Oh! Edo Rocket
Manga
Oh! Edo Rocket is a 2001 stage play written for the Gekidan Shinkansen theater troupe by Kazuki Nakashima and directed by Hidenori Inōe, with a novelization released in August of that same year. The story follows a fireworks maker in medieval Edo as he tries to build a rocket to carry an alien back to her people on the Moon.
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