Ojisan is a Persuman (おじさんはパースーマン) is a gag work by Fujio Akatsuka and Fujio Pro, serialized in Elementary School 5th Grade.
Overview[]
The hero "Persuman" is not an ordinary superhero, in fact, he's just an ordinary man with a "P" on his shirt that'd like to think he's super when he puts on a cape. It would seem as if others are town are much more stranger than this man himself, which he and his son Ryunoshin come to experience in their exploits.
After a year and a half of publication, however, the Persuman series wrapped up and was replaced by that of Waru-chan.
Characters[]
In addition to this cast, The Police Officer with the Connected Eyes shows up as the standard policeman character and Ai-chan from Bukkare*Dan once shows up as a "Hanako" that Ryunoshin has a crush on.
Papa/Persuman[]
A foolish father who runs about in his superhero cape. As with Bakabon's Papa, his ideas can lead to quite the chaos, such as the first chapter showing him dismembering a UFO enthusiast neighbor so an alien can put him back together.
Ryunoshin[]
The young son of Persuman, who is at times left confused and flustered by some of his father's escapades. If Persuman himself is a Papa-like figure, Ryunoshin is his "Bakabon" and will sometimes also go along with his wild ideas.
He is drawn somewhat off model in the first chapter, with differently-shaped eyes than his usual look and a curly ahoge, but his design soon normalizes to the usual Ryunoshin appearance that had already been seen in the rest of Akatsuka's Star System.
Mama[]
Persuman's wife, also left bewildered and at the mercy of the ridiculous events her husband can induce, but if it sounds good enough to her she'll go right along all the same.
Serialization[]
- Elementary School 5th Grade: April 1979-March 1981
Reprints[]
- Futabasha: 2 volumes in the "100 Tenland Comics" imprint. Volume 2 has six chapters of the Dokkan V feature "Chibimama" as extra content.
- Shogakukan: The 100 Tenland Comics volumes were digitized for the Fujio Akatsuka Complete Works DVD-ROM set, along with the print-on-demand versions from ComicPark.
- eBookJapan: 2 volumes