1983 Past Life Manga King

But it’s still dark outside.

I look at the time, it’s a bit early.

Were the commute to work or school time particularly early in the past?

But when we go out, there are many places where the lights are not turned on yet, unlike ours in other rooms. However, an aunt came out of the lit room on the other side and saw her hurried down the stairs. Then he knocks on the bathroom door at the landing.

When I heard a sound from inside, I quickly went down the stairs.

Then he goes to the bathroom downstairs and knocks on the door.

After confirming that one place is vacant, you can see him hurriedly opening the door and entering.

Four households upstairs and six downstairs. It is a house with a total of ten households. Excluding the owner’s house upstairs, there are nine households. In such a place, three toilets are shared.

He seemed to understand roughly why he was in such a hurry from such an early hour.

It is clear that there is a toilet war every morning.

It’s me, I haven’t had any trouble with the bathroom since I was a kid, so this kind of environment is just unfamiliar to me.

Frown your brow for a moment, then immediately go downstairs to wash your face.

The early morning air in October is bittersweet.

Thanks to that, the water is so cold that I feel refreshed.

After I roughly finished washing my face, I went upstairs again and went into the house, and Kyunghee looked at me in surprise.

“Brother, why?”

“···········?”

“If you do something you don’t do suddenly, you will die quickly.”

slap!

“Oh! Why?”

“What do you mean by being frivolous as a younger brother?”

This time I hit my sister.

I think he’s a noisy guy.

Anyway, as soon as breakfast is over, the table is cleared, and everyone hurries out of the house.

The first person to go to work was my sister, then her mother and twins.

Her mother gives me a sheet of 1,000 won.

“···········?”

is it pocket money?

But Kyung-hee, who saw this, reached out to her mother and said,

“Mom, I need to buy a notebook too.”

Seonhee opened her mouth.

“I am a ballpoint pen.”

“Lend your friends. It’s payday in a few days. Just be patient until then.”

“Ah, Mr.”

Kyung Hee is annoyed.

Seonhee turned her body around without any reaction as if she was familiar with it.

I called Kyunghee. Then, she held out the thousand won she had received from her mother.

“Take this. Because I don’t need money.”

“Really?”

“Boy!”

Her mother stopped her, but Kyung-hee snatched the money I had given her and quickly disappeared out of the door saying “Thank you, brother!”

The whole family leaves the house, and after a while, it starts to get brighter outside.

I woke up early because of my family, but I don’t really have much to do.

I didn’t see much on TV, and the only books I could read were Treasure Castle.

By the way, I’ve seen this three times already, and I’m getting tired of it.

If I had a smartphone, I would have been less bored.

However, there was no way such an over-tech thing existed in these days.

He lays down for a while and then leaves the house.

It’s still morning, and the neighbors’ families seem to be busy going to school or going to work.

Uncle in work clothes, children leaving the house with bags.

You can see people coming out at the same time in other rooms as well.

Seeing them like that, I wander and go up to the roof.

The sky at dawn has not changed much from when I lived. The morning scenery of busy people is similar.

However, there are hardly any apartments that are commonly seen around.

Looking down from the roof, many people are pouring out of the road.

It’s a neighborhood with a lot of empty spaces between buildings, like missing teeth. It is unfamiliar and fun to see children rushing to school.

Since everything is new now, I don’t know how time flies just looking down on it.

Oh, come to think of it, I was not an elementary school student back then, but a national student.

After spending some time on the roof like that, when the street became quiet, I wandered back downstairs.

Right now, there is no way to know how to get back to the original time zone, so the first thing to do is to just adjust to this place. However, I have no idea what to do right now.

I walked through a quiet neighborhood with a gait like a white man.

The only money in the pocket is two hundred won.

This is what I found after digging through all of my belongings.

Did you give me a thousand won for nothing?

Anyway, I’m glad I’m eating rice so I don’t have to worry about starvation.

In the shops you see occasionally, you can see them spraying water outside after morning cleaning. You can also see them throwing their food into the sewer, and even in broad daylight, you can see quite a few kids urinating in the ditch.

The appearance of briquettes piled up in front of the house or next to the electric pole.

Even though it was only 35 years ago, there are more unfamiliar faces than I thought.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

Still, to me, everything is a miracle.

As I wander around the neighborhood, I am mesmerized by everything I see, and suddenly I see something pleasant.

A bunch of cartoon drawings on the old door.

If you look at the sign, it’s a cartoon room

Still, what I am most familiar with at this time is probably cartoons.

As a maniac fanatic of comics, he has read not only comic books but also comic books.

He knows quite a bit about the history of comics from the 70’s to the time I was in, as well as the story of the Japanese comics world since the 60’s.

For me, the manga room of 1983 is enough to inspire curiosity.

Come to think of it, it’s 1983.

Let’s see, what happened at this time?

I slowly trace my memory.

Popular Japanese animations aired in Korea at this time included ‘Magical Princess Minky’, ‘Frog King’, ‘Future Boy Conan’, and ‘Queen of Millennium’.

It was also the year in which ‘Baby Dinosaur Doori’ by cartoonist Kim Seo-jung, the most popular character in Korean comics, was born, and it was also the year in which ‘The Foreigners of Hell’ by cartoonist Lee Yeon-se, who caused a comic craze nationwide, was published at the main office (comicbang).

In the Japanese comics world, it was also the year when serials such as ‘Kun of the North’, ‘Bebop High School’, ‘Master of Taste’, and ‘Kung Fu Boy Chinmi’ started serialization.

Come to think of it, 1983 was a year when a lot of great works were released in the manga and anime fields. Of course, I only know with knowledge.

I fiddle with my pockets again.

two hundred won.

