While best remembered for his 1977 golf serial Hole in One, Kanai Tatsuo 金井たつお returned for one more serial in Weekly Shonen Jump– a sports rom com titled Izumi-chan Graffiti いずみちゃんグラフィティー. This time, Kanai would both author and illustrate his manga, and the focus would be on his cute, doe-eyed female designs- and the masculine, lecherous guys waiting to pounce. Izumi-chan Graffiti debuted in late 1979 and […]
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