Music - Complete Version

Smash all conventions!!! A hilarious masterpiece of flawed characters.
I thought this batch was pure, but it turned out to be flawed innocence. — Hong Pei-tse, Founder of Du Shu Ji & Xian Liu Ce Dian

Ottawa International Animation Festival Best Feature Film
Original Manga of the Animated Film "On-Gaku: Our Sound"

Hiroyuki Ohashi's earliest self-published selected short stories + fully revised special addition of the prologue to "On-Gaku"
The immortal origin of creation!

　　"On-Gaku"
　　Instruments have no melody. Life has no progress. Emotion is a mystery.
　　
　　"Ramen"
　　One day, a coworker with fierce eyes stared at me and asked me to go for ramen after work.
　　Later, we even went out together on our days off.

　　"Mountain"
　　"You lose once you enter society," Yamaguchi decided to live an isolated life in the mountains.
　　Tetsuro, who wasn't doing well, decided to follow suit, and the result was...

　　"Manga"
　　A cartoonist who traveled from Tokyo to the countryside for hot springs met a girl at a farmers' market and thus became involved with a secret UFO society...

Not only is the animated film "On-Gaku: Our Sound," which took seven years to produce, full of romantic flair,
Hiroyuki Ohashi's twenty-year journey in manga is itself an equally impressive legend.

Having received an honorable mention in a manga award in 1999, Hiroyuki Ohashi began corresponding with manga editors, but due to his style's divergence from mainstream manga, he consistently failed to secure serialization. "Then I'll just draw what I want to draw." He made up his mind and decided to start self-publishing. Thus, 20 years ago in 2005, "Mystery Manga Collection" was born. He consigned the book to TACO ché, an alternative bookstore in Tokyo's Nakano district and spiritual mentor to Mangasick, and it was reprinted several times. The obi of the reprinted edition featured recommendations from manga artists Shuuzou Oshimi and Kiminori Wakasugi. They were already close friends and greatly admired Ohashi's talent.

Encouraged, Hiroyuki Ohashi seized the momentum, drawing the 100-plus-page novella "On-Gaku" in the same year. "I'm going to defeat 'BECK'... Just kidding." He wrote on his blog in 2005. However, he almost defeated himself. "On-Gaku" aimed for "approachability" as its creative goal, but he received harsh criticism from a friend: it was easier to understand than his previous work, but also worse. Depressed by this, he even considered throwing away the printed books, but luckily he ultimately decided against it, which is how we arrived in this parallel universe: the aforementioned two self-published collections, "Music and Manga," became his commercial debut, bringing him more opportunities, and leading to the legendary animated film that took 7 years to produce, and then, the Taiwanese edition of "On-Gaku: Complete Edition" came before your eyes.

A closer look at Hiroyuki Ohashi's drawings will surely reveal that they are not "flaws one tolerates to enjoy a good story." Perhaps a visual representation that aims for realism but falls short could be called crude, but Hiroyuki Ohashi clearly never pursued precision from the beginning. Instead, he dedicated himself to depicting the most comical distortions of characters and scenes, continuing a tradition in manga style: a sense of humor tinged with sarcasm. Coupled with his uncanny ability to capture the essence of human figures and create a high contrast between "the characters' uselessness" and "the tense rhythm of panel divisions," Hiroyuki Ohashi's visual expression transcends the disadvantage of lacking drawing skill, becoming an understated spectacle.

It brings to mind a taxi crammed with plush toys, welcoming you to sing karaoke, so homely it's a bit awkward, and revealing all the strange aspects hidden within the mundane. From the driver's seat, Hiroyuki Ohashi tells a few peculiar stories, so small they couldn't be smaller, and as we listen, we find ourselves deeply moved by it all.