Utsurun Desu.

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伝染るんです。
Utsurun Desu.
Volume 1 of Utsurun Desu.
Genre	Comedy
Manga
Written by
Published by	Shogakukan
Magazine	Big Comic Spirits
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	1989 – 1994
Volumes	5
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Utsurun Desu. (Japanese: 伝染るんです。) is a Japanese manga created by , which ran in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits from 1989 to 1994. This manga is deemed to be one of the works that initiated the "irrational" or "unreasonable" gag comic genre, also known as non sequitur. One of the most popular characters that appeared in Utsurun Desu was "the otter", Kawauso-kun.

Utsurun Desu. roughly means "it infects you" and is a homophone for a disposable camera produced by Fujifilm (where "Utsurun desu" means "it can take photos").

The series won the 1991 Bungeishunjū Manga Award.^[1]

In 1992 a video game was released by Takara about Kawauso-kun journeying to Hawaii, titled Utsurun Desu - Kawauso Hawaii e iku or Utsurun Desu - Kawauso moves to Hawaii.

Manga releases[]

Uturun Desu 1, ISBN 4-09-179041-0
Uturun Desu 2, ISBN 4-09-179042-9
Uturun Desu 3, ISBN 4-09-179043-7
Uturun Desu 4, ISBN 4-09-192344-5
Uturun Desu 5, ISBN 4-09-179045-3

References[]

^ "文藝春秋漫画賞". Comic Lab. Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. Retrieved April 2, 2015.

External links[]

(in Japanese) Uturun Desu and Sensya Yoshida
Utsurun Desu (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

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