Contains nine stories originally published between 1970 and 1972. Also includes "Choushou ̄Ten Gong", a previously uncollected 50-page work first seen in the pages of Weekly Manga Times in 1979 and reprinted here for the first time. 
1. Jigoku (地獄) 
2. Occupied (はいってます) 
3. Just a Man (男一発) 
4. Who Are You? (さそり) 
5. Shiiku (飼育) 
6. Abandon the Old in Tokyo (東京うばすて山) 
7. Beloved Monkey (いとしのモンキー) 
8. Good-bye (グッドバイ) 
9. Choushou: Ten Gong (弔鐘ーテンゴング)

An ailing author of children's manga finds out that his serial is being cancelled. Feeling sick after eating, he throws up on the wall of a bathroom stall and finds offensive graffiti. He finds himself unable to forget about the graffiti. Inspired after receiving an offer to draw for an adult magazine, he rushes to the bathroom and draws a nude woman. However, as he had entered the woman's bathroom instead, a woman sees him and calls for help.
 
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Kenichi Nakamura, a garbage hauler, takes care of his bedridden and guilt-inducing mother.

A factory worker, who keeps a pet monkey, is forced off a packed train at the wrong stop. He visits the Ueno Zoo, where the monkeys get agitated at him. One day, in a fit of anger, he writes a resignation letter.

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