tsukamoto Shusuke (Recall) HASHIZUME JUN Nanbu Kayoko (Recall) YAGI AKIKO Watanabe Haruko KATAOKA REIKO
But then, all you can do now is to enrich the content as you go along.
Tamura Kei MIZUHASHI KENJI Ishida Yoichi TANABE KENICHIRO
Takei Hayato KANAI YUTA Kawabata Tetsuji HASHIMOTO ICHIRO
Got it. Thank you.
Ijuin Ryunosuke NUKUMIZU YOICHI Takeuchi Kosuke MAENO TOMOYA
Miyawaki Aki YOSHIZAWA RIE Ogi Toshinori ABE SHOHEI
Homeless Man (Recall) AGATA MORIO Lady Witness (Recall) NAGAI TOSHIE
Mizuno Yuki
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Hello.
I found a new witness for Nanbu-san's case.
Ajima Fumiya (Photo) BENGAL Yuki's Mom (Recall) FUJITA YUMIKO
Apparently, she saw the moment when Nanbu-san fell from the building.
Menjo Keizo (Recall) TANAKA MIN Ajima Yoshiko MAYA KYOKO
Really?
I'll continue to investigate further.
Ogi Toshikatsu HIRAIZUMI SEI Nanbu Masaharu IWAMATSU RYO
And I'll also be meeting with Nanbu-san's mistress later on.
Understood. Good luck.
Boss!
Why are you here? I told you to get some rest!
I'm positive that the culprit who shoved me down is in this company.
What did you say?
I can find him.
Please! Let me continue with the investigation.
All the more risky it is. Please go home.
"I'd rather get hurt than being alone."
"If I give up now... I'll regret it forever!"
"I'm going!"
What is that?
Luffy's words.
"One Piece" Vol. 59 Chapter 584 and Vol. 55 Chapter 540.
If I give up now, I'll regret it forever!!!
I'm going!!
They're my favorite lines.
Hello.
Yes?
I'm Mizuno of "EK Research". Nice to meet you.
Tsukamoto-san called me up about you.
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It's messy but... come on in.
Nanbu's Mistress Watanabe Haruko
I'm going to vacate this place in two days, and move back to my hometown.
I'm having some pain here, you know?
Is that so.
Nanbu-san's gone now too...
I thought, I already had enough of Tokyo.
Um...
I don't know what you heard from someone but...
He and I were never lovers.
We were more like best friends... or maybe comrades in arms?
Nah... I guess I was his sounding board.
What was he like?
He was terrible when drunk...
...but he was really nice to me.
When was the last time you saw him?
Three days before his death.
Nanbu-san would always be either ranting, or crying...
...or praising himself...
At that time, he was in his "praising" mode, like he was feeling inspired.
Inspired?
At first, he was ecstatic...
But after awhile, when he got plastered...
...he next started ranting to me about those guys.
Those guys?
First...
...it was his subordinates from his work.
The way things are right now...
...they have no place in my plans.
How can I beat them up into shape...
It sounds like he wasn't bad-mouthing them...
More like, he was nurturing them.
Then I think he talked about the company's higher-ups.
That they're really rotten.
But he said he now had a chance to shake them up.
"I'll shove reality down their throats, and all my conditions will be met!"
He said that he had a chance to shake things up?
Yes.
By the way, was there anything recently that made you think, "This person has changed"?
No.
Is that so.
By the way...
I heard his motto.
He asked me what I think is an editor's most important task.
When I answered, to increase the number of copies, he said, no.
What was it then?
Ito-chan.
Ouch!
Oh, sorry!
You okay?
Yes.
Don't over exert yourself, okay?
I won't.
Quick Reference Chart of Magazines' No. of Copies and Return Rate
Our return rate is clearly decreasing. And our sales rate has gone up.
While those from other magazines dropped across the board though, right?
Tamura, Takei!
Yes?
Daigo-san's calling for you.
Uh, okay.
Excuse me.
Good morning.
Yes.
I want you to work together on a new series.
Together...? What is it about?
Manga following unresolved cases of the Showa era with a bit of documentary style.
It was Nanbu-san's plan, which seemed quite interesting.
Those stories, which can serve as source books, were drawn in the form of manga in the past...
I want you to make a new manga out of those original works.
I'll introduce you to a mangaka who drew the original works.
Yes, sir.
I'll inform you...
...once the schedule is set.
That's all.
Understood.
Thank you, sir.
Excuse me.
Daigo-san.
I appreciate you're letting me do a new series...
