Only Tezuka…

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Only Tezuka…

Young Okuchin, a good-for-nothing student with no prospects for the future, is visited by a strange young man who tells him he’s a thief that steals the futures of others. The stranger gives Okuchin a set of special glasses that lets him see one of the great secrets of mankind – that we all carry our futures in a sack of flesh coming out of our rear ends. While the size of the sack denotes the amount of future each one has left, no one knows what the future holds… unless you cut open the sack and find out.

So the two head off to steal the best future they can think of for Okuchin – that of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis… no really.

Another interesting tale of the human mind, “The Bag that Holds the Future” (1970), courtesy of The Crater (1969-70).

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