Izu Mantama Blues

Tamakichi Sakura's long-awaited short comic collection! Life in the mountains of Izu is tough and interesting! A wandering manga artist, Tamakichi Sakura, leaves the manga cafe where he has lived for a long time and moves to the mountains of Izu! This was the start of his daily struggle against nature! This is the 2017 entry of the Izu Mantama series. It includes entries published between 2014 and 2015 : in the Comic Beam (non 4-koma entries) and in the Weekly Famitsu (for 4-koma entries). (From Kadokawa, translated)

The summer sun is getting harder and harder to bear every year, the winter mountains are getting colder and colder, and the threat of a new virus is creeping up on us. And yet, the deadline has come again this month! While living a self-restrained life in the mountains of Izu, a state of emergency is always declared! (From Kadokawa, translated) This 2021 entry in the Izu Mantama series includes 4koma published in the weekly Famitsu between 2018/7/5 and 2020/12/24, and chapters published in Comic Beam between 2019/1/12 and 2020/9/12