Mochiru Hoshisato

is a Japanese manga artist. His simple drawing style reflects the gentle nature of his often romantic tales of modern young Japanese salary-men. While Living Game has been favorably compared to Rumiko Takahashi's Maison Ikkoku, Hoshisato's Yume-ka mo Shinnai and Honki no Shirushi contain fewer superfluous side-plots than Living Game, but May Be just too depressing for some readers to enjoy.

Works

Listed chronologically, with the oldest at the top.

Manga

:1986-1989, Tokuma Shoten, 4 volumes, originally published in Petit Apple Pie anthology.

AbOUT a girl who "sweats" nitroglycerin, and therefore must constantly be eating and drinking things to cool her down.

:1989, Tokuma Shotem, 1 volume.
:1990, Tokuma Shoten, 1 volume.
:1991, Tokuma Shoten, 1 volume.
:1991, Shogakukan, 2 volumes.

A couple is drawn together despite mutual dislike.

Living Game:1991-1993, Shogakukan, 10 volumes.

A salaryman's apartment is turned into temporary office following a disaster at The New office.

:1994-1995, Shogakukan, 6 volumes.

A marriage agency composed of marryable people.

:1996-1997, Shogakukan, 5 volumes.
:1998-2000, Shogakukan, 5 volumes.
:2000-2003, Shogakukan, 6 volumes.

Need and obligations trump complacency.

:2002, Shogakukan, 2 volumes.
:2003-2004, Shogakukan, 4 volumes.

More salaryman apartment social complications.

:2004-2005, Shogakukan, 2 volumes.

Manga essay

:(2000, Mainichi Communications, 1 volume)

Illustration

:(1987-08-01, JICC Shuppankyoku, 1 volume)

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