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Kong Father

Cover to eBook, featuring Kong Father and Son.

**Kong Father** (コングおやじ *Kongu Oyaji*) is a gag work by Fujio Akatsuka and Fujio Pro, serialized in Weekly Shonen King through 1976 to 1977.

## Overview

Marketed as a Fujio Akatsuka version of the King Kong tale, this gag feature centered around an ape-man known as Kong moving out of the jungle to Tokyo, bringing his young son along with him.

However, whenever Kong encounters trouble or gets angered, he will quickly show off his ferocious and destructive strength to handle the situation.

## Characters

*See also: List of characters in Kong Father*

In addition to these notable characters (recurring or guest),The Police Officer with the Connected Eyes plays the usual recurring police role in this title and Ryunoshin Hattori is seen at one point as a background presence. Moguramaru is also seen in a rare appearance past the early 1970s, as a mole man that the ape-men have to deal with.

### Kong Father

Our protagonist. His strength is enough to break entire doors (and steps) off their foundation, bend a gun into a knot, and to do far more destructive things if he so desires. He designed his own treehouse home by stealing others' belongings for its creation, even down to the very food. Though he can fully speak, he ends his sentences in "Guwaa~"

The citizens of Tokyo often end up grievously injured by Kong Father, but there is little they can do against such a force. In the final chapter, Kong Father is interrogated by a rather persistent officer (Kaoru-chan) who winds up taking pleasure in Kong Father tying him up and whipping him and seems to get thrills from the ape-man's violence.

In the end, Kaoru reveals himself to in actuality be a phoenix that was testing Kong Father, and Kong Father departs back to the jungle on the phoenix's back (but Kong Son is left behind and forgotten, yelling and chasing after the two).

### Kong Son

The child of Kong Father, who has less fur in comparison to his dad but is still a quite-ape like boy, at first only speaking with "Kyaa! Kyaa!" but showing himself to be capable of fluent speech as well, and speaking more coherently more often through the series. Rather than his father's sharp, jagged ape teeth, he is characterized by a large, three-toothed overbite.

Over the course of the series, he also becomes more humanoid-looking when compared to how he appeared early on (especially in the first chapter). In a "feature film"-style chapter, he stars as a young human man named John, while Kong Father plays his boss.

## Serialization

* Weekly Shonen King: 1976 #52- 1977 #52

Only the first 14 chapters were reprinted when the series was collected in tankobon edition, however this was eventually rectified in its eBook release with the entire series finally being represented.

## Reprints

* Hit Comics: 1 volume
* Shogakukan: The Hit Comics volume was digitized for the Fujio Akatsuka Complete Works DVD-ROM release, with print-on-demand version available through ComicPark
* eBookJapan: 3 volumes, with previously-unreprinted chapters and color pages restored
The Happiness of Yuriko

Frontispiece for the story.

**The Happiness of Yuriko** (ユリ子のしあわせ) is a 1958 one-shot by Fujio Akatsuka, published in Shueisha's *Ribon* magazine.

## Overview

For as long as she's known in her life, the young girl Yuriko has enjoyed growing up alongside her grandfather and having him as a parental figure. However, she seems to long for a mother, though her grandfather sees such a thing as unnecessary.

When tragedy strikes, however, Yuriko must reconnect with her long-lost mother.

## Characters

### Yuriko

A young girl living a humble life in the countryside with her grandpa. Yet, in her adolescence, she's also come to want some pricey things such as modern fashionable handbags that other girls have. She gets concerned and tearful at seeing other girls with mothers, and wonders about her own.

Upon the old man's death and Yuriko's arrival in Tokyo, her handbag is stolen by two delinquents and she's left in despair. She cries out for her mother, trying to look for where the woman could be, but is injured when she steps into the path of an oncoming car.

She later wakes up in a hospital, where she reunites with the fancy woman she'd seen earlier in the story, learning that she's the mother she's longed to be with.

### Grandpa

An old man who has raised Yuriko. He is angered when his daughter comes back from Tokyo, having had a change of heart and wanting to reconnect with the child. He insists that he's the only parent Yuriko needs in her life, and pushes his daughter away.

He watches his daughter's train depart in the rain, becoming soaked, which soon leads to him becoming deathly ill. As his health fails him and he dies, he begs Yuriko to go seek out her mother in Tokyo.

### Yuriko's Mother

A fashionable, rich but modest woman who wants to take her daughter back. Upon seeing the grown Yuriko for a first time, she bids her "Hello". Though Yuriko does not recognize her, she becomes tearful at the motherly presence.

She continues to try to see Yuriko and speak with her during her stay in the countryside, but is chased off by her father who orders her to stay away from the girl. After ultimately reuniting with Yuriko in Tokyo, she looks up at the stars and thinks "Thank you, Father".

## Reprints

* Shogakukan: Reprinted as part of the "1950s" collection in the Fujio Akatsuka Complete Works DVD-ROM set
* eBookJapan: Reprinted in the "1950s" eBook
Osomatsu-kun Ondo (1988)

**The Osomatsu-kun Ondo** (おそ松くん音頭), known in the Spanish dub as **Al Ritmo de Osomatsu** ("The Osomatsu Rhythm"), is the ending theme to the 1988 animated adaptation of Osomatsu-kun.

It is to not be mistaken with an earlier 1965 song of the same title, used for the early Asahi Sonorama sonosheet albums.

## Castilian Lyrics (Cosas de Locos)

Interpreter- Jose Luis Puertas

¡Arriba! ¡Vamos!

Aunque alguna vez

Karamatsu use el pantalón de Osomatsu.

Y aunque también Ichimatsu use los zapatos de Choromatsu.

Y aunque Jyushimatsu le rasque la ceja a su hermano Todomatsu.

¡Sheee!

Las cosas son como son,
y ellos son seis.

Pues sí, pues sí, las cosas son así.

Pues sí, pues sí, las cosas son así.

