Hotomoto Ken x Fukuoka Taro's "Super Intellectual! Dirty Jokes Club" Gets Quick Reprint & Gains Attention from "Sekidoku Channel" Feature

"Super Intellectual! Dirty Jokes Club," a slice-of-life school comedy that makes you smarter as you read, supervised by Hotomoto Ken of "Yuru Gengo Gaku Radio" and drawn by Fukuoka Taro of "Onnanoko no Ken o Te ni Ireta," is a huge hit! Released on April 22, 2026, "Super Intellectual! Dirty Jokes Club" has sold so well that a reprint was decided less than a month after its release. The work, which depicts the daily lives of high school girls stepping into the world of "intellectual dirty jokes," is gaining buzz alongside its source material, Hotomoto Ken's "Yomu dake de gungun atama ga yoku naru shimoneta taizen" (A Compendium of Dirty Jokes That Will Rapidly Make You Smarter Just by Reading), which is currently in its 11th printing. The manga was featured on the "Sekidoku Channel" on May 8, where Mr. Hotomoto talked about behind-the-scenes stories of his first involvement in manga production. Additionally, the following six bookstores are offering original purchase bonuses (some are limited quantity, available while supplies last). ■Purchase Bonuses: Melonbooks: 4-page leaflet; Shosen/Horindo Shoten: monochrome paper; Toranoana: illustration card; COMIC ZIN: illustration card; Sanyodo Shoten: illustration card; Value Books: booklet. When purchased at Value Books, you will receive a booklet with a special chapter for which Mr. Hotomoto Ken wrote the name (storyboard), and you can also watch a bonus video "Saving the Forest with Dirty Jokes." Also, the Melonbooks bonus leaflet contains a special chapter where Fukuoka Taro actually drew the "manga drawn by Shizuka Arai in the main story." Melonbooks is also running a "'Super Intellectual! Dirty Jokes Club' & 'Yomu dake de gungun atama ga yoku naru shimoneta taizen' linked purchase fair." Those who purchase both the comic and the sourcebook will receive an "even more intellectual leaflet that will make you smarter," containing behind-the-scenes stories from the dirty joke compendium written by Mr. Hotomoto Ken. Melonbooks linked purchase fair bonus leaflet for "Yomu dake de gungun atama ga yoku naru shimoneta taizen" ■Book Introduction: Club x Youth x Intellectual Dirty Jokes! The birth of a slice-of-life manga that makes you smarter as you read. Based on the hit work "Yomu dake de gungun atama ga yoku naru shimoneta taizen" by Hotomoto Ken of "Yuru Gengo Gaku Radio," popular manga artist Fukuoka Taro adds his own original twist to create this manga. Hiyori Kobayashi, a high school girl who loves to read, meets her admired classmate Iroha Inoue in the library and, by a strange turn of events, they decide to start a club. Hiyori has lived an ordinary high school life, but under the influence of Iroha, who has a peculiar hobby...? ■Author Introduction: Manga: Fukuoka Taro. Born in 1986. From Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture. Made his commercial debut with "Chou Isekai Tenseitan Deus Ex Machina" on Jump+. He then serialized "Junjo Sentai Virginias." Other works include "Hatsukoi Tensei Near-Death Goddess" (COMIC FUZ), and "Onnanoko no Ken o Te ni Ireta" (Dengeki G's Comic), among others. He once drew a lovey-dovey diary on Twitter with a non-existent wife and was slightly hurt after receiving a DM saying, "If you keep drawing this, you will suffer a mental breakdown." His favorite final boss is Neo Exdeath. Supervisor: Hotomoto Ken (Author of the source material "Yomu dake de gungun atama ga yoku naru shimoneta taizen"). Born in 1992. From Hokkaido. Graduated from Keio University's Faculty of Science and Technology, majoring in information engineering. A hybrid of author and YouTuber, he creates and scatters intellectual joke content. He serves as the listener on the YouTube channel "Yuru Gengo Gaku Radio." His books include "Kyoyo Waruguchi Hon" (Kobunsha) and "Gengo Otaku ga Tomodachi ni 700-nichikan Kataritsuzukete Hikizurikonda Gengo Numa" (Value Books). ■Book Data: 【Title】Super Intellectual! Dirty Jokes Club 【Author】Manga: Fukuoka Taro, Supervisor: Hotomoto Ken 【Release Date】April 22, 2026 【Format】B6 size 【Price】935 yen (tax included) 【ISBN】978-4-10-356831-5 【URL】https://www.shinchosha.co.jp/book/356831