Original Author Rohan Kishibe

Collection

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Volume

Rohan Kishibe Does Not Fall

Japanese Title

原作者岸辺露伴

Romanized Title

Gensakusha Kishibe Rohan

Total Chapters

4 (Audiobook: 6)

Total Pages

90

Cover Date

October 19, 2021^[1]

UJ Issue

November 2021

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Original Author Rohan Kishibe (原作者岸辺露伴, Gensakusha Kishibe Rohan) is a short story that is part of an anthology of short stories based on the Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan series. It was written by Ballad Kitaguni and published by Shueisha. "Original Author Rohan Kishibe" was included with the November 2021 issue of Ultra Jump in commemoration of the second season of the TV drama. It was then compiled in a collection named Rohan Kishibe Does Not Fall with two other stories, which released for sale on December 19, 2022.

A Japanese audiobook of the story was released on November 12, 2024 on the audiobook.jp service, and on Amazon Audible, Google Play, and Apple Books the next day.^[2]

While overseeing a live action drama adaptation of one of his works, Rohan bears witness to two terrors: that one of his characters has been cut, and that the character in question harbors a grudge.

Summary

One day in late September, a 27-year-old Rohan Kishibe rejects the proposal of filming a live action movie of his past work The Gentleman of the Foreign Residence (異人館(いじんかん)の紳士(しんし), Ijinkan No Shinshi) which was a short-term serialization in omnibus form, following a protagonist tasked with looking after an old western-style manor encountering various monstrosities settling in or approaching the manor in separate episodes. The head editor of Shueisha's Bessatsu Just Magazine Tango Shirohara (白原端午(しろはらたんご), Shirohara Tango), who was also the assigned editor to Rohan when he was younger, worries if Rohan's refusal stems from a disastrous incident during filming of the abandoned live action miniseries of the same work seven years earlier.

The miniseries was produced and directed by a verbally abusive Sosuke Kitamoto (北本壮介(きたもとそうすけ), Kitamoto Sosuke), starring the talented yet arrogant actor Harato Kunieda (國枝原登(くにえだはらと), Kunieda Harato) in the lead role of the protagonist. Bullied by Kunieda, the third assistant director Yumeo Obara (尾原夢生(おばらゆめお), Obara Yumeo) reaches his breaking point.