But why together with Takei? Can't I do it alone?
I want to give him a chance.
To be honest, he's a bit of a hindrance.
Don't say that.
As editor, it's my duty to increase the potential of my staff.
What is Takei's potential...
We have to see what he's capable of.
I don't think he's cut out to be an editor who create works, hand in hand with the mangaka.
That's why I have to look around for something that's suitable for him.
For example, he may not be creative...
...but he can gather the materials properly.
So you're going to test him out?
But I feel sorry for the mangaka that he'll be working with.
Manga is difficult...
...but it's only manga.
Only manga...?
If you say "It's only manga"... it's like saying, "It's only work".
For me, I don't feel like treating a guy who's not suitable for manga as a failure, as much as Nanbu-san.
Coffeeshop Luan
What did Nanbu-san's mistress say?
Her opinion of Nanbu-san's persona clashes with what I've heard so far.
Though many people said that Nanbu-san had changed...
...she was the only one who thought otherwise.
What do YOU think?
Surely, she doesn't know all there is about him, does she?
There are many people who don't want to reveal their true selves.
I'm sure you also have a hidden side that's surprising, right?
Me? There's nothing surprising about me except my full name.
Even his junior colleague at Houosha, Tsukamoto-san said the same thing about him...
But in the end, all the people who were able to get close to Nanbu-san said they didn't dislike him...
That they even looked up to him.
I see.
Do you know Nanbu-san's motto?
Motto?
What is an editor-in-chief's most important task?
"The most important thing is... not to increase the number of copies..."
The most important thing is... not to increase the number of copies...
...but to make your subordinates happy.
That during my tenure... I will make them...
...enjoy making manga...
...and feel glad they decided to become manga editors.
That's what I believe.
Haruko-san laughed and told him jokingly, "Are you in a position to say that?"...
But still, why do you think he died in the end?
It was said that Nanbu-san was now able to understand Menjo's version of...
...Shimoyama Incident's suicide theory, right?
I guess maybe, he superimposed his own circumstances with that of President Shimoyama's.
Then, you think he committed suicide?
When those at the top betray you and you're force to betray those under you, you'd feel it's easier to just die.
Betray those under you, and be betrayed by those at the top?
Nanbu-san was a seasoned editor-in-chief...
After all, he was from a major publishing company.
In other words, he was a sheltered and pampered person.
A management status at a medium-sized publisher...
...without being aware of the murky side and inner workings of the company...
...he found himself tossed in that situation.
Nanbu-san had come up with a groundbreaking revamping plan for Brave's relaunching...
A manga magazine for adult readers...
...cannot win if it isn't mizuiro.
He said he's "going to open the airvents that would blow away the low clouds hanging over the manga world".
The managing director who is set to become the next president...
...had a hand in illegal manga trading.
But the Managing Director is also involved in this.
The Brave staff...
...wasn't able to reach Nanbu-san's desired level.
All of you... are not cut out to be editors!
Everyone of you should be fired!
The way things are right now, they have no place in my plans.
So all of those factors are intertwined with Nanbu-san's death?
But if there was someone like Tsukamoto-san...
...whom he could talk with about his true feelings even if they end up in a fistfight, things might have turned out different.
*old-fashioned style of male bonding: talks leading to fisticuffs and then making up
Well, such a thing* doesn't happen anymore in today's era.
We also have to put in a lot of energy in order to win.
Me and the staff.
It's connected.
You think so too, right?
Even though each manga is completely different...
...you can sense a consistent, single-minded focus all throughout.
It's like looking at a baseball lineup.
There's a No. 1 batter... and a No. 4 batter.
If everyone's No. 4, they can't win the game, right?
The entire magazine is definitely powering up.
So designing a whole magazine is... something like this, huh.
Thanks to... Daigo-san, right?
By the way... where's Daigo-san?
Which reminds me, I heard he said he's going to the president's office.
His face was like he was troubled about something.
Maybe Daigo-san...
...is going to resign.
You lied to me.
Regarding the sale of the pictures...
You already talked about it with Nanbu-san.
Of course not...
Shall I tell you how I found out?
It's because Nanbu-san visited kamishibai author Menjo Keizo-san.
To return a kamishibai that Watanuki had in his possession.
The one who told him where to find Menjo-shi...
...was you, wasn't it?
I'll change my question.
Did you purposely not tell Nanbu-san...
...that most staff members of Brave...
...are contractual employees with unstable salaries?
I looked over their employment contracts.
It was clearly designed to be advantageous to the company.
