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Dokudami Tenement (in Japanese 独身アパートどくだみ荘? )
Dokudami Tenement is a Japanese gekiga/manga series written and illustrated by Takashi Fukutani (福谷たかし?).

Set in Asagaya,Tokyo during the 1980s, the work explores and deals with many subcultures and social issues such as customs,yakuza, recreational drug use,infidelity,tranvestisism,addiction, fetishism,alchoholism,poverty,isolation.

Initially serialized in the pages of "Weekly Manga Times" (Yoshifusasha) from May 18th 1979 until April 2, 1993, the work was hugely popular and subsequently collected into 34 volumes by its publisher

Total sales of books recorded a total of 5 million copies.

Although the series contains challenging content the manner in which Takashi Fukutani addresses issues

Dokudami Tenement is considered noteworthy in that , and a breakthrough for both Otomo and the manga form.[2] Throughout the breadth of the work, Fukutani explores themes of social isolation, corruption, and power.

A film adaptation was released in 1988,it retained much of the main character and plot structures from the manga as well as many original scenes and settings.

Dokudami Tenement's main protagonist Yoshio became a popular voice to young.

Plot
Set in Asagaya-ku, Suginami-ku, Tokyo, the work depicting the youth of a poor man living in a tatami mat apartment. The model of the hero · Hori Yoshio is Fukutani who is the author, and there is a story drawn based on the author's true story. Although it is dirty and no flower and erotic story, a lot of readers sympathized with popularity in the life of a too miserable hero who ended up being abandoned in the end though it was going out with a woman well. Episodes dealing with HIV published in the November 4th issue of 1988, December 9th, "dealing with love and death" deals with many subcultures such as customs, yakuza , drug addicts , etc. " We received complaints from HIV and the Human Rights / Information

Characters
Hori Yoshio (ほり ヨシオ)

↵The main character of this work. 24 years old (first appearance) born in Saidaiji, Okayama prefecture. Although he was a citizen of Tokyo, he came to Tokyo as a volunteer, but he was blessed with his debut, and now he is in Asagaya, without a bathroom, no bath, toilet, kitchen co-op "Dokudami-so" with "no money, no job, no woman We are living a poverty single life of. The guitar sheds to the pawnbroker in a year after coming to Tokyo, after that he earns a living by day labor (mainly civil construction work). With extreme skill , I always think "I want to be with a woman", and when I relate to a woman, I race to rape when I see the gap, I have a boyfriend on the street, a masturbation by leaving time. Actually, however, currently it is in the middle of youth, unexpected encounters are frequented ... but I always miss that opportunity. My hobby is drinking, and when I drink , I often fall to the roadside

（ほり ミユキ）

Hori Miyuki (Hori Miyuki) Yoshio's sister. Often he scolds his older brother Yoshio, but he also has one aspect of his brother's thoughts. But with Horiya the blood is not adopted adopted (abandoned). In the process, Yoshio seemed to be committed.

（ろくた だいすけ）

Daisuke Ruta (Roku Daisuke) Residents of Dokudomiso. It is a cartoonist who can not sell. I wear glasses. Originally it was a solid personality, but it became flexible as it appeared.

（ごう ひろみ）

Aussie Hiromi Residents of Dokudomiso. I am a member of the Youth Buddy Association, an exchange circle of young people. It features a tight accent and a large hook of hair on the cheek. It is unbelievable disturbance from usual warm thickness, such as drinking alcohol and rushing to break the dog from the mouth

Movie
A movie based on the manga was Published December 24, 1988. Title is Japanese is 独身アパート どくだみ荘 It was converted into VHS in 1989, but it has not been made into DVD.

Director: Abe Hisaka Original Screenplay: Takashi Fukutani

" Weekly Manga Times " ( Yoshifusasha ) serial from May 18, 1979 to April 2, 1993 issue. Originally posted as a slogan, there were lots of voices that wanted each series to be serialized, and the series became biweekly and weekly. However, since the beginning of the 1990's, the author suffered from manneri and declared it "no longer drawing" at the 648th serialization , and it ended [1]. Center as being "discriminatory expression" [1]. New · Dokodemuso [ edit ] From 1994 in the same magazine " New · Dokudomiso " resumed the series. However, shortly afterwards, we received complaints from writers whose author Fukuya was imitated because there are many imitations of other cartoonists in Dokudomiso in the past. The person himself also acknowledged it and solved it by paying the fee for the copied imitation to the writer but regretted that he had used the work of others without permission and declared "to break the brush" with an apology, 1994 4 The series ended with only 15 times from January 1st to August 26th, and all finished with a bookbook [1]. In 2004, after the death of Fukutani's author, the magazine's January 7-14 merger issue to the February 4 issue, as an Otakara Plan Original: Fukutani Takashi, Picture: Nakagawa Kazunori, Scenario Cooperation : Yamasaki Miyaki " Dokodemuso who came back " was posted [1]. This is a content that can also be said as a completion edition, a young man who wants to be a cartoonist moved to the present Dokudomiso (room where Yoshio once occupied), writing advice from Yoshio's ghosts, and writing work, a magazine Grow up to be handed the series from the company. Finally Yoshio finished in the form of dying from gas poisoning. Tanko [ edit ] The book is a total of 35 volumes from Hoson Shokan Comics. Later, from 1994 to 1995, "New · Dokudami-so" (which is different from the new · Dokudomiso listed in the magazine) which recorded past unpatented episodes was also published in 7 volumes of Yoshifusa Comics in all, 2001 to 2004 Throughout, 13 books of cheap price comics for convenience stores were published from Yomifusa 's My Pals Comics (some episodes that have not been recorded before are included). Also in 2006, "Legend Dokudami- za Densetsu" which included Tsunuki "Dokudomisou" and the previous "Takakatani Takashi Monogatari", which was not recorded in the book, was published from Blue Forestry House. [1] . Currently both are out-of-print, but only the first published books have been converted into e-books. Characters [ edit ] [Icon]	Categories of this section are desired. ..

Translations
Dokudami Tenement has been translated into French (as Le Vagabond de Tokyo) by French publisher LeLezard Noir. Translation by Miyako Slocombe.

Dokudami Tenement has been translated into English ( as Dokudami Single Room) by Japanese/English publisher Black Hook Press.