Si tú prestas atención las vas pronto a descubrir.

Al ritmo de Osomatsu

No yo yoi no yoi (¡arriba!)

Cho choi no choi (¡venga!)

Ho hoi no hoi (¡vamos!)

Al ritmo de Osomatsu

No yo yoi no yoi (¡arriba!)

Cho choi no choi (¡venga!)

Ho hoi no hoi~

## Catalan Lyrics (Coses de Grillats)

Intepreter- Enric Puig

6: ¡Amunt! ¡Vinga!

Intepreter: Tot i que a voltes

Karamatsu use els pantalons d'Osomatsu,

Tot i que també Ichimatsu use les sabates de Choromatsu

I que a Jûshimatsu li rasque la cella el seu germà Todomatsu

6: ¡Sí!

Interpreter: Les coses són com són,
i ells en són sis!

Així, així, les coses són així,

així, així, les coses són així.

Si tu prestes atenció, molt prompte ho vas a descobrir!

Al ritme d'Osomatsu

De hohoi no hoi!

Chochoi no hoi!

Kokoi no yoi!

Al ritme d'Osomatsu

De hohoi no hoi!

Chochoi no hoi!

Kokoi no yoi!

### English Translation of Spanish dub lyrics

Get up! Let's go!

Even if sometimes,

Karamatsu may use a pair of pants from Osomatsu,

Although at other times Ichimatsu may also wear the shoes that were worn by Choromatsu,

And even if Jyushimatsu may draw his eyebrows on the face of his brother Todomatsu,

Sheee!

That's just the way things are,and they are six!

Well yes, well yes, things are just like this

Well yes, well yes, things are just like this

If you pay attention, you'll discover a lot to know about everything!

The Osomatsu Rhythm is

No yo yoi no yoi (Get up!)

Cho choi no choi (Come on!)

Ho hoi no hoi (Let's go!)

The Osomatsu Rhythm is

No yo yoi no yoi (Get up!)

Cho choi no choi (Come on!)

Ho hoi no hoi~
Reprints are Bakabon

**Reprints are Bakabon** (転載はバカボン *Tensai wa Bakabon*) was an online web campaign and manga strip by Fujio Pro and ABJ (Authorized Books of Japan)/STOP! Pirates done to spread awareness and fight against piracy of Akatsuka and other authors' works.

It was serialized for 50 web strips from February 14 to April 4, 2022 and promoted by both companies on Twitter, as well as receiving large physical advertisements in places like the Shibuya rail station.

## Overview

Bakabon's Papa is tricked by an unlawful man into creating a manga piracy site, promised that it would be for "everyone's happiness", but winds up punished and imprisoned for his illegal act and having to be educated on how to properly respect the works of manga-ka.

It does not go unnoticed by viewers that this manga is created from re-using and remixing Bakabon manga art to create this kind of story. It has also been received with some criticism and irony that Fujio Pro would speak out on this behavior, as there have not been many recent attempts aside from some smaller collections to bring awareness to Akatsuka's body of work and that in some cases, many sealed works may still remain buried if not for some efforts. There was also criticism of the anti-piracy message being shallow, in that it is simply "illegal" and "you'll get caught" than the fact that the authors can lose out on profit and that those who do illegal deeds are the ones who will reap the profit instead.

However, it appears that the shared stance between Fujio Pro and ABJ is to be that you should only buy and privately enjoy such manga, and to let the officials re-circulate it.

There are four named story-arcs within the manga that Papa goes through, in his adventures in learning about the illegal nature of unauthorized manga reproduction:

**The Reprints** (strips 1 to 13)

**The Arrest** (strips 14 to 25)

**The Rehabilitation** (strips 26 to 34)

**The Salvation** (episodes 35 to 50)

## Characters

Returning cast of the manga include:

* Bakabon's Papa
* Bakabon's Mama
* Bakabon
* Hajime
* The Police Officer with the Connected Eyes
* Rerere
* Nyarome
* Unagi-Inu
* Beshi
* Bakada Classmates "Omae" and "Kimi"

The manga pirate is also sourced from the original, in being one of many criminal designs.

## External Links

* STOP! Pirates Twitter
* "Reprints are Bakabon" official site and free reading of strips at ABJ
Akatsuka Gag Laughter Reserved Seating

**Akatsuka Gag Laughter Reserved Seating** (赤塚ギャグ笑待席) was a special feature that ran in Shueisha's Shonen Jump through 1969 to 1970, when the magazine had re-branded as *Weekly* Shonen Jump shortly after its start.

## Overview

Each installment would rotate between Akatsuka or one of his assistants (Kunio Nagatani, Mitsutoshi Furuya, or Kazuyoshi Torii) publishing a comedy story for the magazine, all being one-shots or limited in scale unless they were spun off into full works.

The kick-off of the feature would coincide with Shonen Jump's more frequent publishing schedule and change in direction, though Akatsuka's own busy commitments meant he could not yet do a long-term series for the magazine. This is what lead to his choice to initially do a biweekly serialization for his work I'm Violent Tetsu!, as well as having the concept readied for him by the editor Osamu Sunami.

Prior to this, Akatsuka had been associated with Jump in publishing the two-part Zurucho Has Come.

