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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!
Rummage Through Garbage Day After Day
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 27
Illustration: Tomoki Kurokawa
I spend days jumping over fences and wires day after day with a careful schedule which isn’t a match for me. Yesterday I went to the residential area in Sea Side. Today here, tomorrow there. The day after tomorrow to the back door of the fancy hotel. My backpack and pockets are full of trash!
I will leave my part-time job on the back-burner.
I've already overslept 6 times and been late for work.
Text and images: Kurando Furuya, Hitoshi Odajima, Tomoki Kurokawa
Translation: Mariko Takei
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