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A pair of dreamers strive to rise to the top of the comedy world in this story by Akinari Asakura with art by Takeshi Obata (
Death Note)!
About the author
Akinari Asakura is a novelist whose previous works include the mysteries
Ore de wa nai Enjou (I’m Not the One Being Flamed),
Kyoushitsu ga, Hitori ni naru made (Until I’m Alone in the Classroom),
Noir Revenant, and the critically acclaimed
Rokunin no Usotsuki na Daigakusei (Six Lying College Students). This is his first full-length work as a manga writer.
Takeshi Obata was born in 1969 in Niigata, Japan, and first achieved international recognition as the artist of the wildly popular Shonen Jump title
Hikaru no Go, which won the 2003 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize: Shinsei “New Hope” Award and the 2000 Shogakukan Manga Award. He went on to illustrate the smash hit
Death Note as well as the hugely successful manga
Bakuman。and
All You Need Is Kill.
Summary
A pair of dreamers strive to rise to the top of the comedy world in this story by Akinari Asakura with art by Takeshi Obata (Death Note)!
Shy Azemichi Shijima has secretly been studying the art of comedy. His outgoing classmate Taiyo Higashikata has big dreams of being funny but no follow-through. When the two team up, they just might take the comedy world by storm!
For a comedy event, the competition for the Wara-Ko preliminary round is no laughing matter! Higashikata and Shijima will have to beat Sprechchor for a second time, along with former winners Kirameki Confections. With more surprises waiting for them onstage, advancing to the Wara-Ko finals might not be so easy…
