Synopsis
Seizo Watase, creator of Chalk-Colored People, produced a series of short manga in Comic Morning starting in 1983. That series has been adapted into a number of romantic vignettes, each meant to convey a straightforward love story in "no more time than it would take to smoke a cigarette"—which often means there is scarcely time to learn the characters' names; many entries simply star "Me" and "Her." Among the tales are Emblem of My Father, Two in the Beer Garden, Old Hawaii Corner, My Brother's Zippo, and Takeru's Love of Two and a Half Millennia. The cigarette comparison may seem odd in today's politically correct climate, but it is preferable to the alternative: bearing in mind that these brief manga stories are actually intended to require no longer to read than the average dump.
Background
Heart Cocktail was promoted by Japan Tobacco Inc.
