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| Books LLC : Mitsuru Adachi: Touch, Cross Game, Mitsuru Adachi, Miyuki, Nine, Katsu!, Hiatari Ry?k?!, Rough, H2, Slow Step, Short Program, B?ken Sh?nen | |
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Mitsuru Adachi: Touch, Cross Game, Mitsuru Adachi, Miyuki, Nine, Katsu!, Hiatari Ry?k?!, Rough, H2, Slow Step, Short Program, B?ken Sh?nen |
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English |
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Paperback |
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126 |
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2010-05-20 |
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1155372069 |
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Books LLC |
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0.43 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.28 inches |
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Touch, Cross Game, Miyuki, Nine, Katsu!, Hiatari Ryōkō!, Rough, H2, Slow Step, Short Program, Bōken Shōnen, Niji Iro Tōgarashi, Itsumo Misora, Jinbē, Rainbowman, Idol Ace. Excerpt: B ken Sh nen B ken Sh nen ( ? ) is a manga series of short stories by Mitsuru Adachi which appeared about once a year in Shogakukan's Big Comic Original between 1998 and 2006. The title translates to "Adventure Boys." All seven stories deal with grown men, each dealing with some aspect of his past. Some of the stories have slight fantasy elements to them, while others use flashbacks. The only common feature is a grown-up protagonist somehow coming face-to-face with his childhood past, in a testament to the loss of youth, the disillusionment of growing old, and nostalgia for better times. In the Adachi pantheon, this is a rare diametric view of his eternal theme of "youth," in this case youth as seen through the lens of the past. Manga The series has been collected in a single tank bon published by Shogakukan . 1. Beyond the Door Masahiko, a small business owner who returns to his hometown after several years' absence, Masahiko begins to look back on the days of his childhood and Doraemon, who helped him navigate his childhood. Masahiko then goes back to remembering helping a man who had stopped a mugger from stealing his briefcase, and how he introduces the man to a mother and young daughter who own a small pharmacy he had just met. Back in the present, Masahiko looks down sadly at the floor and asks Doraemon to "take me to three days ago". It is then we learn that the man he had introduced is actually a con man who he unknowingly helped by recommending him to the mother and daughter. Now they will lose their shop tomorrow and the daughter, who he secretly loves, will never look at him again. Just wh...
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