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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!
A Call from the Man
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 45
Ring Ring......
Ring Ring......
It rings. It will ring. It will ring for sure. That’s what I thought one afternoon.
It was Hohman as I expected.
Hohman "Hello. It's Hohman, the mystery man"
K "Ahh...... What kind of joke is it?"
Hohman "Don't be so serious. I'm looking forward to becoming your business partner. I'd like to meet you soon. The other day, I had some drinks with 21LO for a short time"
K "You said business partner, but we haven't decided it yet......"
Hohman "Sure. It's just the beginning"
K "Right"
Hohman "Actually, I've worked as a host for a pirate radio station when I was a student. It was about 20 years ago. I don't mean because of that, but I feel close to your valiant act strongly. I haven't felt like this for a long time"
K "Thank you"
Hohman "I'm the one who should thank you because you encouraged me. My radio show wasn't popular....... And at the time, we were in the dawn of the pirate radio, so there was little possibility to it..... As a voice of the young people, you two are really fabulous. Please blow your art in my company CREAM!"
K "Blow..... Hmm...... Let's talk anyway"
Hohman "Thank you. I'm glad to hear that"
Fixed on a time and place to meet, I hung up the call.
Hohman on the phone wasn't that bad guy as was expected.
I was surprised by the fact that he has worked on the radio before.
How about this?
We discuss this matter on the radio show?
Text and images: Kurando Furuya, Hitoshi Odajima, Tomoki Kurokawa
Translation: Mariko Takei
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