“Dying founder's nostalgic mumble about old friend Namijirou Hira accidentally appoints him as new director.”
The Director Hira Namijiro
取締役 平 並次郎
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Dying founder's nostalgic mumble about old friend Namijirou Hira accidentally appoints him as new director.
The Board of Directors at the Daitoku Automobile Corporation is locked in a bitter dispute over the appointment of a new director. Split between two factions, they seek the opinion of the company's founder, who is on his deathbed and only semi-conscious. The two men dispatched to solicit the founder's opinion get an unexpected response: "What ever happened to Namijirou Hira?" They don't realize that he was merely reminiscing about an old friend, and had no idea what the question was. And so, passing over many qualified candidates, the Board selects a nobody from a remote branch office—Mr. Namijirou Hira. (Source: Mangajin)
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A Manga Publication
- Format 52 × 5 ch × vol
- Total read 6h 56m approx
- Published Dec 1991 – Jan 1994
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M40950 catalog