A collection of short stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi. 
 
1. Otoko Ippatsu (男一発, Just a Man) 
2. Haittemasu (はいってます, Occupied) 
3. Wakaremichi (わかれみち, Forked Road) 
4. Sasori (さそり) 
5. Shiiku (飼育) 
6. Tokyo Ubasuteyama (東京うばすて山, Abandon the Old in Tokyo) 
7. Kemono Namida (けもの・なみだ) 
8. Kotsu Kotsu Kotsu (コツコツコツ, Click Click Click) 
9. ORIZURU -S-kun e no Tegami- (ORIZURU -S君への手紙-) 
10. Saikai (再会) 
11. Itoshi no Monkey (いとしのモンキー, Beloved Monkey) 
12. Goodbye (グッドバイ) 
13. Daihakken (大発見) 
 
Several of the stories in this collection were published in English by Drawn & Quarterly in the collections Abandon the Old in Tokyo and Goodbye in 2009. 
 
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Ken drinks too much at his friend Yoshio's bar, so he is put to sleep upstairs. He reminisces on his childhood, including a traumatizing experience where he walked in on Yoshio's mother having sex.
 
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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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