This book contains 23 stories from the final year of an era dominated by one-shot manga, the year 1983! Experience series from acclaimed manga artists that were originally featured in magazines like Shonen Jump, Shonen Sunday, Shonen Magazine, and Shonen Champion. The book also features columns on Shonen Sunday and a look back at pop culture in 1983. 1. **Uchuu Kara no Otoshidama** (宇宙からのおとし玉) \[Fujiko F Fujio\] 2. **Yoru no Kuufukusha-tachi** ( 夜の空腹者たち) \[Naoki Urasawa\] 3. **Boku to Furio to Koutei de** (ぼくとフリオと校庭で) \[Daijiro Morohoshi\] 4. **Warau Mokuteki** (笑う標的) \[Rumiko Takahashi\] 5. **POCKY** \[Hisashi Eguchi\] 6. **Arisa☆Arisa** (ありさ☆ありさ) \[Fujihiko Hosono\] 7. **1, 2, Step!** (1・2・ステップ!) \[Hideo Aya\] 8. **Umi Monogatari** (海ものがたり) \[Ayumi Tachihara\] 9. **Hashire! Biitoruzu** (走れ!びーとるず) \[Akira Oze\] 10. **Nanpa-chan (Part 1)** (ナンパちゃん(Part1)) \[Satosumi Takaguchi\] 11. **I Am U-tousei** (アイアムU等生) \[Youji Fukuyama\] 12. **Adauchi Miko-chan** (仇討ちミコちゃん) \[Tatsuhiko Yamagami\] 13. **Tabun The Gigolo** (多分・ザ・ジゴロ) \[Yoshinori Kobayashi\] 14. **Super Kanbee** (すーぱー勘兵衛) \[Yuu Koyama\] 15. **Yuusei Kara no Bishoujo X** (遊星からの美少女X) \[Miki Tori\] 16. **Sleeping Beauty** \[Keiko Fukuyama\] 17. **Solar Sniper** (ソーラー・スナイパー) \[Yuki Hijiri\] 18. **Kakashitei** (案山子亭) \[Yousuke Takahashi\] 19. **Zenkai Jitterbug!!** (全開ジルバ!!) \[Masahiro Shibata\] 20. **Ryouma wa Kaze** (竜馬は風) \[Kei Tsukasa\] 21. **Kaere Ringu e!** (かえれリングへ!) \[Ryouji Ryuusaki\] 22. **CITY HUNTER -XYZ-** (シティハンター-XYZ-) \[Tsukasa Houjo\] 23. **Hanatare Joudo** (はなたれ浄土) \[Osamu Tezuka\]
Collections of one-shots that won the monthly Hop Step Award from 1987 to 1996.
Tomoko, because she is overweight, is cruelly turned down after confessing her love to Akira. She then decide to fast in order to lose weight. Remake of the Kazuo Umezu's one-shot of the same name.
Follow the lives of a family whose town is cast under a spell of growing younger instead of growing older.
A detective comedy set in a detective agency owned by Kogoro Shirachi, a third-rate detective, and Mitsukuni Toda, an assistant, which is hijacked by the Suzuki family centered on Suzuki Sushi Maru, who is an elementary school student returning from Musho, and becomes a strange family comedy.
This is the author's third collection of short stories. A masterpiece that Eguchi himself worked on from the binding to the composition and the layout of the characters. It was featured in the weekly photo magazine "Hisashi Eguchi Revival" and introduced as a friendship story between Eguchi and the owner of a coffee shop. Various short stories from 1985 to 1988 are recorded in this work, centering on the title work "Hisashi Eguchi no NANTOKA NARUDESHO!", serialized in "Monthly ASUKA". In addition to Eguchi's work, the works of doujinka Anju & Shion are also included.