There was no need to inform Nanbu-san since it wasn't his concern.
The contractual employee system in the current publishing industry isn't unusual.
Your real purpose in hiring Nanbu-san...
...was to use his relaunching of the magazine...
...as an excuse to fire all contractual employees, wasn't it!?
The managing director's policy was to give due reward or punishment.
The one responsible for decreasing the number of Brave's copies these recent years...
...was Horio-san. And also his subordinates.
That's why (as punishment)...
...he (managing director) advocated for the termination of their contract renewals except for the regular employees.
Nanbu-san may have had a twisted character...
However...
He was basically a person who tried to be an ally of the weak.
That's because the important message of manga...
...is to crush the bully, and to help the weak.
Since he felt responsible...
...he was greatly troubled about the restructuring of his staff.
I've thought about saving them.
I'll keep silent about the wrongdoing committed by the managing director.
In exchange, don't dismiss the staff of Brave!
Why did you refuse his proposal?
Was it because such a scandal could easily crush the company?
I really wasn't aware what my son and Watanuki-kun were doing.
But since Nanbu-san firmly believed I was complicitly involved in it...
...I felt insulted.
The restructuring of all staff members will go on as planned!
Actually, I was also feeling bothered about the dismissal.
But because of your disgraceful threat...
...I've decided to push through with it!
The manga business will continue... Wait for their contracts to expire...
...and then, contractual employees will be sequentially laid off!
It doesn't matter if you quit or not.
What...!?
The rest is up to you.
Will you resign as editor-in-chief?
Or are you going to continue here doing whatever it is you like.
Please decide for yourself.
Even so, he did not quit.
He wanted to proceed with it rather than protect his subordinates.
Wanted to proceed with what?
The relaunching of Brave.
You thought he was a strong person, right?
But he really didn't care about justice.
To do what he wants, he was willing to throw people under the bus, and betray others.
What's with that crap...
"Manga editors-in-chief crushing the bullies and supporting the weak"?
Nanbu-san, you see...
...was especially suited for our company and was easy to handle...
He truly had a personality oriented towards being an editor-in-chief.
I have derived a conclusion from what you have just told me.
I think Nanbu-san... committed suicide.
Suicide?
Nanbu-san wasn't a company's dog, as much as you think he was.
He wanted to do the relaunching by all means.
In order to do that, his men are to be sacrificed.
Torn between his men and his superiors, Nanbu-san was desperate.
He hated turning a blind eye towards the managing director's wrongdoing.
He must also have felt hurt by your arrogance.
Could you rethink...
...the dismissal of Brave's contractual employees?
It depends...
...whether you are able to find out "the know-how for a sure-fire winning adult manga magazine" that Nanbu-san talked about.
I already did.
Oh, what was it?
If I tell you, will you promise not to dismiss them?
It depends whether I agree to that idea.
Then I won't tell you.
Instead, I will tell this important secret to Brave's contractual employees that you wish to dismiss.
Hello, Mizuno speaking.
I guess, Nanbu-san indeed killed himself.
Is that so.
He chose to abandon his subordinates...
...once he lost the fight with the president.
But since his conscience was eating away at him...
...he unintentionally jumped off.
Backwards... while saluting, huh.
What?
Back up a second!
What did you just say?
Backwards...
Not that one!
Did you say, "saluting"?
Yes...
The witness said... that Nanbu-san was saluting with his right hand when he fell backwards.
Hello? Daigo-san?
I'm glad I came here on his monthly death anniversary.
Thanks for inviting me.
Is this your first time to come here?
Yes.
Really?
On that day...
It was said there was another person on this rooftop aside from Nanbu-san.
I passed by someone who went down from here.
And also, there was someone who saw Nanbu-san when he fell.
The exact moment when Nanbu-san was falling...
While he was falling...
...he was doing this pose.
Nanbu-san knew how to provoke an editor whom he wanted to mock.
He'd imitate the hero of the manga which that editor had developed.
To mock the signature pose that the manga editor had thought along with the mangaka...
...is the most hurtful and offensive thing.
It was said that Nanbu-san fell while saluting like this.
You understand what this means, right?
The one who developed Pashiri Police was Horio-san.
Then, the signature pose for that "Hand Salute of Attention" was...
Of course it was Horio-san's.
This was the signature pose from Pashiri Police...
...which was a manga that you've developed.
The one who also threatened me and Ito-kun... was you, wasn't it?
No... You're mistaken...
I remember that particular feature of the worn down heel of your shoe.
