24 Chapters Total
24 Chapters Completed
100%
Story. 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. A gag parody of Shinji Nagashima's immortal "Mangaka Zankoku Monogatari" (Karasawa's title only differs by adding "cho" [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 2006.
Contents
Act 1: Ambition
Chapter 1 - Samson
Chapter 2 - Flame
Chapter 3 - The Voice of Darkness
Chapter 4 - I Am Mangaka
Chapter 5 - Almost 40
Act 2: Aspirations
Chapter 6 - Credit Hog
Chapter 7 - Happiness
Chapter 8 - Daughter Dear
Chapter 9 - Mangaka Under Fire
Chapter 10 - It's Great to Be Young
Act 3: Appetite
Chapter 11 - A Bad Tokiwa-so
Chapter 12 - The Customer Is God
Chapter 13 - Halfway Between the Peaks and Valleys
Chapter 14 - Face the Past
Chapter 15 - Women, Women Everywhere
Chapter 16 - Mr. No Women vs. Ms. No Men
Act 4: Ardor
Chapter 17 - Red Roses on the Road of Manga
Chapter 18 - Here Comes the Girl
Chapter 19 - Jewel of the Palm
Chapter 20 - Stars of Manga
Chapter 21 - The Ring
Chapter 22 - The Final Series
Act 5: Anguish
Chapter 23 - Cancelled!
Side Story - Mr. So-so