The Weekly Yomiuri Special One-shots are a grouping of current affair-related one-shots by Fujio Akatsuka and Fujio Pro, published in the Yomiuri Shimbun's Weekly Yomiuri. While they may often be credited separately in work lists, some collections like the Coredeiinoda set opt to treat them as a loosely-linked series by this title.
There were six one-shots published over the year of 1975.
- Kiza Katsupe (キザかっぺ)- March 1st issue
- My Wife Belongs to the University of Tokyo (うちの女房は東大出)- April 5th issue
- Dictator (独裁者)- May 3rd issue
- Angou (アンゴウ)- June 21st issue
- Detective (探偵)- August 9th issue
- I am a Fool (私バカよネ おバカさんよネ) -September 13th issue
Unlike Gag Guerrilla, these features were ordered by editorial as done-in-one stories and not as part of a regular title. Each work was related to a specific theme in each week's issue, that had been decided by the editorial department beforehand; My Wife Belongs to the University of Tokyo would align with the "University of Tokyo" related features in the April 5th issue, and I am a Fool would be related to the content on the "300 Million Yen Robbery" case.
Reprints[]
Five of the one-shots would see reprint, courtesy of Shogakukan's DVD-ROM set, although Dictator remains the outlier possibly due to its story touching upon an ideologically sensitive subject like Nazi Germany and playing it for laughs; A man takes imported medicine from the age of Nazi Germany, causing him to sneeze with a "Fasci-shon" and devolve into a terrorist who repeatedly orders his family to praise a certain dictator. Otherwise, it would not be peculiar for an Akatsuka story to slip out of being reprinted and to be forgotten.