After spending the night at Jiro’s house as before, as soon as I left his mansion around lunchtime, I took a taxi and headed out to downtown Tokyo.
Sun-hee was still looking at the bustling Tokyo city, when something caught my eye.
“uh?”
Startled, I immediately told the taxi driver.
“Please stop here.”
“You mean here?”
“Yeah.”
“Okay.”
As soon as the taxi stopped, I immediately paid and got off with Seon-hee.
Seon-hee looks at me with a blank look on my face because she doesn’t know exactly what’s going on.
“Why?”
“Ah, over there.”
When I pointed to an advertisement poster on a large building across from the road, Seon-hee’s eyes turned to it.
[Takahashi Rumiko Fan Signing Event]
“Are you Rumiko Takahashi? Who is it?”
“do not know? A cartoonist who drew ‘Kids’ and ‘Majonggak’ in the studio.”
“Ah.”
She nodded her head as if she remembered it then.
But he doesn’t seem very interested.
Hagi-ya, Seon-hee-ya, although there is a lot of interest in comics, it may be a natural reaction because I’m not really interested in the artist who drew the comics.
But I am different.
Before enlisting in the military, when I went to Japan, I actually went to Ms. Rumiko’s autograph session because I like her so much.
At that time, Ms. Rumiko was already passing her middle age. As a result, it is also true that she is curious about her younger days.
It’s ’86 now, so it’s roughly 29 years old, right?
want to go.
“Let’s go over there.”
“A signing event?”
“uh.”
As I said with a twinkle in my eyes, I stared at him and then nodded my head.
“Okay.”
what is this guy
What are those eyes now?
“Why are you looking at me like that?”
“Oppa… I think he really likes manga.”
“You, aren’t you?”
“Me too, but…….”
Haha, the way this guy likes and mine isn’t the same.
Because I like to draw cartoons.
Anyway, there are a lot of people around the bookstore.
There are a lot of young men and women, and looking at the atmosphere, it is clear that most of them are gathered for the signing event.
Once I took Seon-hee and crossed over to the other side. And as I was about to enter the entrance to the bookstore, some bookstore employees came out and started to control the crowd.
“Please stand in line. It gets crowded when you go inside. Please clear that way over there. Those who are not related to the signing event can come here.”
“Please keep order.”
“Please stand next to him.”
A male employee looks at me and Seon-hee and shouts.
Wow, these people are no joke.
Ms. Rumiko, it was a well-known fact that she was very popular from the beginning, but when she came near her bookstore where an autograph session was held, she could feel the popularity.
“Oh, what about this? I want to get autographs, but there are too many people.”
“·················ogue.”
“If you wait in line, it might take hours. There are so many places to visit today.”
Then she tapped Seon-hee the day she was suffering with her head wrapped around her.
“······Why?”
“Then, how about there?”
“What?”
Seonhee pointed her finger somewhere.
A small advertising poster on the wall of the building next door.
However, there, along with a familiar picture, the word ‘signature event’ catches my eye like here.
“uh?”
Although the painting is familiar, I approached the poster just in case.
[‘Ultimate Superman R writer Yuuki Masami autograph session]
Ultimate Superman R?
Yuuki Masami.
How come I’m familiar with the picture.
She is the cartoonist of the popular cartoon ‘Patlabor’.
Thinking she should check the date, she hurriedly walked towards the poster.
“uh? today? Where?”
When I checked the location, it was a large bookstore nearby.
After all, the name of the bookstore is familiar.
This is the bookstore that Jiro heard about.
“That’s where we’ll have our autograph session tomorrow.”
I don’t know if this should be related.
Anyway, looking at the poster and looking back at Seon-hee, she also has a blank face, scratching her chin, thinking what she is thinking.