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This is D.A.M.E. Oyaji drawn with MS Paint.
He is a character of Mr. Mitsutoshi Furuya's cartoon.
...I'm not good at drawing.
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I was born in Oita Prefecture in Kyusyu.
And now, I'm living in Tokyo.
When did I start to hope to live in Tokyo? My father had always said me "My son, I hope you will enter Waseda University". He had said it since I was 3 years old. My father quit Chuoh University after two year. I wonder why he hoped me to enter Waseda University, not Tokyo, Kyoto or his alma mater. I can't understand its reason forever because he's dead. I couldn't have the entrance exam of Waseda because I was not so excellent. I think my father had to make me going to a cram school if he really wanted me to enter Waseda. By the way, Waseda University is in Tokyo. My father also said it to me. So he made me to want to live in Tokyo in a certain sense. Well, when did I start to hope living in Tokyo by myself? It was the time I was 11 years old. There was a magazine on a table in my homeroom. It carried a comic like below; D.A.M.E. Oyaji is a handyman. One day, a middle-aged woman visited him. "My son is a university student and is now living alone. Please make his room clean" "Uh... Why don't you do it yourself?" "I can't do it" "Why?" "I can't stay his room because his room is in a mess!" D.A.M.E. Oyaji went to her son's room. It was really in a mess! "A young man living alone usually makes his room like this" "Mm... I think it may be right" D.A.M.E. Oyaji went to kitchen to wash dishes. He was surprised at a lot of rice clung to a rice bowl. "Oh! what is it?" "I don't want to wash dishes. So I always use dishes without washing" His words were so impressive to me. I thought it really right. Well, D.A.M.E. Oyaji finished cleaning. University student never helped him in the all. He played guitar during cleaning. D.A.M.E. Oyaji got some anger and asked him. "What are you doing?" "I'm composing a song" "Song?" "I'm a singer and songwriter. Do you want to listen to my song?" He made D.A.M.E. Oyaji listening to his song in spite of his refusing. D.A.M.E. Oyaji thought he was not good at songwriting, composition and singing. D.A.M.E. Oyaji went to his home looking up at the stars in the heavens. He thought; "What a day today! But I think I may envy him..." I also envied him. What a free life! I also thought "singer and songwriter" cool. I really wanted to be a man like him. He was a student of Waseda University. Of course he lived in Tokyo. "I want to live in Tokyo" I thought. "I can't be a man like him without living in Tokyo!" This was the first time when I started to want to live in Tokyo. To be continued... |
