Kikuni Masahiko

A boy (Takuya) meets a girl (Satsuki), both 17 years of age, and they fall in love. When she discovers his fetishes, Satsuki brands Takuya a hentai (pervert) and leaves him, only to be drawn back by the power his fetishes give her over him.

Here's a collection of off-color gags that's at once charming, disgusting and laugh-out-loud funny. Originally appearing in the pages of Pulp magazine and released now collected, the manga work is a series of 4koma, with an occasional series blown up over two full pages for striking visual effect. The lineup of endearing, albeit repulsive, characters includes a very young sex-crazed couple whose encounters parody presumptions of sexual innocence with punch lines about kinky fantasies and scatology. There's a mangaka(Kikuni himself?) whose sexual response is ritualistically heightened by humiliating comments about his minuscule penis. Then there's a daft father and son duo so poor that the boy is reduced to using soy sauce as pigment for an art class assignment. Kikuni's cute drawings work along with his twisted stories and characters to boost the works's shock value and to keep the humor fresh.

Mr. Kikuni's unprecedented arrangement of the world written by Mr. Yamagami has created an outrageous manga. The two talents reacted scientifically to create an outrageous monster. Mr. Kikuni, who respects Mr. Yamagami, does not hold back at all and draws while enjoying himself. Mr. Yamagami is half astounded (laughs), but he does an accurate check. It is a gag symphony played by two very extravagant masters.

Manga anthology based on stories by Yasutaka Tsutsui (science fiction author who previously wrote The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Paprika.)