[Let's Play Around With Char] Char's Success Story Has Become Even More Interesting (1980) [Incomplete]

[Let's Play Around With Char] Char's Success Story Has Become Even More Interesting (1980) [Incomplete]
[シャアをネタに遊ぼう会] 更にできるようになったなシャア出世物語 (1980) 昭和 55 年 [不完全]

An incomplete (not of my doing) version of Let's Play Around with Char (1979 - 1982)'s Char's Success Story imprint, primarily the title Char's Success Story Has Become Even More Interesting. Featuring works from Shio Sato (Haruka Sato, Simone Yotsuya), Ryutoshi (Ryutei, Ryutei-an, sometimes Tomitoshi, TomeTome, Tome-an) Lcy & Yaroll (Toru Yaroll), most art by Shio is dated at April 14th of 1980.

Char's Success Story first debuted at the Winter Comiket of 1979, of Comiket 13, which was held on the 3rd and 4th floors of the Ota Ward Industrial Hall. The event boasted 290 circles with over 4,000 attendants but specifically had a large "Gundam Corner" that drew a lot of buzz. It would be here that the girls, ages 18 to 19, would first sell their first volume of this work. This particular work did not seem to make it to Comiket.

Char's Success Story follows Char Aznable's rise to fame as he sleeps his way to the top, literally and figuratively, though is important in being one of the more explicit novel cum doujin works made depicting yaoi ships and hetero ones alike (Char x Kycilia, Char x Lalah and Char x Iscelina to name them). The authors would become relatively well known and famous within Monthly OUT magazine as excerpts from the doujins were published alongside "perverted" parody works drawn by Shio Sato with writing by Ryutoshi. Ryutoshi would continue publishing novels with Rio Yagizawa (Mieko Hayashi) into the 1990s while Shio stopped contributing works to OUT by 1982.

This particular work is somewhat widely available and would be the last installment in the series proper for the story's imprint. Several similar works would be published before the circle officially disbanded on October 9th of 1982. Lcy, Yaroll and Ryutoshi would continue writing as novelists (Ryutoshi apparently had some drawing ability and has been documented to have submitted some illustrations in a few texts) while Shio would abandon Gundam totally by 1985 or so, changing her penname to Haruka Sato and then to Simone Yotsuya to publish Saint Seiya works among others. Sato, as Simone Yotsuya, would publish works with Shikiko Yamaai's imprint Walkure (Valykrie) in the 1990s before founding her own circle with her partner Yuko Morioka called Pygmalion. Simone received extreme backlash in the 1990s for creating a yaoi/BL work based on real members of the Aum Shyrikyo cult as well as works based on the Japanese royal family, real Formula 1 racers and other real world figures.

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Source: https://www.kishisdoujinshicorner.com/chars-success-story-temporary/

This is not my scan. The original uploader refuses to archive it elsewhere and has "forbade" others from sharing their scans from their website for no particular reason at all. You can probably guess why. I have no such reservations about art history.

source of the actual front cover:

https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1102120733&ref=list&keyword=%E6%9B%B4%E3%81%AB%E3%81%A7%E3%81%8D%E3%82%8B%E3%82%88%E3%81%86%E3%81%AB%E3%81%AA%E3%81%A3%E3%81%9F%E3%81%AA%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%82%A2%E5%87%BA%E4%B8%96%E7%89%A9%E8%AA%9E&lang=jp