is a Japanese

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series by Yūji Aoki which has been serialized in ''

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'' since 1990. The series was awarded the 1992

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for general manga and the 1998

Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Named after Osamu Tezuka, the is a yearly manga prize awarded to manga artists or their works that follow the Osamu Tezuka manga approach founded and sponsored by Asahi Shimbun. The prize has been awarded since 1997, in Tokyo, Japan. Current ...

Award for Excellence.

Plot

The protagonist is Tatsuyuki Haibara, a young

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-born but living in

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. He loses his job at the start of the series and seeks work in the financial sector, but is repeatedly unsuccessful despite his intelligence and aptitude. (Haibara had been pressured into keeping his previous employer afloat with large personal loans, behavior highlighted in his

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and regarded as suspicious even though he repaid them.) Exhausting his options, he applies for a position at a small, shady loans company with links to the

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. Haibara is hired, but soon realises that his colleagues are little better than

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s, quick to intimidate clients who default. The series follows Haibara's dealings with many and varied customers as he strives to avoid his co-workers' more violent methods. Other than Haibara, most of the characters are Osakans who speak in heavy

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Naniwa Kin'yudo 1990 manga 2007 manga Kodansha manga Seinen manga Shueisha franchises Shueisha manga Winner of Kodansha Manga Award (General) Winner of Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (Award for Excellence) Osaka in fiction