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After finishing BUKKAKE BRAWL last year, I pondered for a few weeks what exactly I wanted to do next. I had a ton of projects I could have started - in fact, I had a project very close to completion (THE BUTT PIRATES OF SKIPSPACE), but for some reason, I went with a new idea that had hit me just a few weeks before the completion of BRAWL.
KAROUSHI.
Karōshi (過労死) is the sudden death of a company employee due to stress-related heart attack or stroke. The original Japanese translates as "death from overwork" or "working one's self to death".-- edited entry from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoushi)
Hell of an idea, I thought. And without much prodding, the idea took off. I'm around 17,000 words of a rough draft (with another 7000 or so in notes and half-written scenes that need fleshing out).
KAROUSHI is the story of a man who has given absolutely everything to the company he chose to work for as a young university graduate. In essence, he is the Everyman of the Japanese corporate world.
Twenty-odd years on and he is pushing fifty. Unfortunately, he has started experiencing life-threatening attacks that are not only painful, but physically impair him. To make matters worse, his boss, who started out with the protagonist at the company but used his considerable talent for ruthlessness to get to where he is, takes the opportunities the protagonist's attacks to kick the shit out of him (literally).
And if that wasn't all, his family - for whom he has sacrificed everything - suddenly turns against him with a hatred born of cultural apathy.
So when the office slut, who houses company secrets in her womb vaults, offers him a way to fight back against the overwhelming tides of death and despair, he decides to help her steal the company's most valuable project. That is until she decides to shoot it up her cunt...
A farce to be sure.
KAROUSHI.
Karōshi (過労死) is the sudden death of a company employee due to stress-related heart attack or stroke. The original Japanese translates as "death from overwork" or "working one's self to death".-- edited entry from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoushi)
Hell of an idea, I thought. And without much prodding, the idea took off. I'm around 17,000 words of a rough draft (with another 7000 or so in notes and half-written scenes that need fleshing out).
KAROUSHI is the story of a man who has given absolutely everything to the company he chose to work for as a young university graduate. In essence, he is the Everyman of the Japanese corporate world.
Twenty-odd years on and he is pushing fifty. Unfortunately, he has started experiencing life-threatening attacks that are not only painful, but physically impair him. To make matters worse, his boss, who started out with the protagonist at the company but used his considerable talent for ruthlessness to get to where he is, takes the opportunities the protagonist's attacks to kick the shit out of him (literally).
And if that wasn't all, his family - for whom he has sacrificed everything - suddenly turns against him with a hatred born of cultural apathy.
So when the office slut, who houses company secrets in her womb vaults, offers him a way to fight back against the overwhelming tides of death and despair, he decides to help her steal the company's most valuable project. That is until she decides to shoot it up her cunt...
A farce to be sure.
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Matthew
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Apr 27, 2011 08:28AM
Not sure you would want to refer the "office slut" in those terms I have always worked from the stand point on loving your characters, even the villains.
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Oh I love all my characters, but that's what she is. =)
