At 39 years old, Nozue lives a routine, if not melancholic, life of sleep and work. Togawa, his younger subordinate, finds it troubling and takes it upon himself to shake up Nozue's routine. During a lunch o...

44 years of age and still unwed, construction worker Kurosawa desires nothing more than a modicum of respect from his colleagues. And a touch of popularity wouldn't go amiss either. Regrettably, Kurosawa's i...

An autobiographical work in which Hideo Azuma tells the story of his inability to cope with the pressures of his job as a mangaka and of his exeriences with alcoholism. The work is split into three sections,...

Story 1 - Don't Say Any More, Darling The only thing keeping Tadashi, a struggling song lyricist, alive is food handouts from Kouhei, a successful doctor. In fact, Tadashi has been leeching off of Kouhei for...

Akira Eguchi is a 40-year-old salaryman who has been divorced because of his wife's affair. All of a sudden he remembered the memory of surfing that he experienced on his honeymoon. Then he decides to clear ...