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Series · 1995

Golden Boy

GOLDEN BOY さすらいのお勉強野郎

Genres:Comedy
A red-capped cyclist rides toward the viewer amid a pale collage of illustrated faces.
©江川達也/集英社・Softgarage

A gifted university dropout cycles around Japan, taking temporary jobs and treating his encounters as lessons unavailable in a classroom.

Kintaro’s first stop at a software company exposes the gap between academic ability and knowing how a workplace functions. His curiosity is accompanied by lechery, and sexual humour is a substantial part of the comedy. The changing jobs give the short series a new practical situation with each stop.

A young man in a backward red cap and backpack looks startled on a residential street.
Kintaro’s search for lessons takes him from one temporary job to another. ©江川達也/集英社・Softgarage

The bicycle makes Kintaro’s education a matter of movement rather than settling into one career. His startled expression in the street gives that ambition a less composed face. The premise repeatedly puts someone very capable in unfamiliar circumstances where credentials alone offer little guidance.

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