## Serialization

1. **Geba Geba Brothers** by Fujio Akatsuka (#20)
2. **The Bakumatsu Period's Playboy Hanpen Tsukigata-chan** by Mitsutoshi Furuya (幕末のプレイボーイ月形半平チャン, #21)- *unreprinted*
3. **Geba Geba Brothers** by Fujio Akatsuka (#22)
4. **Dr. Toilet** by Kazuyoshi Torii (#23)
5. **Dr. Geba Geba** by Fujio Akatsuka (#24)
6. **Hanamaru Oni Misoccus** by Kunio Nagatani (ハナマル鬼ミソッカス, #25)- *unreprinted*
7. **Oh! Geba Geba** by Fujio Akatsuka (#26)
8. **The Bakumatsu Period's Playboy Hanpen Tsukigata-chan** by Mitsutoshi Furuya (#27)- *unreprinted. A*fter this, Furuya would reprise *Hanpen Tsukigata-chan* for one more one-shot in 1970's issue #12, following the closure of the Reserved Seating feature.
9. **Oh! Geba Geba** by Fujio Akatsuka (#28)
10. **Dr. Toilet** by Kazuyoshi Torii (#1 for 1970). Further *Dr. Toilet* chapters appeared on their own terms in #23, #31, and #34, before it became more regularly-serialized in 1971.
11. **Oh! Geba Geba** (different concept, later re-titled as "I'm Violent Tetsu!" for tankobon) by Fujio Akatsuka (merger issue #2-3)
12. **Spy Operation** by Kunio Nagatani (merger issue #4-5)- *unreprinted*
13. **Oh! Geba Geba** by Fujio Akatsuka (#6). Final chapter of the overall magazine feature; this marks the end of the Tetsu story being billed under the *Geba Geba* name, with issue #8 giving the new title of "I'm Violent Tetsu!" and marking its official start as a series for Jump.

## External Links

* Shonen Jump serialization information for 1969 (Japanese language-only)
Weekly Yomiuri Special One-shots

The **Weekly Yomiuri Special One-shots** are a grouping of current affair-related one-shots by Fujio Akatsuka and Fujio Pro, published in the Yomiuri Shimbun's *Weekly Yomiuri*. While they may often be credited separately in work lists, some collections like the *Coredeiinoda* set opt to treat them as a loosely-linked series by this title.

There were six one-shots published over the year of 1975.

1. **Kiza Katsupe** (キザかっぺ)- March 1st issue
2. **My Wife Belongs to the University of Tokyo** (うちの女房は東大出)- April 5th issue
3. **Dictator** (独裁者)- May 3rd issue
4. **Angou** (アンゴウ)- June 21st issue
5. **Detective** (探偵)- August 9th issue
6. **I am a Fool** (私バカよネ　おバカさんよネ) -September 13th issue

Unlike Gag Guerrilla, these features were ordered by editorial as done-in-one stories and not as part of a regular title. Each work was related to a specific theme in each week's issue, that had been decided by the editorial department beforehand; *My Wife Belongs to the University of Tokyo* would align with the "University of Tokyo" related features in the April 5th issue, and *I am a Fool* would be related to the content on the "300 Million Yen Robbery" case.

## Reprints

Five of the one-shots would see reprint, courtesy of Shogakukan's DVD-ROM set, although *Dictator* remains the outlier possibly due to its story touching upon an ideologically sensitive subject like Nazi Germany and playing it for laughs; A man takes imported medicine from the age of Nazi Germany, causing him to sneeze with a "Fasci-shon" and devolve into a terrorist who repeatedly orders his family to praise a certain dictator. Otherwise, it would not be peculiar for an Akatsuka story to slip out of being reprinted and to be forgotten.
Dr. Geba Geba

The doctor, from the original colored magazine version.

**Dr. Geba Geba** (赤塚ギャグ笑待席『ゲバゲバ博士』 ) is a gag one-shot by Fujio Akatsuka and Fujio Pro, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump. It was the second of Akatsuka's "Geba Geba"-titled works in the Akatsuka Gag Laughter Reserved Seating feature.

## Overview

Dr. Geba Geba has the ability to modify others' faces through his different potions. After being rejected by a pretty woman, he becomes vengeful and decides to mess with others' faces to turn them as ugly as possible. What could be the stop to his rampage?

## Reprints

* Akebono: Reprinted with the other Shonen Jump "Geba Geba" features at the end of "I am Violent Tetsu!" volume 2. As with most other Akatsuka features of the time, the colored chapter was traced by assistants to render it as a colorless, lineart-only copy for reprints.
* Shogakukan: The above volume was digitized for the Fujio Akatsuka Complete Works DVD-ROM set, and can also be found in the print-on-demand edition via ComicPark.
One Man among Women

Kawada-kun, in the frontispiece for the story.

**One Man among Women** (女の中におとこがひとり) is a gag one-shot by Fujio Akatsuka and Fujio Pro, serialized in Nakayoshi.

## Overview

When Kawada-kun's younger twin sister is bullied by a classmate, he decides to get revenge by going to the school in disguise as a girl. However, Kawada-kun finds that his disguise might not be so easy, and that others may have had their own ideas up their sleeves.

## Characters

### Kawada-kun

The protagonist, whose given name is unrevealed. Borrowing a spare uniform of his twin as well as a wig from her doll that fits on his head, he heads off to the Nayonayo Girls' Academy to settle the score. He has trouble keeping the wig on straight, which raises some alarm in adults.

He is easily defeated by Yamada-san in their last fight, but finds a further twist to the deal.

### Kawada-san

Kawada-kun's sister, who is bullied by the rough Yamada-san and sent home with a mustache drawn on her face. She does not feature too heavily in the story until appearing once more at the very end.

As she and her brother are twins with similar faces, he can easily pass for her in drag.

### Yamada-san

Kawada-san's classmate, a rough-faced girl with freckles. Each attempt to try to humiliate or attack Yamada-san winds up with them sent outside by a teacher, where they attempt to fight again. Kawada-kun expresses surprise in how tough such a girl can attack, only for it to be revealed the real Yamada-san had also skipped class.

The real Yamada-san and Kawada-san are both surprised to see each other out of school, and realize both their brothers had the same idea.

### Yamada-kun

Yamada-san's older twin brother, who has also taken her place at school in an identical scheme. After Kawada-kun begs "Yamada-san" to not tell the teacher about the final fight, Yamada-kun unveils himself by taking off the wig and both boys find the whole matter hilarious. They scold their sisters for having used them to fight and seem to get along well, while having the girls apologize to one another.

