“Semi-autobiographical manga depicting a boy's life in 1940s red-light district Terajima amid poverty.”
Terajima-chou Kidan
寺島町奇譚
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Semi-autobiographical manga depicting a boy's life in 1940s red-light district Terajima amid poverty.
Inspired by Takita Yuu's own childhood in Terajima (now Higashi-Mukoujima) in the early 1940s, this manga follows the young Kiyoshi's daily life around his parents' stand-up bar in the red-light district in an era of stark poverty.
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A Manga Publication
- Format 19 × 3 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 32m approx
- Published Jan 1968 – Jan 1972
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M67564 catalog