Nelke Planning announced on Friday that it is producing the first stage play of Fujiko Fujio A’s (Motoo Abiko) Warau Salesman (The Laughing Salesman) manga for a spring debut.
When the duo split up, Abiko took the pseudonym Fujiko Fujio A, and Fujimoto took the pseudonym Fujiko Fujio (F), later renamed to Fujiko F. Fujio.
Fujiko Fujio A debuted the manga in Shogakukan’s Big Comic magazine in 1968 with the title Kuroi Salesman (The Black Salesman), and it ran until 1971.
Abiko, whose author pseudonym is Fujiko Fujio A, is perhaps best known as one half of the duo that created the iconic Doraemon manga.