## Reprints

* Akebono: Reprinted in the volume "One Man among Women, One Woman among Men" of the Fujio Akatsuka "Complete Works" imprint, among other extra stories.
* Shogakukan: The Akebono volume was digitized for the Fujio Akatsuka Complete Works DVD-ROM set, and sold in a print-on-demand version through ComicPark.
* eBookJapan: Reprinted as part of "The 1960s" volume 2.

## External Links

* Read "The 1960s" collection at eBookJapan (Japanese)
The Autobiography of Sheeh!: Osomatsu-kun and Me

**The Autobiography of Sheeh!: Osomatsu-kun and Me** is an autobiography book about Fujio Akatsuka, ghostwritten by Kunio Nagatani and published through Hana Shobo in 1966.

## Overview

At the time of the book's release, the Osomatsu-kun boom was at an all-time high with the 1966 anime adaptation having recently come out. Akatsuka was also in high demand and a strong star of Weekly Shonen Sunday, as well as having many other notable manga come out by the time.

Akatsuka would relay his early career up to the creation and success of -kun, with such memoirs being transcribed down by Nagatani, in about 90 pages of text. The decision was made to fill the rest of the book with samples of Fujio Pro manga to give a sample of his gag range.

The book was highly popular and sold out fast, going through at least 5 reprintings before Hana Shobo went bankrupt due to the careless behavior of its president. Fujio Pro opted to buy out all the remaining copies of the novel in stock, and sold them via a special mail-order incentive in its *Osomatsu-kun Book* newsletters for 260 yen.

In 1969, with the release of Akebono's Osomatsu-kun Complete Works and the Fujio Akatsuka Complete Works imprints, a completely new edition of the book was put out with Hana Shobo's credit and the original "Osomatsu-kun and Me" subtitle scrubbed out, and a brand new cover in place of the old. Though Akebono Publishing was not outright named for the new release on the cover, Fujio Pro would identify them as being involved for this minimally revised version of the book. Their presence is also indicated with advertisements in the inner cover for the Complete Works volumes that were available at the time, including the first 20 books of the Osomatsu-kun collection.

## Works Represented

*Osomatsu-kun* has at least 4 chapters reprinted, as it is was the focal work of this book and most popular. Other Fujio Pro works that are reprinted in the book, albeit most only with a single chapter each, include these titles:

* Otasuke-kun
* Leave it to Chota
* Kantaro (Shonen Book version)
* Nonsensical NO.1
* The Mean Professor
* Jajako-chan - 4 stories are included due to the short, 2-page length of each

As many of these reprints came from kashihon releases or other older collections prior to the "Complete Works" sets or others which made certain edits the standard, the manga may contain content like margin commentaries and little features. Any titles are also hand-written, rather than being typed serifs (with the exception of a *Chota* chapter that already had a typed title from its kashihon). However, any cases of colored chapters or frontispieces were not carried over, as was standard for reprinting at the time.
Osomatsu-kun Boxer March

**Osomatsu-kun Boxer March** (おそ松くんボクサー・マーチ) is an insert song performed on the second Asahi Sonorama drama album adaptation of the Osomatsu-kun manga.

It is sung by Minori Matsushima and the other actresses for the sextuplets who voiced in the record; Makiko Ito, Hiromi Yamagishi, and Kazuko Yoshikawa, although modern listings of the song do not identify these performers.

## Lyrics

六つ子: ワン・ツー ワン・ツー

おれたちゃ ボクサー

なさけ知らずさ

おれたちゃ ボクサー

ノックアウト キング

相手になるやつ かわいそう

一松: なぐってやる!

チョロ松: シゴいてやる!

カラ松: いたぶってやる!

トド松: たおしてやる!

十四松: ねむらしてやる!

おそ松: そしておだぶつさ!

六つ子: ワン・ツー ワン・ツー

おれたちゃ ボクサー

なさけ知らずさ

おれたちゃ ボクサー

ノックアウト キング

相手になるやつ かわいそう

一松: トト子ちゃんのために

チョロ松: ぼくが出る

カラ松: ボクさア

トド松: ボクさア

十四松: ボクさア

おそ松: ボクさア

チビ太: ケケケケ! おまえたちバカだぞ! ケー!!

おそ松: なんだかチビ太か

一松: バカとはなんだ!?

六つ子: ワン・ツー ワン・ツー

おれたちゃ ボクサー

なさけ知らずさ

おれたちゃ ボクサー

ノックアウト キング

相手になるやつ

チビ太: 知ってンのか

六つ子: 教えて

チビ太: ケ!

相手はベビー級世界チャンピオン

六つ子: え!?

チビ太: 万年候補

かの有名なストロング・キングパンチ

六つ子: ショック!

チビ太: これまでの戦績 きせきの二百連勝!

六つ子: 日紡貝塚みたいだな

チビ太: しかも全部がノックアウト勝ちだぞ

ケーッ!

六つ子: ゾーッ

ゾーゾー ゾーゾー

おれたちゃ いやさ

まっぴらごめんさ

おれたちゃ いやさ

ノックアウト いやさ

相手になるのは まっぴらさ

一松: なぐられるぞ

チョロ松: シゴかれるぞ

カラ松: いたぶられるぞ

トド松: たおされるぞ

十四松: ねむらされるぞ

おそ松: そしておだぶつだぞ
Kusobaba!!

The cover of the Akebono Bunko release.

**Kusobaba!!** (くそババア!!, lit: "Shitty Hag!!" "Shitty Old Woman!!" ) is a gag work by Fujio Akatsuka and Fujio Pro, having been serialized in Manga NO.1

## Overview

With a scenario by Kai Takizawa, this short series focuses on the unlucky and sex-craving **Yamamoto 46**, identified as such for him being 46 years of age and a total inexperienced virgin. In all his 46 years of life, he has been given misfortune by his mother, **Yamamoto 80**.

Originally, the series ran with the notation of **クソばばあ**, and then **クソババア**,  before settling on the final spelling by the end and for its reprints.

