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Salary Man Kintaro
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Wikipedia article
is a Japanese manga series by Hiroshi Motomiya. It was serialized in 'Weekly Young Jump' from 1994 to 2002, with many periods of inactivity during its run. Salary Man Kintaro had sold over 30 million copies in print.
The manga follows Kintaro Yajima, a former bszoku leader who, as a promise to his late wife, has become a salaryman. In 2005, Kintaro went from working as a salaryman to working for a foreign bank.
In 2005, 'Salary Man Kintaro' began appearing as an online comic and eventually returned to 'Young Jump'.
While the manga is not available in print in English, all 30 volumes and part of the sequel had been translated into English and were available through the Comic Friends Facebook app. However, in December 2018 Comic Friends announced that it would no longer be doing business in America. In July 2020, manga subscription service Manga Planet had announced that they had licensed the manga.
Characters
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: The protagonist of the series, a high school dropout and former bszoku who retired to become a fisherman, but after he saved Morinosuke Yamato he was offered a job at Yamato Construction in the sales department.
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: Ne '. A high class woman who once had an affair with the late politician '. She still has strong political and financial connections and later becomes Kintaro's wife.
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: The son of Kintaro and his late wife Akemi.
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: The daughter of Misuzu from her affair with Kuroda.
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: Kintaro's first wife, a kind blind woman who dies giving birth to Ryuta.
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: One of the many men that Kintaro saves. Chairman of Yamato Construction. He believes in Kintaro all the way.
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Media
Live-action film
Live-action TV series
; Seasons* January 10 March 21, 1999: 'Salary Man Kintaro' (11 episodes, average rating: 19.0%)
* October 3, 1999: 'Salary Man Kintaro Special'
* April 9 July 2, 2000: 'Salary Man Kintaro 2' (12 episodes, average rating: 16.3%)
* January 6 March 17, 2002: 'Salary Man Kintaro 3' (11 episodes, average rating: 15.5%)
* January 15 March 18, 2004: 'Salary Man Kintaro 4' (10 episodes, average rating: 11.2%)
; Cast
The main cast from the film version returned for the television series.
; Theme songs
* Season 1: ' (The Alfee)
* Season 2: ' (Tetsur Oda)
* Season 3: ' (Katsunori Takahashi)
* Season 4: ' (The Alfee)
Anime television series
; Cast* Kintaro Yajima: Taisei Miyamoto
* Misuzu Suenaga: Atsuko Tanaka
* Mimi Suenaga: Ryka Yuzuki
* Morinosuke Yamato: Kiyoshi Kawakuba
* Genzo Oshima: Takeshi Watabe
* Yusaku Kurokawa: Nachi Nozawa
* Ryuzo Igo: Ksei Tomita
* Kayo Nakamura: Seiko Tomoe
* Ichiro Maeda: Kichi Nagano
* Masakazu Tanaka: Tomoyuki Kno
* Hiroshi Kaminaga: Katsuhisa Hki
* Takashi Shiina: Kunihiko Yasui
* Mamoru Mizuki: Nobuaki Sekine
* Kyoko Sakurai: Masako Katsuki
;Theme songs
* Opening Theme: ' (Yumi Matsuzawa)
* Ending Theme: ' (Norishige Takahashi)
The anime was available subtitled on DVD through Arts Magic.
References
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