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色あせない面白さ 「少年マーケッター五郎」しりあがり寿著:Works that never fade “Shonen Marketer Goro” by Shiriagari Kotobuki

 いわゆるサラリーマン三部作の最終巻です。主人公は,10歳にしてM.I.T.の経営課程を修了したというマーケティングの天才小学生,五郎です。

 This is the last volume of the salaryman trilogy. The main character is an elementary school boy called Goro who is a genius in marketing, and he earned his MBA degree from M.I.T at the young age of 10.

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 少年マーケッター五郎の事務所には,商品開発に関する様々な相談が毎日のように持ち込まれます。話を聞いた五郎はその場で画期的なアイデアを出し,顧客の度肝を抜くのでした。五郎の提案する商品のいくつかを挙げてみると,一本のシャフトに全てのヘッドはおろか缶切りまで備えたゴルフクラブ,1分1秒をも惜しむサラリーマンの夢のシェーバー「電気ヒゲノリ」,そして,日本の農業問題を解決するレーシングタイプの田植え機など,常識を凌駕した非常識なものばかりで,ずっとクスクス笑ってしまいます。

 Many clients visit Goro’s office every day to consult him about their product development. Goro always takes them aback because he comes up with epoch-making ideas as soon as he listens to them. The items he offers them are, for example, a golf club which has all kinds of head and even a can opener on a shaft, an electric shaver called “Denki Higenori” which is a dreamy one for salarymen who grudge the time, and a racing type rice-planting machine which might be able to solve Japanese agricultural problems. These products are something utterly absurd beyond the bounds of common sense so I can’t stop giggling while reading this comic.

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 この巻の後半には,会社員ものから歴史ものまで含んだ多彩な短編が収録されています。ギャグ漫画としていずれも秀逸で,こちらも笑いが止まりません。特に気に入っているものとして,簡潔であるべき企画書を全三十巻の大作に仕上げ,会議で朗々と読み上げる男を描いた「社内文豪」,とある藩のお家断絶を狙う将軍と、その藩主との笑いの攻防を描いた「お家断絶笑って許して!!」などがあります。これらの作品の画風は様々で,ときに「いちにのアッホ」のコンタロウ風,またある作品では「鉄人28号」の横山光輝風,さらには,「ゴルゴ13」のさいとう・たかを風と,遊び心満載で,しりあがり寿さんの自在な筆致に圧倒されます。1996年の作品ですが,今でも時々読み返しては喜んでいます。

 In the second half of this volume, you can see various types of short pieces which has a wide range of contents from the story about salarymen to historical ones. They are superb as gag comics so I can’t stop laughing. The one especially I like is a piece called “Shanai Bungo” which is a story about a guy who put together a proposal, which should be concise, in 30 volumes of books to read out loud in a meeting. Another piece I like very much is called “Oie Danzetsu Waratte Yurushite”, depicting a gag battle of attack and defence between a Shogun, who tries to extinguish a lord’s family line, and the lord. Shiriagari’s styles are varied and some of them look like other cartoonist's style such as Kontaro who publidhed “Ichi Ni no Ahho”, Yokoyama Mitsuteru who published “Tetsujin 28 Go”, and Saito Takao who created “Golgo 13”. I’m overwhelmed by his perfectly playful and free style. This comic was published in 1996, but I sometimes enjoy it, even now.

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少年マーケッター五郎 (Bamboo comics)

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