Genres: Shounen, Comedy, slice of mangaka's life/
Nominated for the 2nd Manga Taisho Award (2009).
In the Manga Kobayashi is approached by editors
of Seishun Shonen magazine to do a manga celebrating
his youth at the magazine. His first work involved
a trio of Martial artists and he won a million yen prize.
He goes on to introduce us to caricatures of his contemporaries
and to their predecessors. He meets 3 of these at his awards
party and the greats of the prior decade and the influential
works. The people who will set the standards of the coming
decades.
So this is the sort of stuff nearly autobiographical story
about creative people that I am happy to find.