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Fujiko Fujio: Obake no Q-tarô vol. 5
This particular segment of the Fujiko Fujio canon is out of print at the moment, but I was as lucky as to find some scans. And you know what? This thing is bloody hilarious. Someone reprint it! Immediately! I want to buy the whole series!
It's basically about a ghost called Q-tarô (Q-chan) moving in with a boy, and a bunch of his ghost relatives and friends following him and moving into the town. The "ghost" aspect doesn't have much of an significance, though, aside the fact that Q and fly and some of the other ghosts can change shape. It's a comedy.
I'm mostly fond of the story in which a gossip-loving neighborhood lady spreads rumours about the Q-chan family that Dad is out of job and they're going insane. Q-chan gets the brilliant idea of acting as though they are filthy rich so the lady will begin to spead rumous of that sort that instead, but Q-chan keeps messing up.
Boy: We have so much money! We'll buy Mount Fuji! Q: Wow, that's big. Then let's make a huge slide and charge five yen! [Five yen = five cent] Boy: That's so small. After Fuji, we'll buy Tokyo Bay! Q: Let's turn it into a fish pond and charge five yen for admission! Boy: Why do you keep making the story so cheap?! Q: It's difficult when you aren't really rich ...
I don't know why, but the five yen joke struck right home with me.
Category: Shonen/seinen | Posted by Alicia at October 1, 2004 11:54 AM