Gosho Aoyama's Collection of Short Stories
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| Author: | Gosho Aoyama |
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| Release date: | February 15, 1994 (original release) February 25, 2011 (renewal edition) |
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| ISBN: | 4-09-123172-1 (original release) 4-09-122794-5 (renewal edition) |
| Publisher: | Shogakukan |
Throughout his years as a manga artist, Gosho Aoyama has created a handful of standalone short stories. The short stories have been collected and put together as a single volume a few times under the title Gosho Aoyama's Collection of Short Stories (青山剛昌短編集 Aoyama Gosho Tanpenshū).
Contents
Detective George's Mini-Mini Big Strategy
The Great Detective Appears！
Monster of the Ice Country
I AM A DENTIST
Play It Again
Excalibur
The Santa Claus of Summer
Wait For Me
Wait For Me (ちょっとまってて Chotto Mattete) is a one-shot manga about high school genius Yutaka Takai (高井 豊 Takai Yutaka) who invents a time machine in order to go back in time and be the same age as his girlfriend Mamiko Abe (阿部 麻巳子 Abe Mamiko) only for complications to arise. This short story was Gosho Aoyama's manga debut, published in Shonen Sunday in 1986. The short story was selected for Shogakukan's Shinjin Comic Taisho (Newcomer's Award for Comics) and launched his career as a manga artist.
Plot
High school genius Yutaka Takai is sick and tired of being called "young" and feels embarrassed about what people would think if he and his girlfriend Mamiko Abe, two years his elder, were seen together. To solve his problem, Yutaka builds a time machine with the intent of going back in time two years in order to be the same age as Mamiko. Mamiko expressed her concerns about there being two Yutakas around, but Yutaka explains that his younger self will simply be erased from the time-stream. While Yutaka is distracted just before using the machine, Mamiko takes the machine, sets the dial for the future, and jumps off the school roof, telling Yutaka to "Wait for me". Alarmed, Yutaka discovers that Mamiko has set herself forward two years in time and that everyone, including Mamiko's family, is beginning to forget she ever existed. If Yutaka forgets, Mamiko will end up falling to her death at the school two years later. Despite Yutaka's best efforts, he too forgets about Mamiko's existence, although two years later something seems to be nagging at his mind. What was the important thing he had forgotten?
Characters
─The Wandering Red Butterfly─
The Wandering Red Butterfly (さまよえる赤い蝶 Samayoeru Akai Chō) is a one-shot manga about private detective Yusaku Kitakata (北方 優作 Kitakata Yūsaku) and a mysterious woman who refers to herself as "The Wandering Red Butterfly" (さまよえる赤い蝶 Samayoeru Akai Chō) who gives him a cryptic message in a phonecall. When this story was animated, Yusaku Kitakata and "The Wandering Red Butterfly" were replaced by Yusaku Kudo and Yukiko Kudo respectively, and the story was fleshed out a bit more.
Plot
"The Wandering Red Butterfly" calls Yusaku Kitakata while he's out driving around the city in his car. The woman gives him a cryptic message which Kitakata records and plays back, working through the message in order to finally meet up with her.
Characters
Nonchalant Lupin
Note: Only appears in Collected Short Stories of Gosho Aoyama 3rd Base Fourth.
Nonchalant Lupin (さりげなくルパン Sarigenaku Rupan) is a one-shot manga about a mischievous high school boy named Kaito Lupin (流犯 快斗 Rupan Kaito) and his best friend Aoko Holmes (宝陸 葵子 Hoomuzu Aoko). This story was the prototype for Aoyama's Magic Kaito manga series.
Plot
While sneaking around the school late at night searching for the answers to the final exam, Kaito Lupin stumbles across a list for "Illegally Accepted Students" for his school. To prevent a scandal from happening and to put Kaito in his place once and for all, Headmaster Tsubura teams up with the Gurikouji Financial Group's Kenzou Gurikouji. Gurikouji is currently being investigated by Aoko's father, Inspector Holmes, regarding the group's drug trafficking and gun smuggling. Tsubura and Gurikouji intend to trick Kaito's friend, Aoko Holmes, into believing Kaito might be expelled from school and blackmail her into marrying Gurikouji's son, Ken. By doing this, Gurikouji would gain control over police investigations and Tsubura would finally remove Lupin from the school. Aoko reluctantly agrees and it's up to Kaito to crash the wedding and steal her away somehow!
Characters
Tell Me A Lie
Note: Only appears in the renewal edition collection of short stories.
Tell Me A Lie (〜私にウソをついて〜 ~Watashi ni Uso wo Tsuite~) is a one-shot manga about a girl named Terumi Arai (新井輝海 Arai Terumi), who can read people's minds when she looks them in the eyes.