If that’s the case, you can watch cartoons.

I was ignorant of the prices of these days, but I knew from books that the rental fee for comic books was about 50 won.

I went straight to the door of the comic book room. But then I hear someone calling me.

“uh? It’s Yunhwan!”

When I turn my head, I see a young, skinny man with a dark face approaching me with a bright expression.

Who is it? Are you friends?

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At first glance, he looks like he’s in his mid-20s or late 20s, but his face is so thin that it’s hard to tell his age.

I shut his mouth once and stared at him blankly to explore. Then he opened his mouth with an awkward smile as if my gaze was burdensome.

“Oh, did I interrupt this? sorry.”

“·················ogue.”

“The whole family seems to have gone. Do you want to watch cartoons?”

“·················ogue.”

As I continued to stare without saying a word, he rolled his eyes for a moment, then asked with a bit of anticipation.

“I borrowed a comic book in my room, would you like to see it?”

comic book?

It’s still only 200 won, so it’s a bit disappointing, but it’s an opportunity to watch it for free.

By the way, can I follow that man?

Well, it must be a big deal.

I don’t know who this person is, but in terms of behavior, they seem pretty friendly.

He immediately nodded with his mouth shut.

It’s because I’m debating whether to use a polite language or to use a polite language.

“Okay, let’s go. There is also ramen, so if you are hungry, I will cook it for you.”

Saying so and dragging me away

Well, it’s a pretty happy look.

I hope you don’t know what to do with me.

Thinking like that, I looked around at the figure of the man who took the lead.

Attire is sportswear with pants and a comfortable jumper on top.

If you see this man hanging out outside at this hour, is he a white-haired man like me?

By the way.

“······uh?”

Following this man, he enters a familiar gate.

This is the multi-family house I live in.

Perhaps they live in the same building.

As soon as you enter, go to the door near the entrance on the first floor and take out the key. Then he unlocks the key on the door and opens it.

After all, you live on the first floor.

As soon as you open the door, you are greeted with a shabby interior.

The basic house structure is no different from our house upstairs. However, if it is not cleaned properly, the kitchen looks messy and full of dishes.

When you open the door again, the inside looks the same.

At that moment, I immediately realized that this man was living alone in his own room.

He rolled his eyes and entered the room.

On the floor of the room, as he said, there are several comic books for the script.

Oh, I guess I can get some free books today.

However, there is something that catches my attention more than the comic books on the floor.

On a small bookshelf on one wall of the room, there were a lot of paperback comics of Clover, which can be said to be the best comic books from the 70s and 80s.

At the time, paperback comic books were quite popular as high-end comics, unlike comic books for script use. It is said that the children of the little-living house were proud to have such a thing in their house.

Anyway, I was lucky to be able to see so many of these precious things.

Of course, among these clover libraries, you can often see Japanese pirated cartoons such as ‘Babel II’ and ‘Iron Man Daimos’.

At that time, the concept of copyright was at the bottom to such an extent that the name was proudly published in a juvenile magazine, and even a book was published.

People who don’t know may wonder why they would want to copy Japanese works instead of just printing them, but in those days, in order to publish manga, they had to be censored. As a result, I was unconditionally inspected in the form of a manuscript, and what became a problem there was a measure for deletion.

As a result, they deliberately go through a copying process like this.

It is an open secret that many cartoonists who passed through this period were not free from such piracy. Many cartoonists who said they were successful in the 80s also said that they had something to do with this.

Anyway, what I couldn’t understand at first glance with my common sense was the prevailing time at this time.

Well, considering that the concept of copyright has been well established since 2000, it is difficult to expect such a thing in this era.

Anyway, to be able to see these books vividly in real time, I feel a rush of emotion.

By the way, not only the Clover Library, but also some older comic books on the other side of the bookshelf. In general, the works of cartoonists who excelled in the 1960s can be seen quite a bit.

Park Gi-dang, Park Ki-jung, San San, Kim Yong-hwan, and even the godmother of the pure comics world, Um Hee-ja.

The works of people who would have known if they had delved into the manga quite a bit were preserved better than expected.

It’s the first time I’ve ever seen a cartoon from the 60’s so well kept.

Oh, it’s 1983, so it’s been a long time than I thought, isn’t it?

In any case, if you store these books well, you could sell them quite expensively in 2018.

I know that comic books in the 1960s were in good condition and were traded among fans for up to 2 million won per book. Then, if you keep the comic books here right now, even if you only get 1 million won per book…, how much is this?

Shall I collect some precious books right now?

After thinking for a moment, he shook his head.

hey, let’s go.

I saved a lot of money, but if I go back to the era I lived in, it will all be useless.

By the way, it is definitely unusual to see this person, an adult, collect these books like this.

Is this person also a fan of comics?

By the way, I still don’t know what kind of relationship it really has with me.

At first glance, looking at my appearance and actions, it seems like they treat me like a younger brother.

Maybe it’s like a neighborhood hyung.

For now, I’m not sure what kind of relationship it is, but we’ll find out soon.

Was it because he saw me immersed in thought for so long?

The man looks at me and tilts his head slightly.

“What are you thinking so deeply about?”

“No, nothing.”

He doesn’t even respond to my half-talk.

They also seem to be close friends. I think the conversation will become a little easier now.

It’s an exact relationship.

By the way, I was so engrossed in the comic book that I couldn’t read it properly, but there are several large bromide and posters on the wall.

There are several cartoons that were either obtained from the script office or were circulated in the famous manga room at the time. However, there is only one movie bromide in between.

The best sci-fi movie ‘Star Wars Episode 4’ was the first bromide of Star Wars.

I was very happy because it was a movie I liked very much.