## Characters

### Yamamoto 46

A long-suffering writer who just wants to have a relationship and sex already, but whose nagging and lewd elderly mother will successfully get in the way to prevent his dream each time.

### Yamamoto 80

The "kusobaba" herself. She will not stand for any women to get close to her son, and will do what she can to destroy any ideas of a relationship. She is a rather perverse woman herself, and may even steal a lover if she so dares.

## Serialization

* Manga NO.1: November 1972 to April 1973

The series ran for these six chapters before the closure of the magazine:

1. **A Lady Reporter** (女性記者篇)
2. **A Perverted Woman** (女装警官篇)
3. **A Girl Gang Member** (スケバン篇)
4. **A Virgin Reporter** (童貞記者篇)
5. **A Female Fan** (女性ファン篇)
6. **A Lady Doctor's Visit** (女医往診篇)

## Reprints

* Akebono: Reprinted in the Akebono Bunko collection
* Shogakukan: The Akebono Bunko and extra content were digitized for the "Fujio Akatsuka Complete Works" DVD-ROM collection, along with a print-on-demand version from ComicPark.

## External Links

* "Kusobaba!!" write-up at the Akatsuka Preservation Society (Japanese)
List of characters in Ohana-chan

This is a list of minor or one-shot characters that appear in the series Ohana-chan, by Fujio Akatsuka. As the Akebono edition sourced by the DVD-ROM set contains many missing or out-of-order chapters, this list may not necessarily be complete.

## Other Children

### George

A young black American child who knows some Japanese, and converses with Ohana-chan to talk with some English as well.

### Mean Kids

A brother and a sister (prototypes to Ijitaro and Ijiko of The Mean Family) who try to bully Ohana while their moms are busy conversing, but wind up experiencing how much tougher she is.

### Oni Boy

A small oni child that Ohana meets outside her house during Setsubun.

### Baby from the Candy Shop

A toddler that Ohana brings home with her one day, who has a clefted head and single hair like Kantaro but glasses and buckteeth (akin to what would be eventually seen on Otasuke's brother Tamao). Ohana and Chikako get into a fight over playing with him, which leads Ohana's mother to sneak him out and put kashiwamochi in the futon he had been sleeping in as a way to prank the girls and give them something to eat.

### Gold-Toothed Girl

A tough older girl who has shiny gold teeth. Her impressive mouth gives Ohana and Chikako the idea to try to knock out their teeth in hopes of getting gold replacements.

### Transistor Girl

A little girl carrying about a transistor radio that plays messages from a "Fujio".

### Baby Ghost

A seemingly abandoned baby that Ohana encounters on the way home. When she and her mother unwrap his blanket, they discover he's actually a ghost and that his equally ghostly yokai family is looking for him.

## Other Adults

### Bug-like College Student

A young man with ahoge much like that of an insect, and eccentric behavior that leads him to mimic the noises of insects and leap around as if he were one.

### Tsumio Hashishita, Professional Beggar

A beggar that drops by Ohana's place with his business card, and opts to teach her and her mother about the ways of begging and scrounging for food. He is in actuality Gomi-ojisan from Tunnel Team.

### Chikako's Mother

A stern woman with glasses and a high bun, who has little to no tolerance for her daughter's mischief.

### The Maid Thief

A man claiming to want to get rid of his criminal ways and work at Ohana's house as a maid, but in actuality, he wants to find some opportunity to still try to rob places.
Jinx-kun

The cast members from one of the series' frontispieces.

**Jinx-kun** (ジンクスくん) is a manga by Fujio Akatsuka, that ran in the Gakken learning magazine Junior High 1st Year Course from April 1962 to March 1963.

## Overview

The series focuses on a pair of brothers, as the elder attempts to learn baseball and hit a winning home-run. He soon learns of a special "jinx" in his family, where if his younger brother Choromatsu wets the bed, it will mean that he'll succeed at baseball that day.

## Characters

### Jinx

A young man who aims to be great at baseball. After learning of how his brother's bed-wetting is apparently linked to his luck, he makes sure to find ways to get him to wet the futon to ensure success for that day.

### Choromatsu

The younger brother. He is a responsible young boy who helps run their father's vegetable store, but is afflicted with a bed-wetting problem that seems to benefit his older brother.

Choromatsu has a face and bowlcut similar to Sansuke of O-chan's Eleven Friends, which was serialized in this same period. Afterwards, this kind of design will commonly be seen on characters like Ganmo and Otasuke-kun.

### Mr. Tohoku

The teacher, who helps out in the baseball games.

This teacher will also pop up in other roles across this period of Akatsuka works, usually as a teacher to another character or another authority role.

### Papa

The boys' father briefly appears in the series, shown to be aggravated by Choromatsu's bed-wetting.

## Serialization

The series ran for at least 12 chapters in the magazine, under these titles:

## Reprints

* Futabasha: The series is reprinted as extra content in the volume of "You Love Me-kun", along with the one-shots of "The Monkey's Foolish Guardmen" and "Keiji and Goemon"
* Shogakukan: The "You Love Me-kun" reprint is digitized for the "Fujio Akatsuka Complete Works" DVD-ROM set (2002)

There has yet to be an eBook re-release or current reprint with this feature.
육가네6쌍둥이

**육가네6쌍둥이**(*Yukgane 6ssangdungi*, "The Yuk Family's Sextuplets") is a Korean-language dub and reversioning of the 1988 Osomatsu-kun series. It began broadcast on Cartoon Network Korea in June 2012, and has sporadically rerun on the channel over the years.

## Overview

This dub is considerably localized and edited to replace Japanese text and cultural references with that of Korean, and to adhere to broadcasting standards for Korean childrens' television. The "Yuk" surname given to the titular characters is a pun, as it means "Six".

This dubbing practice differs from the much later adaptation of *Osomatsu-san*, which would be produced four years later for the channels AniBox and ChampTV.