The man who shoved me down also had the same worn down heel on his right shoe.
It was you, wasn't it?
Who threw down Nanbu-san.
I couldn't forgive him.
For going along with the Managing Director's scheme...
...to dismiss all of Brave's contractual employees...
I couldn't forgive him...
He accepted it without hesitation!
On that night too... Nanbu-san was drunk as usual...
...he forced me to accompany him...
...and brought me here.
I said enough... Ouch!
What do you think? Nice view, isn't it?
You know...
I'm gonna make a new manga magazine that's gonna energize all the people who work in this town.
Make a new manga magazine?
You're throwing your men away, what's this "new" crap are you talking about?
The only thing you did was to make the hard-working people of Brave unhappy!
Is that what you call "relaunching"!?
You're nothing but crap!!
He stood here without saying anything for a while.
Then, he opened his mouth...
...and laughed.
But shortly afterwards, he went back to his usual self...
Whose fault do you think it was?
Who drove a magazine which in its heyday had a million copies published... on the verge of folding up?
The first person to blame... is you!
Second is... those incompetent guys!
It's only natural they'd be fired.
It's rude to the god of manga!
For better or worst, I too have prepared myself.
Is that what he said?
And then...
...he said, the crappiest manga was Pashiri Police...
...and called it "Pashiri Idiot"!
He was laughing when he said it.
Do you know what the crappiest manga is?
It's the one that you developed... Pashiri Police!
It's "Pashiri Idiot", if you ask me!
I will say this for the sake of Nanbu-san's honor.
Nanbu-san didn't go along with Managing Director's scheme.
On the contrary...
He asked not to fire Brave's contractual employees.
He directly tried to negotiate with the president and even threatened him.
Nanbu-san was editor-in-chief of Brave...
...up until the end.
A magazine has a "color".
Manga Brave started as a manga magazine geared towards blue collar workers.
For example, stories that always took place at a ramen shop...
...at a yakuza gambling joint, or at a sex shop...
...stuff like those that readers were interested in was what the magazines had targeted.
However, when manga for grownups itself became popular...
...prejudice towards manga also weakened...
When the genre developed into something that even the educated class had shown interest in...
...the chance to increase Brave's copies had come.
They continued with the manga geared for the blue collar...
...but they also introduced manga with complex stories for white collar workers.
The result was a huge success.
So far, that was the transition and history of Brave.
Nanbu Masaharu defined the present era as "mizuiro" (light blue).
It's an era that means "the borderline between blue collar and white collar".
It was a concept to inspire and energize that "mizuiro reader".
And send them the message, "Let's look at and learn to love Japan once again".
I wonder why Nanbu-san wanted one shot manga.
Half of the people who buy manga magazine for grownups are its subscribers.
One-fourth make up the occasional readers.
The remaining one-fourth are the finicky people who happened to buy out of a whim.
But you still have to make a manga magazine that will satisfy all of those kinds of readers.
In the past, grownup manga magazines...
...increased the number of their copies during New Year, Golden Week, and the summer holidays.
Nowadays, they don't increase anymore even to just one copy.
It's because...
...they're all just continuing stories, there's no one-shot manga.
Every time an occasional reader picks up a copy, he'll still understand whatever story it is, if it's a one-shot manga.
This was the "know how" for a sure-fire winning manga magazine for grownups, that Nanbu Masaharu had thought up.
A magazine has a "color".
Nanbu Masaharu defined the present era as "mizuiro"...
I see...
Then the manuscript was stored all along at Soukisha?
Yes.
Then, how did Nanbu-san die?
He was killed...
...but his last moments can also be considered as a sort of an accidental suicide.
Is that your conclusion?
Sorry.
I am sure of one thing though... that Nanbu-san...
...truly loved manga with all his heart.
Soukisha Employee Captured Suspected Murder of Editor-In-Chief
Daigo-san...
Are you really gonna quit?
Yeah.
Ever since you took on the job, sales have improved.
And from now, we'll likely be receiving offers of adapting Gokumen and Pashiri Police (into anime or live action), right?
I'm truly happy for you guys.
I've also imparted to you, Nanbu-san's "know-how" for a sure-fire winning manga magazine.
I wish you good luck from now on.
Ishida.
Yes.
I hope you understand why I'm entrusting the job of new editor-in-chief to Tamura.
Of course. I don't mind it.
You like to produce manga, don't you?
Tamura believes in you.
From now on, you can create manga as much as you want.
Yes.
