Shima Kousaku is a mid level manager (Kachou | Office Chief) at Hatsushiba Electric, a fictional mega corporation based off Mitsubishi Electric and other huge companies. The first series takes place entirely within Japan's economic boom in the early to mid 80s (the first volume came out in '83).

It's got low level office politics, romance, thrilling corporate drama, and occasional mysteries and crime. Though being printed primarily in morning newspapers, it's pretty light reading most of the time.

Usually the workplace is a boring setting, but I thought that the author did a really good job of making things interesting. There's plenty of cheating and OL office drama, and the occasional ero page, but it never drags on for too long. My personal favorite parts was the inter-factional rivalry in the corporation, cunning executives trying to cut down the MC, hostile takeovers thwarted by last minute thinking... even something you might think would be totally boring, a shareholders meeting, is turned into a very exciting event in this manga.

So, overall, I highly recommend!

Cool manga. Cool review. Thank you !