The Complete Boy Champion guide
The Boy Champion guide mainly refers to the out of story mythos surrounding the postwar version. Created by the man behind both Kenya Boy and Tiger Boy, the story focused on a foundling raised by Grauer’s gorillas in the central eastern Congo Kinshasa. The original Boy Champion was made as Sōji Yamakawa’s first ever major work in 1931. It was the Kamishibai prototype for the wackier and better known postwar (picture story and Kamishibai) version which came fifteen years later, 2 subsequent versions from 1963-64 and 1974, and a short faux finale/sequel analysis in 1980. I think it’s due to the fact that it should’ve been made in 24 volumes during its creator’s lifetime. While the stories from the 1946-52 sludge period are largely not available for reprinting due to containing controversial contents, the 1961-62+1965-66 Sanpei Shirato and Jirō Tsunoda manga does contain most of them. The Omoshiro Book+Yonen Book period has more interesting stories than the previous sludge period, not o