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Phone Call From 21LO

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 38

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The next day my ear equipment received a call from 21LO. Today a cleaning official is supposed to come. Sleepy hell.

K “Yeah. What’s the matter? I was sleeping.”
2 “Hey. Wake up! The sky looks like it's new year’s day!”
K “Yes. I was sleeping. What is it?”
2 “We got loads of feedbacks\.”
K “Oh, what’s that?”
2 “Many feedbacks on the radio show yesterday.”
K “Ho!”
2 “All the mail is like “talk is fun”, “I want the book” things like that.”
K “Wooow!”
2 “Might hit the jackpot.”
K “Gee! Thank you for the good news in the morning.”
2 “Well, you have time this afternoon, don’t you?”
K “What did you say? I must go to work. Do you block my path?”
2 “What are you trying to say?”
K “I have common sense.”
2 “Fake being sick to skip work and hurry up to my place!”
K “I talked too much last night. My voice is cracked.”
2 “It’s a good time to have a cracked voice, isn’t it?”
K “Yeah, right. OK! I”ll be there right away!”


Text and images: Kurando Furuya, Hitoshi Odajima, Tomoki Kurokawa
Translation: Mariko Takei

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