Living Game

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Living Game
りびんぐゲーム (Living Game)
Genre	slice of life, romance, comedy
Manga
Authored by	Mochiru Hoshisato
Publisher	Shogakukan
Serialized in	Big Comic Spirits
Original run	October 1990 – April 1993
No. of volumes	10

Living Game (りびんぐゲーム) is a seinen manga by Mochiru Hoshisato, originally published in Big Comic Spirits between October 1990 and April 1993. It is a romantic comedy that also examines some of the absurd effects of the rampant real estate speculation brought about in Japan in the late 1980's and the subsequent recession in the early 90's.

[edit] Story

Raizo Fuwa is a 25-year-old salaryman living in a cramped home and working in a crowded office in Tokyo. His hopes for improved conditions are dashed when the new office building his company is supposed to move into is condemned as unsafe because the construction company has been cutting corners. Since the old building is already being demolished, they have no choice but to "temporarily" move the office into Fuwa's new flat. The final complication arrives in the form of the new employee Izumi Hiyama, a high school dropout the boss has promised to take care of as a favour to her family. No landlords are willing to rent to a 15-year-old girl, so she too has to move into Fuwa's home/office.