Interest
Detective Conan, Touch, Ushio & Tora Manga Creators Crash Local Tsutaya Store
posted on by Kim Morrissy
It all began when Blazing Transfer Student manga artist Kazuhiko Shimamoto spotted someone drawing grafitti on the ceiling in a Tsutaya store in Sapporo. He tweeted about it, saying, "I've got to go over there and tell him off!" However, the person he caught on camera seemed to be drawing some familiar faces...
うちの書店の壁に…何か落書きしている人がいるんだけど…コレは注意しなくちゃ!!#あだち充 #青山剛昌 pic.twitter.com/06UlsWYmNT
— 漫画家島本和彦 (@simakazu) September 30, 2019
It turns out that the so-called grafitti artist was Gōshō Aoyama, creator of the Detective Conan manga himself. He is quickly joined by Mitsuru Adachi, the creator of the classic baseball manga Touch. Shimamoto informed Twitter that these two artists have a request: "Please, there's one more person coming. Please let him do a doodle too!" Shimamoto tweeted, "Guess I have no choice but to let this 'Fujita' person do his thing."
うちの書店の壁に勝手に落書きを描いた2人が「お願いだからこの壁にもう1人、藤田と言う人間にもぜひ落書きをさせてくれ…」と言って帰ったので「藤田」と言う人が来たら壁に落書きを書かせるしかない。 #あだち充 #青山剛昌 #ツタヤ札幌インター店 https://t.co/3lIzXncwXv pic.twitter.com/osM0DrcyLp
— 漫画家島本和彦 (@simakazu) October 1, 2019
Shimamoto seems to regret this decision momentarily, when the security cameras show him the identity of Fujita. "'Sir! Look at the security camera footage!' Wh...WHAT?! WHAT'S GOING ON?!"
「社長!この監視カメラ映像を見てください!!」…あれ……ぇ……えッ!?これは!?なんだ何が起こってるんだ???
— 漫画家島本和彦 (@simakazu) October 5, 2019
#藤田和日郎 #Tsutaya札幌インター店 pic.twitter.com/53MnIlxcF3
One of the hashtags in Shimamoto's tweet reads "Kazuhiro Fujita", the name of the creator of Ushio & Tora. Shimamoto's next tweet shows him sprinting towards the bookstore without delay.
早く…早く…‼︎‼︎一刻も早く行かないと‼︎‼︎ pic.twitter.com/V5P4dtkKSQ
— 漫画家島本和彦 (@simakazu) October 5, 2019
Shimamoto tries to get Fujita to come off the ladder. A battle ensues. "Don't come into people's stores and doodle on their precious white walls!"
こらっ‼︎勝手に何やってる⁈降りろ‼︎…引き摺り下ろしてやるッ‼︎‼︎ pic.twitter.com/PNLHxrpY6P
— 漫画家島本和彦 (@simakazu) October 5, 2019
人の大切な店の白い壁に勝手に落書きをしやがって〜〜〜〜〜‼︎‼︎#藤田和日郎 #TSUTAYA札幌インター店 pic.twitter.com/45gS8IqvZ2
— 漫画家島本和彦 (@simakazu) October 5, 2019
Once Shimamoto calms down, he looks at the drawings and admits they're actually pretty good. In fact, they're more than good - they're great. "Perhaps I misunderstood those guys," Shimamoto tweeted.
ご来店ありがとうございます‼︎せっかくいらしたのですから何か一冊でも買っていってツメ跡残していただけると非常にありがたく嬉しいです(笑)。 https://t.co/Ha3GIwVSmQ
— 漫画家島本和彦 (@simakazu) October 4, 2019
…全てが終わって落ち着いてみると、いや、なかなかすばらしい落書きだ…コレは見る価値がある落書きじゃないか。なんてことだ。もしかしたら俺は奴を誤解していたのかもしれない…。色々な人に見ていただきたい素晴らしい迫力のある落書きだ!!#藤田和日郎 #TSUTAYA札幌インター店 pic.twitter.com/iTTXBxCxIe
— 漫画家島本和彦 (@simakazu) October 5, 2019
It was obvious from the start that this was all just a big joke and everyone had proper permission to put up their drawings, but Shimamoto's quirky humor about his fellow creative friends is very reminiscent of his work on Aoi Honō, a fictionalized account of Shimamoto's days at the Osaka University of Arts alongside Hideaki Anno, Hiroyuki Yamaga, and others.
The drawings by Aoyama, Adachi, and Fujita are still up at the Tsutaya branch at the Sapporo Interchange, for those who are interested.
[Via Yara-On!]
