Alternative TitlesEnglish: Hiroki Endo's Short Stories Synonyms: Endo Hiroki Tanpenshu, Endou Kouki Tanpenshu, Hiroki Endo Short Stories, High School Girl 2000, The Crows, the Girl and the Yakuza, Because You're Definitely a Cute Girl, For Those of Us Who Don't Believe in God, Boys Don't Cry Japanese: 遠藤浩輝短編集
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 2
Chapters: 7
Status: Finished
Published: 1997 to 2001
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SynopsisHiroki Endo's Tanpenshu is a two tankōbon series long collection of various short manga by Hiroki Endo. "Tanpenshu" is Japanese for "short stories".
Volume 1:
"The Crows, the Girl and the Yakuza" Originally published in 1996 in Monthly Afternoon. A lone yakuza member takes refuge from a gang war with a young woman who seems to have formed a strange relationship with crows. During his time with her, he comes to reconsider the course of his own life.
"Because You're Definitely a Cute Girl" Originally published in 1996 in Monthly Afternoon. A young girl's bewilderment over sex is overloaded by her widower father's decision to take a lover, driving her to a sudden swing from passive indifference to reactionary violence.
"For Those of Us Who Don't Believe in God" Originally published in 1997 in Monthly Afternoon. Centers around a group of college drama students preparing and performing a play depicting a conversation between a serial killer and the sister of one of his victims. The process causes the group to reflect and ultimately confront their own individual problems.
Volume 2:
"Hang" Originally published in 2000 in Afternoon Season Special Edition.
"High School Girl 2000" Originally published in 1999 in Afternoon Season Special Edition. A semi-autobiographical story featuring Hiroki Endo being distracted from doing work.
"Platform" Originally published in 1996 in Monthly Afternoon.
"Boys Don't Cry" |
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