TSKR Episode 1 (TV Drama)
Millionaire Village (富豪村, Fugōmura) is the first episode of the TV Drama series Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan. It adapts the one-shot Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan - Episode 5: Millionaire Village.
In this episode, Rohan Kishibe is invited by his editor Kyoka Izumi to assist in the peculiar sale of a mansion in a remote village whose inhabitants have all become rich.
Summary
One night, two burglars sneak in a luxurious house. One of the burglar then discovers drafts for the manga Pink Dark Boy, and understands whose house it is. The eccentric mangaka, Rohan Kishibe, enters the scene and uses his special ability Heaven's Door. By showing his art to the burglars, he turns them into books and proceeds to read the youngest one's bio.
The next day, a young girl named Kyoka Izumi knocks at Rohan's door. She is Rohan's new editor and tries to get along with her but Rohan quickly throws her out of the house. Kyoka has a rendez-vous with her boyfriend, Taro Hirai.
Kyoka returns to Rohan and tells him about a secluded mountain village where all of the residents are millionaires and all became millionaires shortly after moving there in their twenties. Ms. Izumi wishes to fill a recent vacancy and move in, believing it will lead to her becoming a millionaire as well, and she has convinced Rohan to accompany her for research into a new manga story. After being taken to their interview with the landlords by the childlike Ikkyu, the two soon discover that they are being tested on their etiquette by unseen forces, and for each infraction, the test taker loses something dear and important to them...
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