Underplayed Gems

The Burning Wild Man

The Burning Wild Man poster
Country
Japan
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A teenage boy raised in the wild by a foster father returns to human society. He navigates daily life and modern civilization with unusual habits and a straightforward attitude.

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What happens

The Burning Wild Man (Japanese: 燃える! お兄さん, Hepburn: Moeru! Onii-san; lit. 'Burning Older Brother') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tadashi Satō. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1987 to 1991, with its chapters collected in 19 tankōbon volumes. It was later adapted into an anime series by Studio Pierrot. The 24-episode series aired on Nippon Television from March 1988 to September 1988. Kenichi Kokuho (国宝ケンイチ, Kokuhō Ken'ichi) became lost in the mountains as a small child. A foster father raised Kenichi; when Kenichi was 15 the foster father told Kenichi about his background and the teenager returned to the civilized world at age 15. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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