Kushagara (TV Drama)

Kushagara (くしゃがら) is the second episode of the TV Drama series Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan. It adapts the short story Kushagara, which was written by Ballad Kitaguni and not Hirohiko Araki.

In this episode, Rohan Kishibe hears from a fellow mangaka named Jugo Shishi of a mysterious word that mangakas are banned from using: "Kushagara".

Summary
Rohan Kishibe meets with fellow manga artist Jugo Shishi who has come to ask him about a word "kushagara" that his own editor has forbidden him from using unless he can discover its meaning, but he cannot find the word in any dictionary. Rohan can see that Jugo's curiosity about the word is causing him physical and mental anguish, so when he uses Heaven's Door to take a look inside Jugo's mind, he finds something crawling inside the pages of Jugo's "book"...

Trivia

 * Takahiro Sakurai, Rohan's seyuu in Part 4's anime, is credited as a voice on the radio in the episode although only his voice is heard.