HAPPY MAN: Bakuretsu Dotou no Katsura Kogoro, Complete Set of Volumes 1-9 Label: Action Comics Publisher: Futabasha Original Work/Planning: Nozomi Makino (Original Plan) Art: Osamu Ishiwatari The time is the end of the Edo period. The times were changing. Katsura Kogoro, the explosive and tumultuous, was born at the same time as Ryoma Sakamoto. A hilarious Bakumatsu story of Kogoro, who is foolish, straightforward, and pure! The leading radical of the Bakumatsu era, the Choshu clan's Katsura Kogoro, has no enemies where he goes!? The main focus is Kogoro's youthful days spent practicing swordsmanship in Edo and Kyoto in the first year of Genji (1864), with a rapid development afterward. There are strong fictional elements, such as incorporating bubble culture into the Edo period at the end of the shogunate and the heroine, Sanae Chiba, turning into a femme fatale in the latter half.