Zetsubō ni Kiku Kusuri

Zetsubō ni Kiku Kusuri (絶望に効くクスリ, lit. "Effective Medicine for Despair") is a Japanese non-fiction manga by Reiji Yamada. Each volume is a collection with interviews describing how the subjects overcame hardship, or how they are working to make the world a better place.

Zetsubō ni Kiku Kusuri
絶望に効くクスリ
Manga
Written byReiji Yamada
Published byShogakukan
MagazineWeekly Young Sunday
DemographicSeinen
Original run20032008
Volumes10

Interview Subjects by Volume

Volume One

  • Reiji Yamada (manga artist)
  • Jun Miura (manga artist)
  • Ryuji Akiyama and Mihoko Abukawa (Haneru no Tobira members)
  • Sumiko Kurihata (fortune teller)
  • Takehiko Inoue (manga artist)
  • Shiraishi Kojiro (ocean adventurer)
  • Ryuichi Nanami (host)
  • Kazuyoshi Nagashima (politician, mayor of Zushi, Kanagawa)
  • Ikuo Nakamura (photographer)
  • David Kinoshita (surfer)
  • Yoshiharu Sekino (anthropologist)

Volume Two

  • Kiyoshirō Imawano (band man)
  • Kankurō Kudō (screenwriter, actor)
  • Yōko Sakamoto (foster parent)
  • Masashi Kimura (former head of Greenpeace Japan)
  • Akiko Tanabe (accessory designer)
  • Toshihiko Hanawa (doctor)
  • Kō Machida (writer)
  • Takumi Hayashi (writer)
  • Hiroshi Aramata (writer, translator, researcher)

Volume Three

  • Shoji Jo (former player for the Japan soccer team)
  • Mio Sato (doctor)
  • Taro Gomi (picturebook writer/illustrator)
  • Sakana-kun (fish expert)
  • Tokiko Kato (singer)
  • Yoshiaki Ito (former head of Coca-Cola Japan's environmental group)
  • Sokyu Genyu (Buddhist priest, writer)
  • Yotaro Hatamura (failure expert)
  • Masahiro Hidaka (smash)

Volume Four

  • Shigesato Itoi (copy writer)
  • Kimikazu Iwase and Koichi Okita (Japanese space program)
  • Jun Imamiya (motor sports journalist)
  • Kazumi Oguro (editor, Sotokoto)
  • Takumi Terakado (chiropractor)
  • Kensuke Onishi (founder, Peace Winds Japan)
  • Show Aikawa (actor)
  • Yuji Kishi (community leader)
  • Shigeru Mizuki (manga artist)

Volume Five

Volume Six

  • Hayao Kawai (psychologist)
  • Banana Yoshimoto (writer)
  • Minoru Shimomura (aquarium director)
  • Kazuhiko Tei (nutritionist)
  • K Dub Shine (rap artist)
  • Tentsuku Man (movie director/roadside poet)
  • Takashi Tsujii/Seiji Tsutsumi (poet/author)
  • Tomoka Mita (cheerleader - Dallas Cowboys)
  • Terukichi Nagata (agriculture)

Volume Seven

  • Bobby Valentine (baseball manager)
  • C. W. Nicol (writer, adventure)
  • Reshad Khaled (doctor)
  • Mieko Osanai (TV writer)
  • Kenji Ōtsuki (rock star)
  • Yasuyuki Fujimura (inventor)
  • Hiroshi Iijima (environmentalist)
  • Ken Terawaki (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan)|MEXT)
  • Bau Yamada (Open Japan)

Volume Eight

Volume Nine

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