## Localization

### Name Changes

*See: List of foreign dub names for characters of Osomatsu-kun*

### Paint Edits and Censorship

* All Japanese text is removed and overlaid with Hangul signs and sound effects. The title cards for episodes are also digitally edited to have their text replaced.
* Nudity or scant clothing are censored and covered up; any nude butts or crotch shots are given digital underwear or otherwise obscured, and Totoko's panty shots are altered for her to be wearing shorts or another skirt. A fetish model magazine in episode 6 was also altered to have the women wearing dresses instead of bikinis and underwear.
* Yen is changed to Won currency. Japanese pop cultural references are also swapped out for Korean ones, such as Hikaru Genji being replaced by the Korean boy band SHINEe.
* Fashions like kimono are altered, and swords are changed to a more Korean standard of wooden clubs
* Hatabo's flag is blanked white to obscure its reference to Japan. Similarly, the controversial "Rising Sun" visuals seen in the opening are also altered, with the opening screen with Iyami being colored bright yellow and the later visual of the sunburst changed to simply have the background fade from one color to another.
* Sakura flowers are removed from "Ondo" ending; "Osomatsu-kun" in lanterns changed to title "Yukgane 6ssangdungi". The ending sequence itself is rotoscoped and redrawn from the original as with the opening, and some animation loops (such as Iyami and Chibita's first animation of them popping in) were forgotten in the process.
* Shots of drunken salarymen were cut from episode 13, creating some jarring jump-cuts in the start of the plot

## Staff

### Dubbing Cast

* Gi-dung (Osomatsu), Kkumteul (Kemunpas)- Yool Kim
* Hong Samba (Iyami)- San-hyung Um
* Kandol (Chibita), Heo-dung (Choromatsu)- Jeong-hwa Yang
* Gong Baeg-gi (Hatabo), Sun-dung (Ichimatsu)- Sun-hye Jung
* Cheon-dung (Karamatsu), Mak-dung (Todomatsu), Mother- Bong-eun Han
* Kkot-ji (Totoko), Bin-dung (Jyushimatsu)- Young-eun Kim
* Mr. Big (Dekapan), Rerere - Hyo-san Lee
* I-Dayong (Dayon), Beshi- Seong-jun Bang
* Father, Police Officer- Jong-un Kim
* Nyaug (Nyarome)- Sung-tae Park
One Woman among Men

Hanako and her family in the frontispiece.

**One Woman among Men** (男の中に女がひとり) is a gag one-shot by Fujio Akatsuka and Fujio Pro, serialized in Nakayoshi.

## Overview

A little girl named Hanako has grown up tough and strong due to the lack of a mother and instead having many men in her family, but her father wishes she'd be just a little more feminine instead.

## Characters

### Hanako

A small girl who can easily take on a robber in a fight. She likes frogs, as well as getting into fights with her four older brothers. However, her brothers find it just as stranger their sister is so tomboyish.

Rather than water flowers, she'd prefer to stomp on them, and her rough ways wind up upsetting the women of the neighbor family she's taken to. Eventually, after three months and three days, Hanako bores of acting tough but is confused to see the way her family acts now.

### Hanako's Father

A man who had lost his wife and wonders if it's why Hanako won't act more like a girl. He is exasperated at his daughter's ways and her expressing a want to smoke tobacco, so he and his sons arrange to see how she'd act if put around an all-women family.

After seeing the attempt to make Hanako feminine was unsuccessful, he wonders if the rest of his family should instead act feminine to influence her, and this behavior carries through to the end.

### Hanako's Brothers

Four unnamed young men of high school age. They attempt to act more feminine to offset their sister and get her to emulate their ways, only to wind up intimidated and threatened by her when she continues to act tough. Their sister is left watching how peaceful they've become, in preferring to knit or watch romantic soap operas.

### A Mother and Three Daughters

A woman in the neighborhood who has three girls of her own. She tries to encourage Hanako to do feminine things the way her daughters would, but is alarmed by Hanako's own ways of doing things and the brutality she and her girls face.

## Serialization

* Nakayoshi: June 1967
* Tezuka Magazine: November 1971. Re-titled **"I am Hanako"** (おれはハナ子だ) for the reprint.

## Reprints

* Akebono: Reprinted in the volume "One Man among Women, One Woman among Men" of the Fujio Akatsuka "Complete Works" imprint, among other extra stories.
* Shogakukan: The Akebono volume was digitized for the Fujio Akatsuka Complete Works DVD-ROM set, and sold in a print-on-demand version through ComicPark.
* eBookJapan: Reprinted as part of "The 1960s" volume 2.

## External Links

* Read "The 1960s" collection at eBookJapan (Japanese)
Dekunobo of the Wilderness

**Dekunobo of the Wilderness** (荒野のデクの棒) is a short-term gag feature by Fujio Akatsuka and Furuya Pro, serialized in Weekly Shonen King.

## Overview

A cowboy tale revolving around a most unusually-faced (and named) protagonist and his aim to fight in the Wild West. The series was a parody of the 1964 American remake of the film "Yojimbo", titled "A Fistful of Dollars".

As a specific "Furuya Pro" collaboration (long before Family Planning would be established as an actual company), it was Mitsutoshi Furuya that provided the artwork for the stories. This notation would also be seen for We are 8 Pro.

In reprints, as with *8 Pro*, the "Furuya Pro" labeling is altered to read "Fujio Pro" instead.

## Characters

### Dekunobo

A cowboy with a noseless, somewhat lopsided face. He journeys through the deserts and towns of the West, fighting enemies where he can. He lost his nose due to a bullet, which caused the rest of his face to collapse and turn out as strange as it has.

His name is a parody of Yojimbo, but can literally be read as "Deck Stick" as well.

### Kido-san

An enemy cowboy that steals others' facial features with his special weapon in the first chapter. He has cat-like whiskers and buck teeth. He is shot and defeated by Dekunobo, who he had temporarily blinded earlier by stealing his eyes.

