Show-Ha Shoten!, Vol. 1 (manga)

A pair of dreamers strive to rise to the top of the comedy world in this story by Akinari Asakura with art by Takeshi Obata (Death Note)!Shy Azemichi Shijima has secretly been studying the art of comedy. His outgoing classmate Taiyo Higashikata has big dreams of being funny but no follow-through. When the two team up, they just might take the comedy world by storm!Higashikata ropes Shijima into performing in a comedy duo with him at a school show.

Inspired by their guaranteed success, Higashikata asks Shijima to join him in an audacious dream-to rise to the top of Japan's comedy scene by winning major events in both stand-up and sketch comedy!