In this realistic view into the manga industry, selling copies is the only thing that matters. So what if your first series just ended and you have no idea how to start the next one, your marriage is breaking up, your pure love of manga has been destroyed by the cruel reality of the industry and nothing seems to fill the sucking void inside you… Find the secret combo for a new hit manga series and everything will be okay. Right?
Comic Book
Five loosely connected storylines concerning the secrets and lies, the fears and tears, and the puerile potty jokes that punctuate the characters' daily (and in one eerie case, nightly) encounters.
Comic Book
켄지와 오타, 아사쿠라는 쇼치쿠고의 불량 삼인방. 두려움 없이 이웃 학교의 도발에 맞서 타격을 가지만 학교를 못찾아 되돌아 올 정도로 허당이다. 우연히 기타를 얻게 된 켄지는 친구들에게 밴드를 만들자고 제안한다. 그리하여 어쩌다 탄생한 락밴드 “고무술”. 밴드명이 왠지 익숙타 했더니 학교엔 이미 어쿠스틱 밴드 “고미술”이 있었다. 고미술의 감미로운 포크음악과 원시적이고 야성적인 고무술의 음악. 고무술의 연주에 감명받은 고미술의 리더 모리타는 고무술에게 락페스트벌 참가를 권유하는데…
Screenplay
Arakawa Ao lives happily on his own and hardly ever leaves Shimokitazawa, where he works at a vintage clothing shop, goes to occasional concerts and hangs out at his favorite bar. Then, he gets an unusual request to appear in an independent film.
Original Concept
Original Story
Nobuhiro Yamashita shoots the adaption of the City Lights manga by Hiroyuki Ohashi with three members of the Nogizaka46 idol pop band. The story is told on three levels: Documentary-style on-set where we see the film being made and the idols struggling with their roles, the resulting movie which revolves around three girls in a psychic research club discovering a classmate with super powers who turns out to be an alien and a stage adaptation of the film with the same characters.
Original Concept