### Desert Thief

A man in the second chapter, who Dekunobo first tries to fight for stealing a horse he'd found. It turns out this man was born with a gaping hole in his skull, which he conceals with a hat. He was born while his mother had been shot while pregnant, resulting in the bullet tearing through his own head yet him surviving.

Dekunobo discovers that the "horse" the thief had stolen was actually the criminal that shot the man's mother, as they both tear off the fake horse-skin to find him wearing her pendant. The two reconcile and Dekunobo bids him farewell.

### "Kaibutsu-kun"

A strange, cat-whiskered man in the third chapter who enjoys throwing stones and causing trouble for others. This is revealed to be due to the large bullet embedded in his head, that he disguised as part of his hat. After Dekunobo removes the bullet, he seems to be cured, but he requests for it to be put back in.

## Serialization

* Weekly Shonen King: #34-#37 for 1968

Chapters:

* 1. 八レンヌウエスアン

* 2. 荒野のデクの棒第二巻のはじほりであります
* 3. ここからは第四巻だベさ!!

## Reprints

* Akebono: All four chapters are reprinted in the volume "One Man among Women, One Woman among Men" of the Fujio Akatsuka "Complete Works" imprint, among other extra stories.
* Shogakukan: The Akebono volume was digitized for the Fujio Akatsuka Complete Works DVD-ROM set, and sold in a print-on-demand version through ComicPark.
Setsuko Tamura

**Setsuko Tamura** (田村セツコ, February 4, 1938-) is a Japanese illustrator and essayist. Through her long career, she was also at one point a collaborator of Fujio Akatsuka and Fujio Pro.

## Life and Career

Setsuko Tamura was born in Meguro Ward, Tokyo, as the eldest of four children (having two younger sisters and a brother). Having been interested in art since high school, she became an occasional apprentice of Katsuhiko Matsumoto in 1956, visiting his house once a month for guidance while splitting time with her banking job. After leaving her job in May 1957, Tamura continued to develop her style.

She made her notable debut in Shojo Club, taking up the position of an artist for a novelization in place of one that had fallen ill, which made her in high demand and requested more by editors to draw more illustrations for shojo magazines. These included the "Hello Ojou-san" fashion pages in Ribon, starting in 1960, as well as illustrations for a Japanese adaptation of the novel "Daddy Long-Legs".

Through the 1960s, she continued providing more fashion illustrations and images for merchandise, although a point of contact would be made with Fujio Akatsuka in 1971 when she dated him for a time and traveled to New York City with him to visit the offices of MAD Magazine. She would also provide some assistant illustration work on some of his manga, where a specific shojo touch and parody of her own style was needed, such as in a chapter of The Genius Bakabon revolving around shojo manga as well as a parody of "The Little Match Girl" in Let's La Gon. If this weren't enough, a younger sister (Hiroko) would also date one of Akatsuka's assistants, Don Sasaki, around the same time as well as marry him.

Tamura continued her picture book illustration career through the 1970s and 1980s, notably working on the design and pictures for an adaptation of "The Twins at St. Clare's". She has remained a key figure in the illustration industry, often hosting solo exhibitions of her work, as well as offering anecdotes and essays about her time with shojo manga. She is also one of the figures that can be seen in retrospectives about Akatsuka, and contributed to the Gambit publication of Shojo Manga-ka: Fujio Akatsuka.

## List of works

### Manga

* **My Neighbor Liv-chan** (Monthly Princess, Akita Shoten)

### Picture Book Illustrations

* **Anne of Green Gables** (Poplar Publishing)- cover only
* **The Twins at St. Clare's** (Poplar Publishing)
* **Malory Towers Academy** (Poplar Publishing)
* **Tales of the Little Women** (Poplar Publishing)
* **A Store that Sells Memories** (Sanrio)
The 7 Habit Family

Frontispiece featuring Kuseko.

**The** **7 Habit Family** (7くせ一家 *Nana Kuse Ikka*) is a gag one-shot by Fujio Akatsuka and Fujio Pro, serialized in Nakayoshi.

## Overview

The Kuseno Family is a seven-member family with seven very different yet obnoxious habits (*kuse*) that get in the way when they try to interact with others, or even each other.

## Characters

### Warushi Kuseno

The father of the family. He is a lazy and direction-confused salaryman who sleepwalks, to the confusion of others. In the end, he is seen reading his newspaper out on the streets, oblivious to what an unusual sight it must be.

### Kusee Kuseno

The mother of the family, who is clumsy and aggressive, easily tripping and kicking their guest.

### Kuseichi Kuseno

The eldest son, who habitually rips up whatever he can get his hands on when agitated.

### Kuseko Kuseno

The daughter, whose habit is spontaneously slapping someone.

### Kusetaro Kuseno

The youngest son, who will chew on any shoes left around.

### Kuse Kuseno

The grandmother, who has a habit of fainting unexpectedly and causing other people to become alarmed.

### Kusetama Kuseno

A troublesome family cat that makes his presence known loudly, and does rude acts like pee in tea and stick out his tongue to their guest.

## Reprints

* Akebono: Reprinted as part of the "Mean Family" volume in the "Fujio Akatsuka Complete Works" collection.
* Shogakukan: The "Mean Family" volume was digitized for the Complete Works DVD-ROM collection, and a print-on-demand version was put out through ComicPark.
* eBookJapan: Appears in volume 1 of the "Fujio Akatsuka Family Collection" eBook release
This Week's Adam and IF

**This Week's Adam and IF** (今週のアダムとイフ) was a gag manga by Fujio Akatsuka and Fujio Pro. It was serialized in Womens' Own magazine from 1983 to 1984.

## Overview

A woman named If-chan takes readers through her adventures with current events related to sex and scandals. This manga, along with This Week's Awful Person and the unreprinted Mean Current Affairs, made up more Akatsuka series in the mold of Gag Guerrilla after its cessation in Weekly Bunshun.

