According to an interview with a local person in Yokote City, Akita Prefecture, it was found that the original drawings of the unfinished work of "Fisherman Sanpei", a masterpiece of Takao Yaguchi, a manga artist who died last year, will be compiled into a book.
The book will be the original picture of the unfinished work "Amenuma Scale Stripping" in the "Fisherman Sanpei Heisei Edition" series, which is Takao Yaguchi's masterpiece.
There are 41 original drawings, and it is said that the main character, Mihira, will start catching and collecting carp that have escaped to the swamp in order to save the catastrophically damaged carp farmer in Akita Prefecture, where the carp for farming was broken by a tornado. , The beginning of the story.
The story after that was not drawn because Mr. Yaguchi stopped writing manga in 2012, and Mr. Yaguchi died in November last year with the work unfinished.
All the original drawings have been donated to Yokote City and are stored in the local Masuda Manga Museum.
Although it may for some of these have been published, the executive committee made of such Yokote are collectively a series of original in prospect in March this year, is that for the first time books of understanding in an interview to the official I did.
It is expected that the original drawings will be made into books by posting them in the catalog of Mr. Yaguchi's special exhibition and distributed to libraries in Akita Prefecture.
Mr. Taku Oishi, director of the Masuda Manga Museum, said, "Since it is a work drawn by Mr. Yaguchi with all his soul, I want many people to know the footprints of the precious original drawings."