Under the Bridge

These days, I found an interesting comic book. Its title is “Arakawa Under the Bridge”. The main characters are so characteristic and funny. They live together under the bridge, and they enjoy their free and oscar life.

The beginning of the story is joining one person. His name is Koh Ichinomiya. He is clever, handsome and perfect, and he is a president of many companies at the age of twenty. He has lived his life as he was taught by his father. His father also has many big companies, and always says to him, “Don’t run into debt.” But one day, he was helped by a girl, Nino. She is so beautiful and mysterious girl, and she lives under the bridge. He began to live there to pay a debt to her as her boyfriend.

At first, he despised strange inhabitants living under the bridge. But gradually, while he doesn’t notice, he has smiled more often recently. And he became to not care about a little debt. The best of it is that he made friends. He is a prefect man, so he was always alone. But now, he has changed.

This is a gag comic book. It always makes us laugh. But I think its bottom is serious. The taught of Koh’s father is the problem in common. If we never ran into debt, we wouldn’t touch anyone. So, before living under the bridge, Koh was always alone. Today, someone say that human social ties are very thin in Japan. I think so, too. This comic book gives us laugh, but it also gives us problems we have to improve.



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