Show Ha Shoten 4

Azemichi and Taiyo are One-Way Ticket to the Top, the final performers of the Wara-1 Koshien prelims! Between Azemichi’s carefully scripted comedy and Taiyo’s flawless acting, they’ve got the perfect routine to win over the crowd. But despite having started off with the biggest laughs of the day, Azemichi draws a blank halfway through their routine and forgets his next line! Unless Azemichi and Taiyo can save their performance, they may have just lost their only chance at making their comedy dreams come true... -- VIZ Media

La strategia studiata da Azemichi e Taiyo per far ridere il pubblico del Wara-1 Koshien ha successo. Ma proprio sul più bello, quando il loro sketch comico è sul punto di concludersi... Azemichi non ricorda la sua battuta! Disegni di takeshi Obata, il disegnatore di Death Note, Hikaru no Go e Bakuman. Sceneggiatura di Akinari Asakura, il giovane romanziere giapponese più in voga del momento!

Higashikata ropes Shijima into performing in a comedy duo with him at a school show. Inspired by their guaranteed success, Higashikata asks Shijima to join him in an audacious dream—to rise to the top of Japan’s comedy scene by winning major events in both stand-up and sketch comedy! -- VIZ Media

Higashikata and Shijima vow to abandon their comedy dreams if they fail to win the High School Comedy Battle, but the competition is not what they prepared for. With just 30 minutes to spare, will they be able to write an entirely new sketch worthy of first place? Or is this the end for the talented duo? -- VIZ Media

By winning the preliminary round, Azemichi and Taiyo have officially qualified for the Wara-1 Koshien comedy competition! Rumor has it that everyone who’s ever gotten advice from the eccentric Professor Hiyama has gone on to win Wara-1 Koshien—but the only way to get that advice is to win the Hiyama Cup! Can Azemichi and Taiyo beat both Broken Glass Slipper and Shiba Inu World Tour to win a meeting with the comedy legend? -- VIZ Media

A pair of dreamers strive to rise to the top of the comedy world in this story by Akinari Asakura with art by Takeshi Obata (Death Note)! Shy Azemichi Shijima has secretly been studying the art of comedy. His outgoing classmate Taiyo Higashikata has big dreams of being funny but no follow-through. When the two team up, they just might take the comedy world by storm! For a comedy event, the competition for the Wara-Ko preliminary round is no laughing matter! Higashikata and Shijima will have to beat Sprechchor for a second time, along with former winners Kirameki Confections. With more surprises waiting for them onstage, advancing to the Wara-Ko finals might not be so easy…

The preliminary round of the Wara-1 Koshien has begun! Azemichi and Taiyo have put their hearts and souls into preparing for the competition, but if they’re going to make it to Osaka, that holy land of comedy, first they’re going to have to defeat the skilled comedy duo Sprechchor and a mysterious new opponent called Kirameki Confections, aka “the Stage Crushers.” Will they be able to outdo these competitors and seize their ticket to the finals? -- VIZ Media