Word: kosaku
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...Salaryman Kintaro series features a former gang leader who takes a desk job, pummels evil rivals, talks trash to his elders and scores with the ladies. Another popular series, Division Chief Kosaku Shima, is more realistic. It follows the evolution of a junior manager into a savvy world beater, as he confronts cost-cutting pressures and political corruption. Similarly, the hero of Shuhei Nozaki: Bank Auditor roots out venality at Blue Sky Bank with his superpower--a keen eye for bad loans...
Keiichi Makino, a manga expert at Kyoto Seika University, praises the comics' "complex story lines, characters, sophisticated dialogue and drawings. The amount of information is astonishing." In the U.S., Japanese bookstores such as Kinokuniya in New York City carry a bilingual version of Division Chief Kosaku Shima. A book about the comics, with samples, is called Bringing Home the Sushi, available at Amazon.com...
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