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2027
- Contract
- In Conclusion
- Quit Time Company
- The Radio GEMPEG Show 4
- A Call from the Man
- A Man With Hat
- The Radio GEMPEG Show 3
- Lost in Talking
- A Curious Phone Call
- The Radio GEMPEG Show 2
- Phone Call From 21LO
- The Radio GEMPEG Show
- Challenge the Audio Network
- Return From the Darkness
- Are You There?
- Advertising of GEMPEG
- Piles of Stock
- GEMPEG
- Rotary Press
- Cut and Paste
- Edit the Picked Up Trash
- Rummage Through Garbage Day After Day
- Inside the Garbage Bag
- At 27:42 A.M. on June 8th in 2027
- The Late Alien
- Meet at 3 A.M.
- The Backlash Against Paper Media
- The 21LO’s Room
- 21LO
- Future
- I WANT TO MAKE A BOOK, TOO.
- EXPO 2015
- Hundred Sound of Bracket
- Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts
- The Medium is the Message
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- No Life King
- Book of Life
- Unfinished TV
- TV Dinner
- The Young K, Time Alone
- Curry St.24
- Freezed Desire To Labor
- Time Company
- Sluggish Days
- I'm K
- Newspaper has gone
- Year 2027!
Future
It's 2027. Born in 2007, the main character K has no girlfriend and is part of a cultural minority with few friends. In a paperless age with no books, magazines and newspapers, K collects the old media of the 20th century. His little dream is to "make a book" with his friend 21LO! But it goes against the law to make books in the age when the distribution or even printing is impossible and severely restricted without an official government emblem...
EPISODE 19
Graphic design: Hisashi Okawa
Who has ever imagined such 2020’s? Every edgy part has been chipped off, it seems like everything has settled nicely. Only the edge thing is what parents say. I’m going to quite the part time job by tomorrow and will escape. And then I will head to the sea. From there I will transfer to a cruiser heading to the Pacific Ocean. An extravagant life on a tropical island. Having enormous amount of champagne, I will go to sleep with a woman. And, surrounded by shells I will sleep at the bottom of the sea. Oh, this is something like I’ve seen on MTV.
Does the 20 years later I’ve imagined in the past seem something like this gloomy? Did I pay the rent of this month? Has the utility charge been deducted this month? Why should I pay utility charge in the first place? A gray rat puts a tap by the doorway and leaves. I feel like as if I’m watching the banned David Lynch film. I want a machine which I can dream a perfect dream. I want someone to let me out of the gloomy room. Please change the scene.
Text and images: Kurando Furuya, Hitoshi Odajima, Tomoki Kurokawa
Translation: Mariko Takei
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