Kishibe Rohan Tanpen Shousetsushuu

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Volume 1: Kishibe Rohan wa Sakebanai (2018/06/19)
1. Kushagara (くしゃがら) [Kitakuni Ballad]; 2017-08 Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai: Tanpen Shousetsushuu vol. 1
At Café Deux Magots, Rohan organizes his material for a new story when he is caught by a fellow manga artist who had the same idea, Juugo Shishi. Juugo starts making small talk with Rohan, such as his change of editor. His new editor gave him a list of prohibited terms for manga, but Juugo found a word on the list that he wasn't familiar with, "kushagara." Jugo didn't understand the meaning of the word or why it was prohibited. He tried to investigate about "kushagara" but couldn't find anything meaningful. After telling Rohan about it, Juugo asks Rohan to immediately inform him if he finds any clues. About a month later, Rohan and Juugo coincidentally reunite at an antiquarian bookstore. Rohan gets the feeling that Juugo is extraordinarily obsessed with the meaning of "kushagara" and tries to find out what is happening to him. The word "kushagara" used in the story is set as a substitute term for an actual prohibited term that cannot be written. People who are interested in this word gradually become oblivious to other things as they try to investigate it.

2. Blackstar. (Blackstar.) [Yoshigami Ryou]; 2017-08 Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai: Tanpen Shousetsushuu vol. 1
At the café, Rohan gets in touch with a man named Gabriel Agent. One week prior, Rohan was contacted by Gabriel, who claimed to be from the Speedwagon Foundation, and had a request for Rohan. The agent wanted a portrait of a person and offered Rohan $500,000. Rohan is bewildered by the amount of the reward, but when he hears that the name of the person is "Spaghetti Man," Rohan agrees. Rohan had actually recently encountered Spaghetti Man and was the only one who survived, so he tells the story to Gabriel. Targeting those who notice his existence in photos, the Spaghetti Man sucks his victims into a black hole on his chest.

3. Chi Shiorimidoro (血栞塗, Blood-Stained Bookmark) [Miyamoto Mirei]; 2018-01 Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai: Tanpen Shousetsushuu vol. 3
Investigating fugu poisoning, Rohan visits the library in S City and asks the librarian to take out the rare book "Introduction to Eating Fugu" from the closed stacks. There were only a few people in the library, and Rohan finds out that people stopped coming due to a rumor that finding a "bright red bookmark" caught between the books there would cause unhappiness. Interested in the story, Rohan begins searching for bookmarks while the librarian goes to the closed stack library to get the book he wanted. However, in the children's corner, Rohan discovers the "Introduction to Eating Fugu" book, which shouldn't be there. Upon opening it, he sees the bright red bookmark.

4. Kenetsu Houteishiki (検閲方程式, Censored Equation) [Iba Yuusuke]; 2017-09 Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai: Tanpen Shousetsushuu vol. 2
Rohan was asked by Shueisha to write a short story on the theme of encountering the unknown, and so he visits a university library near Morioh to find out about aliens. Yuuto Chikamori, a graduate student, assists Rohan in finding documents because he was Rohan's fan. However, Rohan was interested in Chikamori's notebook that was placed on the desk. Rohan finds a partially torn page with a mathematical formula on it. When asking Chikamori about it, the student reacts strangely and reveals that it was a fragment of a mathematical formula to interfere with another dimension. It is said that his girlfriend became unconscious in the middle of trying to solve it. Assuming the cause of his girlfriend's state was due to the equation, Chikamori attempted to solve it but could not do so due to it being incomplete. Since his girlfriend had little time left to live, Chikamori pleads with Rohan to use this in his short story to bring attention to it and find any clues. Rohan becomes curious about his story and goes to the hospital where Chikamori's lover was hospitalized to find out the truth.

5. Okami-sama (オカミサマ) [Kitakuni Ballad]; kakioroshi
Rohan visits a tax office where his tax accountant, Seiko Sakanoue, preaches to him about how he should manage his money. His story of "I bought six mountains just for collecting data on the Yokai legend and went bankrupt" was particularly disturbing to her. While Rohan acts as if he's remorseful, Seiko finds a receipt with "Okami-sama" written in the address field. Rohan asks about it, and Seiko reveals that if you write "Okami-sama" as the recipient of a receipt, the fact that you would have to pay for it disappears. However, Rohan couldn't hear the whole story as Seiko received a call from another guest. Interested in the effects, Rohan tries out writing "Okami-sama" on his way back from the fan event that he appeared in.


