Parts of the manga were adapted into a six-episode original video animation (OVA) series produced by Shueisha and KSS in 1995. He constantly observes and studies the people and events around him, recording his findings in a notebook he carries on his belt. During his travels, Kintaro meets several women whose lives he dramatically changes, despite poor first impressions.
Kintaro is living freely, roaming Japan from town to town, job to job. It tells the story of Kintaro Oe, a 25-year-old freeter, pervert 'travelling student', who despite having met the requirements for a law degree, left Tokyo University without graduating. It was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Super Jump from 1992 to 1997, with its chapters collected in ten tankōbon volumes. Golden Boy (stylized as GOLDEN BOY) is a Japanese sex comedy manga series written and illustrated by Tatsuya Egawa.