A set of two Showa Note ring notebooks featuring the artwork from "Yuyake Bancho," a popular manga by Ikki Kajiwara and Toshio Shoji that was also made into a TV anime. The notebooks are A5 size with 40 blank pages each. They include two types of coloring pages (on the inside of the front cover and the inside of the back cover) and the "Yuyake Bancho Knockout Game." The coloring pages feature illustrations different from the cover art. The "Yuyake Bancho Knockout Game" is included on the first page, made of the same thick paper as the front and back covers, with a blank back. "Yuyake Bancho" was a hugely popular series written by Ikki Kajiwara and illustrated by Toshio Shoji, serialized in Akita Shoten's monthly magazine "Boken-Oh" from 1967 to 1971. While the main story was serialized in "Boken-Oh," side stories were also published in "Weekly Shonen Champion," which Akita Shoten had launched. The story follows the protagonist, Chuji Akagi, who transfers from his hometown to the city and clashes with the Bancho Union, which violently controlled the school. After defeating and reforming them, he and the reformed members establish various sports clubs, such as kickboxing, baseball, soccer, and swimming, sending members as captains and growing the school into a prestigious sports institution. It was quite a grand drama. The TV animation was a joint production of Tokyo TV Doga and Nippon Television, broadcast from September 1968 to March of the following year, every Monday to Saturday from 6:35 PM to 6:45 PM. Each week's six episodes completed one story, with a total of 26 episodes and 156 broadcasts. Ikki Kajiwara, sometimes under the name Asao Takamori, was the author of many popular manga, including "Star of the Giants" (art by Noboru Kawasaki), "Ashita no Joe" (art by Tetsuya Chiba), "Judo Icchokusen" (art by Shinji Nagashima), "Tiger Mask" (art by Naoki Tsuji), "Karate Baka Ichidai" (art by Jiro Tsunoda), and "Ai to Makoto" (art by Takumi Nagayasu). Toshio Shoji, known for "Miracle A" and "Zero Sen Koshinkyoku," continued to submit his work while assisting Hiroshi Kaizuka, a popular manga artist. In addition to this work, "Cycle Yaro," serialized in "Weekly Shonen King," was a big hit, as were "Ore wa Kamikaze" in "Weekly Shonen Jump" and "Niji no Sentotai" in "Weekly Shonen Sunday." These notebooks are new and unused, but there is some age-related yellowing of the paper. Please be aware of this. For those who were thrilled as children, or those who love Showa-era retro stationery, how about it?