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This article is from the Manga FAQ, by Steve Pearl starbuck@cybercomm.net with numerous contributions by others.

39 Matsumoto Izumi $@$^$D$b$H@t(B

Matsumoto has gained more praise for picking assistants than for anything he
actually drew - his former helpers include Hagiwara and Okazaki. These days,
Matsumoto has become something of a bbs/computer otaku, and reputedly took his
modem to Anime Expo '94 (in the US).

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Kimagure Orange Road $@$-$^$0$l%*%l%s!y%8%m!<%I(B - serialized on Shonen Jump
1984-8, 1 volumes @ Y390, 10 volumes @ Y1000.
A romantic comedy centering on the love triangle between naive, indecisive
Kyosuke), who loves bad girl Madoka; her best friend Hikaru loves Kyosuke.
Kyosuke's family has psychic powers, too. As the title implies, the mood
of the manga is kimagure (whimsical, fickle, capricious), a ``corny teen
love comedy'' whose characters and situations won over many Western fans.

The manga formed the basis for a movie, 8 OAVs and a 48-episode TV series,
with character designs by Takada Akemi. The KOR novel released in 1994,
New Kimagure Orange Road, combines the endings of the manga, TV and movie,
and goes on from there. It features a 20 year old Madoka, and all other
major characters except Yusaku. Matsumoto did the basic story and did
several pages of illustrations, while Terada Kenji, screenwriter of the TV
series, did the actual writing. It has less of the kimagure feel, with
descriptions of sex, etc.

See also:
o KOR Homepage <http://ghost.pc.cc.cmu.edu/kor/>
o Shin-KOR Homepage
<http://www.teleport.com/~wakefiel/KOR/KORhome.html>

Sesame Street $@$;$5$_!z$9$H$j!<$H(B - serialized on Super Jump 1990-2, 3
volumes @ Y600.
Another love triangle (quadrangle?), consisting of a ronin, his
sister-in-law, a virgin widow, a 17 high-school girl who likes him. Like
KOR, the ending was badly botched.

"The story starts out with a wedding. The oldest son of the
family is getting married. He will inherit the family business,
which is in the grocery trade in the same location in downtown
Tokyo since the Meiji era. My Japanese isn't good enough to be
sure, but it looks like he is called away on some urgent
business even before he can go on his honeymoon. The next scene
is a funeral. Seems that the plane he was on crashed with no
survivors, although apparently his body was never specifically
identified (that idea comes later in the story).

"The main character is the younger son, Fujiya Keiki, 18, and he
studying to get into college. His mother has been dead for some
time. His grandmother lives with them, and they have a boarder -
a 16 year old high-school girl named Karin. Soon his
sister-in-law (Chitose) moves in with them because she can't
handle the rent alone. Turns out she's 19, and can't decide
whether to "be faithful" to her dead husband, or to get on with
her life. Keiki is expected to treat both of the girls like
sisters, and is finding it increasingly hard. They are both
cute, especially Karin. Keiki is in a band, and runs into a few
aggressive "groupies"...

"There's a story series in vol.2 were a company is trying to buy
out the Fujiya store location. The rep conned Keiki into doing
something he shouldn't have (some sort of promise to sell). The
rep has also picked up on Chitose (and trying to date her), and
at first no one is aware of the relationships.

"It looks like Keiki gets into college at the end of vol2.
Chitose is apparently either in college or going back to
college, and Karin is certainly planning to go. Karin seems to
like living in the Fujiya household so much that she doesn't
want to go home. She apparently has some sort of a crush on
Keiki." [SH]

Matsumoto Izumi Tampenshu Graffiti $@$^$D$b$H@tC;JT=8!!%0%i%U%#%F%#(B -
published by Shueisha, 1989, Y370.

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