I will take to heart the report regarding the relaunching that you'll leave behind.
I'm not the one leaving it. It was due to Nanbu-san's talent.
Kawabata, you're the future ace.
When the time Pashiri Police comes to an end....
...your immediate task is to produce hit manga along with Nanbu-san's relaunching concept.
I understand.
Takei.
Yes.
You're the youngest in the group.
The young ones have the right to fail.
From here on, there'll be lots of challenges.
Don't be afraid to fail a lot.
Daigo-san...
Hey, hey, get a hold of yourself.
Thank you very much!
Daigo-san...
Am I really cut out to be editor-in-chief?
An editor-in-chief doesn't only check the quality of each manga...
...but also have a bird's eye view of the whole magazine, and can design a totally-balanced magazine.
He also doesn't get jealous of others' talents. Only a few have such skills (and you're one of them).
I'm not confident.
Confidence may not be something...
...we'll have, all our lives.
Are your meetings with Keizo-san going well?
Yes. The more I researched on it, the more I leaned towards the theory that President Shimoyama was murdered...
But when he told us his idea that a hitman was hired to assist in his suicide, we were very surprised.
Tamura.
For us guys, we may hold manga with a high regard...
But don't forget what I said about it being, "only manga, only a job".
You only have one life, don't lose it (to manga).
Yes sir.
I guess that's where you and Nanbu-san differ, right?
I'm really...
...so sorry.
You don't have to apologize to me.
So... what are you going to do now?
I'm quitting Soukisha.
It may already too late for me but...
...I've entered a small publisher...
...and decided to start over from the beginning...
And to face manga from scratch.
I see.
I guess...
...I still like manga.
First of all, please apologize to the others.
Yes.
Daigo-san!
You were a big help to me.
I promise to become a manga editor.
Manga magazines...
...are cool, right?
Even the dreams you can't fulfill on your own...
...you can make your big dreams come true, if you have everyone with you.
Someday...
I will also work hard to make such a magazine like that (that's made with the help of everyone)!
The exuberance of youth!
I'll be expecting it.
Thanks for coming to Sendai.
No...
I'm sorry I took so long.
Today...
...I want to tell you what I want to do from this point on.
I have to know why dad died.
I know that you don't want it.
That you want to forget already, right?
But I can't bring myself to forget.
Do you believe Dad killed himself?
I think he was murdered.
Maybe by the mythical hitman called "Dropper For Hire".
I want to find out if it's true.
Finally...
...you told me what you wanted to do.
Sis... do you believe it? About the Dropper.
Do you know that flowers were placed...
...on the platform where Dad fell?
I thought maybe someone happened to be present at the station when the accident happened.
Those flowers were disposed of right away.
But ever since then, bouquets of flowers placed along the roadside would catch my eye.
They just stayed there... withering away every time I see it.
I wondered if the mind of the person who placed such flowers is filled with nothing but memories of the victim...
...I had that kind of strange thought.
But instead of thinking, "It must be sad"...
...I was more like, relieved.
I wondered if the person who placed the flowers was able to find closure.
But inside you, the bouquet of flowers still remain, right?
Yes.
That's why before it withers, or before it gets disposed away...
...do whatever it is you want to do.
Thank you... Sis.
Nanbu-san's Personal Belongings
Soukisha
I still have to return these.
The ones we weren't able to get a hold of... are these two, right?
Shono Takayuki
I left a message to this Shono-san in his answering machine.
This "Artisan" that I called was a cake shop.
Artisan
Artisan Cake Shop, hello?
Sorry for this sudden question but have you heard of the name of Nanbu Masaharu?
Are you a friend of Nanbu-san?
Well, yeah...
I'm so glad you called!
Well, actually...
Nanbu-san said he'll call us again to ask for the price for the cake that he ordered when he's decided on the date...
...but he never got back to us again.
He ordered a cake?
I see... By the way, who was it for?
This is EK Research, may I help you?
My name is Shono.
I got the message you left on my answering machine.
You were Nanbu-san's junior colleague, right?
The head of an editing production. Sorry that you went out of your way to call me.
It's fine.
I don't know if I should tell it to you...
But I guess you ought to know about it.
Okay...
Welcome to Kiwi Company.
This is an editing production company that Houosha originally created for Nanbu-san.
But it was said that Nanbu-san declined it, so Shono-san became its head.
Sorry to make you wait. Right this way please.
I didn't know Nanbu-san died until I heard it on the news.
Nobody called to inform me about me.
It seems because everyone thought he and I were natural enemies.
