Kowashiya Gen

解体屋ゲン Manga

Informações adicionais

Format MANGA
Status Releasing
Start date Jan 10, 2003
Popularity 54
Genres Drama

Tags

Work 79%
Centers around the activities of a certain occupation.
Artificial Intelligence 79%
Intelligent non-organic machines that work and react similarly to humans.
Augmented Reality 79%
Prominently features events with augmented reality as the main setting.
Philosophy 79%
Relating or devoted to the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.
Politics 79%
Centers around politics, politicians, or government activities.
Seinen 60%
Target demographic is adult males.
Primarily Adult Cast 60%
Main cast is mostly composed of characters above a high school age.
Crime 40%
Centers around unlawful activities punishable by the state or other authority.
Agriculture 40%
Prominently features agriculture practices.
Male Protagonist 20%
Main character is male.
Love Triangle 20%
Centered around romantic feelings between more than two people. Includes all love polygons.

Sinopse

Iwao Asakura, a.k.a. Gen, president of Asakura Corporation, a subcontractor demolition company, regains his passion as a world-class demolition engineer when Keiko Otsuki, an employee of major general contractor Sanyu Heavy Machinery Lease, brings him a demolition job. He accepted her invitation to join the "Sanyu Group" and established the company "Sanyu Blasting Co. Later, he added an old acquaintance, Roku Iwashita a.k.a. "Roku the Tugger", a wooden construction specialist, Hideo Tokita a.k.a. Hide, a crane engineer who was about to commit suicide due to debt, and Hikaru Nakahara, a truck driver and former TV personality, to his team. However, in order to become "Japan's No. 1 demolition company" that is not bound by the traditions of bid-rigging that persist in the construction industry, he leaves the Sanyu Group and reestablishes himself as Itsumo Blowup Co.

This is one of the longest manga of all time, with 100 volumes as of May 2023.