Han Kakusai Short Stories: 67sai no Shinjin (Big Comics)

[Machine Translation] Debut of a 67-year-old newcomer! Miraculous first book! An overwhelming gem that even professional manga artists admire! A 67-year-old newcomer, Hitoshi HANKAKU, who caused a stir in the manga industry when he won the Rookie of the Year Award for his shocking work "The Man Who Lives in the Mountains. This miraculous first book contains six of his short stories, which have been praised by professionals for their originality and initial impetus. Mr. Ryoichi Ikegami is in awe! This is a manga with a deep feeling that goes beyond the manga category! Poisonous, insane characters, discomfort as common sense is disturbed, eroticism...it reminds me of absurdist literature such as Kafka and Camus. He is a genius! Thank you very much for subscribing to "The Short Stories of Hitoshi Hankaku, a Sixty-Seven-Year-Old Newcomer. The title of this book, "An Old and Curious Beast Found in a Primitive Forest in Hokkaido! I am ashamed to say that the title of this book is very powerful.... I was born in Hokkaido and still inhabit the Tokachi region. It has been my dream to become a manga artist since I was in the first grade of elementary school. However, my drawing ability did not improve and I could not create any stories at all, and by the time I entered high school, I had failed. Even though my dream was broken, I had to go on living. I qualified as a judo therapist and opened an osteopathic clinic. However, the number of patients did not grow at all, and I had no time for work. Time passed by in my idle state. At the age of forty-five, I decided to become a cartoonist again. However, I was unsuccessful in more than 20 contests, and my dream never came true, and I aged 50...60 years. But I did not fail. Because drawing manga had become a habit for me. I hope you enjoy reading my manga, which has become a habit, more than a little. August 10, 2010 Han Kaku Qi

67歳の新人、デビュー! 奇跡の初単行本! プロ漫画家たちも称賛する圧倒的な原石! 衝撃作『山で暮らす男』で新人賞を受賞し、業界を騒然とさせた67歳の新人・ハン角斉。漲る初期衝動と独自の世界観でプロも称賛する氏の読切6編を収めた奇跡の初単行本! 池上遼一氏、感嘆! 「漫画であり、漫画の範疇をも超えた深い読後感! 毒、狂気じみた人物像、常識がくるわされていく違和感、エロティシズム…カフカやカミュのような不条理文学を彷彿とさせる。異才だ!」【作者・ハン角斉氏より】 この度は『六十七歳の新人 ハン角斉短編集』ご購読ありがとうございます。この本のタイトルですけど「北海道の原始林で老いた珍獣発見!」って感じで迫力があるのですけど、さすがに恥ずかしいです…。私は北海道で生まれ、今も十勝地方で生息しています。漫画家になるのは小一の時からの夢でした。しかし、画力は伸びずストーリーも全く作れず高校に入る頃には挫折してしまいました。夢が破れても生きて行かねばなりません。柔道整復師の資格を取り整骨院を開業しました。しかし患者数が全く伸びず、仕事は暇でした。暇のまま時だけが過ぎて行きました。暇を持てあましていた私は、四十五歳にして再び漫画家をめざす事にしました。しかしコンテストには二十回以上落選を続け、夢は叶う事なく、五十歳…六十歳と私は老化して行きました。でも挫折する事はありませんでした。なぜなら、私は漫画を描く事が習慣になってしまっていたからです。習慣になった私の漫画を、すこし以上に楽しんで読んでいただけたら幸いです。二〇二二年八月十日 ハン角斉