That "natural enemy" suddenly visited you three weeks before he died, right?
Yes.
Kiwi-sha President Shono Takayuki
I didn't want to see him but he was my senpai.
I had no choice but to agree to an appointment. And then...
...he actually knelt and lowered his head to me.
And then, you agreed to his offer?
Oh, no.
I couldn't agree to it right away.
Even though we're a fine company, it's a 100% owned subsidiary of Houosha.
If he's butting into a manga magazine that's under his former company...
...there's a risk he'll be sabotaging it.
Then Nanbu-san...
I beg of you... Please explain to Houosha about the difference in readers.
Or rather...
I'll explain it to them myself!
I want to aim for the restoration of manga!
Please, I'm begging you!
His passion won me over...
He visited Houosha numerous times, and through his planning...
...we were going to launch a manga magazine.
When did they approve it?
Two days before his death.
When I told him about it over the phone, he was really looking forward to it...
...and said "Thank you, thank you" so many times.
Actually...
There's something I want to show you.
Daigo-san... What's the matter? You called us for an urgent meeting.
I thought that it'd be better if we meet here.
Everyone, please come this way.
It was Nanbu-san's wish to make this top floor...
...into an editorial department.
What is this...
It's a cake that was ordered by Nanbu-san.
A Revolutionary Manga Magazine for Mizuiro Readers! We Can Do It, Guys!
"Mizuiro"...
It's big...
"Manga for adults that will stir up a revolution".
Manga for adult readers, that would stir a revolution
Manga Kakumei, Comic Sora, Manga Revolution
Manga Blue Sky Blue
Potential Titles for New Magazine: - Manga Kakumei - Comics Sora - Manga Revolution - Manga Blue Sky Blue
So these were titles for a new magazine!
If it were up to me, I'd give it a bit of a cooler name.
Please look at this too.
Is this...
Name: Nanbu Ishida Tamura Kawabata Takei Ito
It's the names of everyone at Brave.
He wanted to invite you guys to work here.
If you were to be dismissed from Soukisha...
...he said he doesn't care if we don't make him a full time employee...
...but with regards to you guys, he repeatedly begged us to permanently hire you.
But... he wasn't sure if you will come.
Since he said, you hated him.
Name: Nanbu Ishida Tamura Kawabata Takei Ito
Original Work: NAGASAKI TAKASHI "Henshucho No Joken -Daigo Shinji no Hakuran Suiri File-" (Shinchosha Corp.)
Screenplay: ASO KUMIKO
Music: GRAND FUNK
In the end, he chose to crush the bully... and help the weak, right?
Photography: YAMADA YASUDA
Lighting: WATABE YOSHIMI
Yeah.
Images: KANEKO AKIRA
I guess Nanbu-san...
Editing: YANAGISAWA TATSUYA
...was a manga editor-in-chief after all.
Online Editing: HIDETO MIKI
MA: HACHIYA HIROSHI
Would you happen to be crying?
VFX: KAMADA KOSUKE
Of course not!
Music Producer: MOGI EIKYO
Art: YUZHU YUKIHISA
In Cooperation With: TEZUKA PRODUCTION
Daigo-san...
Decoration: TAKI RIKA
I fully understand it now...
Organization: TOKUDA KATSUHISA
*introduction, development, turn, and ending
That it's wonderful like this, isn't it? A story complete with all the parts*.
Publicity: KAKO HIROYUKI
In-Charge of Manga: MORI HIDEKI (Keizo Menjo) TANAKA KEIICHI (Ajima Fumiya)
Manga Cooperation: HIRAMATSU SHINJI (Pashiri Police) TSUCHIYAMA SHIGERU (Gokumen) NIHON BUNGEISHA, LTD. ("Weekly Manga Black" Editorial Dept)
That's right!
The most important part in the story is the ending, okay?
Co-Production: TOHO CO.
Stills: INOUE SHUNI
Don't forget it.
Subtitles by WABI-SABI SUBS
JP-EN Translation / Editing / Timing: EARTHCOLORS
Raw Provider: VAMPIREXxX Special Thanks to: YUUKI
Produce: HATORI KENICHI KITA REIKO Producer: KAWADA NAOHIRO
Director: MIKI TAKAHIRO
"Editor-in-chief" my butt...
I really don't like you, you know that?
Well, I don't dislike you.
What?
You're exactly like me.
What are you saying... No way we're the same.
One of these days...
...let's make an interesting manga magazine together.
A 2018 Production of: WOWOW
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