Go Yoshida, talent book collector, sneaks into the “Magic Cave of 10,000 Books”!

 

Yoshida I haven’t counted them, so it’s a bit of a guess, but I think there are about 30,000 books on in the other apartment, and about 10,000 in this one. I’m not sure.

Manita Shobo’s collection is up to 5,000 books, so that’s eight houses of ! This room we’re in right now doesn’t feel like it’s 9 tatami mats, but that’s because there are bookshelves in front of the bookshelves on the wall.

Yoshida There used to be a bookshelf in this room right up to where we are now. But then we decided to broadcast a show called “Gou’s Room” (* , the show that Mr. Yoshida is running) from this room. In order to make space for filming, I had to destroy some bookshelves. Because of this, I can no longer enter the two rows of bookshelves behind this room (on the entrance side).

What kind of reaction do you get from the girls when they see this room?

Yoshida: “The room is full of books” or “It’s like a used bookstore. That’s 90% of the time. Very few of them are even interested in the books on the shelves. Some men get excited and say, “Ooooh! or something like that. When Mr. Kan Takagi came to the store a while ago, he kept looking through the books. Also, people like Oken (Kenji Otsuki) and others. Among the girls, Uesaka Sumire was also very excited, but I think she felt that it was basically just a background or a drawing. Maybe it’s like a bookshelf full of western books in a house studio or something. .

This is what I was expecting. For those who aren’t interested, the amount of information is just scenery, isn’t it?

Yoshida For young girls, most of the authors of the books here are people they don’t know. It’s just a line of unknown books by unknown people. When they look at this area, they don’t feel any interest in the names of Jimpachi Nezu, Yoshio Harada, or Ryotaro Sugi (laughs).

(laughs) Ever since I was a child, I’ve been aiming for things that people don’t collect.

I know it’s a silly question to ask the owner of this room (laughs), but did you have a collector’s tendency from childhood?

Yoshida Yes, completely. I started collecting super car erasers. My family was not very wealthy, so we were not allowed to buy expensive toys such as Chogokin, but only a few Mikuman. Then, from the eraser culture, I suddenly thought, “I can collect these! I thought. I also started collecting stamps in a subtle way.

Stamps are the gateway to collecting. Mr. Yoshida, when you were young, you liked anime, and you used to buy books about it.

Yoshida Before that, I had been collecting since the days of “Korokoro”. When I was in elementary school, I used to collect Fujiko Fujio’s rare manga. Everyone else had “Doraemon”, so there was no point in me buying it. I was the type of person who would go for the rarer manga, like buying magazine supplements that were not included in the book.

I’m the type of person who goes for the rarer manga.

Yoshida At the time, I was living in Ekoda, and at a local fair, there were supplementary comics for 50 yen.

Yes, there were. In the old days, shonen manga magazines would have thin comics in the appendix, and only those would be sold at fairs.

Yoshida I collected those comics, and also rare Fujiko comics like “Masked Taro”. I started out with a collection of the Korotan paperbacks to get a complete picture of Fujiko’s works, and then went on to collect the ones I didn’t have at …….

That’s totally the behavior of a collector! (laughs) I’ve been doing that since then. What’s interesting about Mr. Yoshida is that after that, he easily graduated from anime.