Volume 2: Kishibe Rohan wa Tawamurenai (2018/07/19)
1. Koufuku no Hako (幸福の箱, Box of Happiness) [Kitakuni Ballad]; 2017-08 Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai: Tanpen Shousetsushuu vol. 1
Rohan is called to the home of Ikkei Gozan, an antique dealer with whom he was acquainted with, under the pretext of "I want to show you a strange item." He places an item wrapped in furoshiki in front of Rohan called the "Happiness Box," which apparently has happiness packed inside. Rohan becomes angry thinking that Gozan was scheming something and is about to go home without touching the box. However, the furoshiki wrapping suddenly unravels itself to reveal innumerable ceramic pieces. Rohan becomes irritated that he was falling for Gozan's trick. He then understands that it is actually a puzzle and could only be assembled by someone with special talents such as a Stand user. Thus, Rohan starts assembling the box out of curiosity.

2. Yuuyanagidai (夕柳台) [Miyamoto Mirei]; 2017-09 Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai: Tanpen Shousetsushuu vol. 2
Rohan sketches children playing in the park in search of the reality necessary for drawing his next one-shot work. Rohan is about to leave before being treated as a suspicious person, but notices that one child is touching his sketchbook. Rohan tells him to apologize for tampering with his work tools, but the boy doesn't. After a while, his mother appears and apologizes on behalf of her son. She tells Rohan a mysterious story about the reason why he "does not apologize." The boy, Ken-chan, was playing at a park in Yuuyanagidai where they used to live when he was suddenly attacked by a laughing black monkey. Since then, Ken could no longer speak. Curious, Rohan asks Ken to sketch the monkey.

3. Symmetry Room (シンメトリー・ルーム) [Kitakuni Ballad]; 2018-01 Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai: Tanpen Shousetsushuu vol. 3
Rohan is informed that the president of Morioh University of Information and Communication Technology had died, and so he visits the university for coverage. He meets Shohei Tsuchiyama there, the architect who was in charge of the new school building's construction. Rohan gradually becomes dissatisfied with the man's aesthetic sense and professionalism, as he was only obsessed with symmetry. As Rohan brings this up to him, the architect does not listen and informs Rohan that he is now trapped in the multipurpose hall on the fifth floor of the new school building, which is his masterpiece and the president's death site. Rohan immediately tries to escape, but is also attacked by a mystery that seems to have killed the president there.

4. Rakuen no Ochibo (楽園の落穂, Gleams of Paradise) [Yoshigami Ryou]; kakioroshi
Rohan is asked to work by a culinary magazine publisher and visits a recently opened casual French restaurant in Morioh to hear their presentation. The editor of the magazine, Toshiya Utsurogi, tells Rohan of their plans to publish a monthly collaboration gourmet manga with a popular writer in their magazine and Rohan as the artist. Rohan is reluctant because of the difference in style from his normal works. Utsurogi then tells Rohan about the Gleanings of Paradise, which is said to be a legendary variety of wheat that can change the composition of the person who eats it. Utsurogi believes it could cure his daughter's allergy to wheat. He heard that a friend from his college days, Shouzo Yaginuma, was growing that wheat. Thus, Rohan decides to go with Utsurogi to visit Yaginuma's cultivation area.


Volume 3: Kishibe Rohan wa Taorenai (2022/12/19)
1. Ougon no Melody (黄金のメロディ, Golden Melody) [Kitakuni Ballad]; 2021-11 Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai: Tanpen Shousetsushuu vol. 4
Twenty-year-old Rohan Kishibe meets an audiophile named Kyoumei Isaka, owner of the audio appliance store Sakamochi Record in Sakamochi Town of T Prefecture. When Rohan first met him, Kyomei was a lazy teenager who was not at all business savvy and took pleasure in showing his superiority towards people over his audio equipment. Rohan immediately saw his attitude and reprimanded him for how lazy and arrogant he was and told him that if he is going to "pursue" one medium to devote his life to, he should put his all into it. Inspired by Rohan's words, Kyoumei's life suddenly turns around. He spends the rest of the day helping Rohan out finding the equipment that suits his needs, and they parted ways from each other. Seven years later, Kyouka Izumi hands Rohan a postcard addressed to him from Kyomei, inviting him to meet at Sakamochi Record at exactly four PM next week.

2. Gensakusha Kishibe Rohan (原作者 岸辺露伴, Original Author Rohan Kishibe) [Kitakuni Ballad]; 2021-11 Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai: Tanpen Shousetsushuu vol. 4
The twenty-seven-year-old Rohan rejects the proposal of filming a live action movie of his past work Ijinkan no Shinshi which was a short-term serialization in omnibus form, following a protagonist tasked with looking after an old western-style manor encountering various monstrosities settling in or approaching the manor in separate episodes. The head editor of Shueisha's Bessatsu Just Magazine Tango Shirohara, who was also the assigned editor to Rohan when he debuted, worries if Rohan's refusal stems from a disastrous incident during filming of the abandoned live action miniseries of the same work seven years earlier.

3. 5LDK ○○ Tsuki (5LDK○○つき, The Five-Bedroom House with a...) [Kitakuni Ballad]; kakioroshi
There's a house whose inhabitants vanish every June. Invited by Reisui Takashima, an eccentric photographer, Rohan visits the house as a guest...


(Source: JoJo Wiki, edited)