However, her actual involvement in the plots experiences a sharp drop off through later chapters, with her only being seen as delivering the ending punchline for the readers.

## Characters

### If-chan

Our initial protagonist. Her design slightly resembles Kazuko from Mr. Iyami, and other women who were used by Mitsutoshi Furuya throughout the early 1970s and on. Although she starts out more proportionate, If's design soon becomes more super-deformed in style, particularly as her role lessens in the series.

## Serialization

* Womens' Own: August 25/September 1, 1983 merger issue to April 19, 1984

## Reprints

The title first experienced a form of reprint in the Fujio Akatsuka Complete Works DVD-ROM set in 2002. However, to make it look tankobon-worthy, all margin text and other extraneous material were deleted from the original strips, with the references to If's name happening to go along with them (which can have her seeming nameless to new readers).

There has been no eBook release of the title or other form of reprint since.
The Mean Old Man

eBook cover featuring Ijii-sama

**The Mean Old Man** (いじわる爺さん ) is a short gag work by Fujio Akatsuka and Fujio Pro, serialized as a monthly feature in Weekly Manga Action.

## Overview

This work revolves around a very rich and miserly old man, who has all his money and riches stored up at the expense of any fun or good things to benefit his life with, bringing the question of "Is life truly good like that?" or if it's the ones who use their wealth that may be the ones in the wrong.

The manga also employs art and style shifts, first seen with a particularly attractive lady guest character in chapter 1.

## Characters

Other than these main two people, there is some minor usage of the Star System in chapters.

### Ijii-sama

(意地井)

The titular character. He goes about naked in a loincloth and does not bathe, leaving him to be covered in dirt and flies. Though his just-as unclothed subjects greet him politely, his stench is most unbearable. He stores all his savings in a giant-sized deposit vault and as to not spend any savings on a fancy home, resides in a shabby old shack.

If he allows those to accept his money or any gifts, things tend to end up unfortunate for them and he takes pleasure in the chaos and suffering. He is once also shown to cause a dancing spree across Tokyo due to his infectious way of cheering others up by dancing.

It is revealed by the end of the series that he was a starving beggar in his youth, and he can't comprehend seeing a young boy give his money away so easily even for things like food. Ultimately, when he decides to sit down to eat at a restaurant, he becomes upset at what he perceives to be high prices for food and leaves in tears, unable to spend money on such luxury.

### Branch Manager

(支店長)

One of Ijii-sama's trusted underlings, often accompanying on his exploits in each chapter or presenting the offerings to the soon-to-be unfortunate person.

## Serialization

* Weekly Manga Action: Irregular and monthly, published across five issues from November 30, 1978 to March 23, 1979

Chapters:

* 1. **Dream at the Age of Twenty** (二十歳の夢)
* 2. **Geisha Play** (芸者遊び)
* 3. **First Love** (初恋)
* 4. **Rhythm of Life** (人生のリズム)
* 5. **Heart of Savings** (貯金の心)

## Reprints

* Shogakukan: Digitized for the "Fujio Akatsuka Complete Works" DVD-ROM set, as well as being included in the print-on-demand edition for ComicPark.
* eBookJapan: 1 volume, utilizing the same magazine or manuscript sourcing
The Replacement Housekeeper

**The Replacement Housekeeper** is a shojo one-shot by Fujio Akatsuka and Fujio Pro, published in Weekly Shojo Friend in 1965. It is notable for being the prototype to Kibimama-chan, with similar themes and characters that would eventually carry over.

## Overview

In this story, a wealthy businessman hires an "American Maid" to whip his two disobedient children into shape. Although the brother and sister try to find ways to outwit and defy the maid, they find that she has her own tricks up her sleeve.

The work was loosely based from *Mary Poppins*, as with its successor. Though the "American Maid" is comparable to characters like Iyami in acting like she's from an entirely foreign culture, she is depicted as a beautiful woman in the vein of characters like Akko-chan instead, offering a contrast between her appearance and her quirkiness.

Although the situation with the childrens' mother was unstated and left ambiguous in the original serialization, reprints have an explanation added below the frontispiece stating that their mother has just given birth to another child and is busy recovering in the hospital. Because of the "maid" theme and its being a prototypical piece to *Kibimama-chan*, it was eventually included in reprints of that series as well.

## Characters

### Dad

A busy boss who's too preoccupied with work to handle his son and daughter, while his wife is out of the house. He hires one of his employees to do the job instead, and is happy to hear her "American Maid" antics worked.

### The American Maid

A young office lady posing as a maid from America, speaking in gratuitous English and exhibiting a bossy, strict personality to the two children as she sets out to complete her tasks. Her theme of a maid, and her very dress, were recycled for the lead of Kibimama-chan (and could in fact be her with a different hairstyle).

### Keiko

The older sister of the two siblings, who happens to be a tough tomboy to butt heads with the American Maid. She was imported into Kibimama-chan as Tetsuko, and then re-used again Tecchan is Back to Fighting.

### Ichiro

The younger brother, bratty and nerdy. He did not carry over to Kibimama-chan, but was re-used as Chikao in Tecchan is Back to Fighting.
Hilary Hook

### Allies

Skylar, The Shadow Crew members, Mal, Evie, Jay, Carlos De Vil, Ben, Audrey, Jane, Belle, Beast, Fairy Godmother

### Enemies

Maleficent, Uzma, The Wrath Crew members, Evil Queen, Jafar, Cruella De Vil, Madam Mim

### Family

Captain Hook (father)Unnamed mother

Harriet Hook, CJ Hook, Ashley Hook, Sally Hook, Holly Hook (older sisters)

Harry Hook, David Hook, Justin Hook, Danny Hook (older brothers)

**Hilary Hook** is the daughter of Captain Hook, the younger sister of Harriet Hook, Harry Hook, Justin Hook, CJ Hook, Ashley Hook, Sally Hook, Holly Hook, Danny Hook and David Hook. She is also part of The Shadow Crew.