Iguchi Shingo's most well-known work, a seemingly-nonsensical comedy. The hero of Z-Chan is a little boy of the same name who wears a dunce cap and a black mask. His sidekick is Richard Sex, a blue mouse who lives in another dimension on the other side of a wall but who
appears regularly through a mouse hole. They live in a little house on top of a hill, in
Z-zone and the garden of nothingness, in Lotus Heaven, beyond hope and despair.
They both like to take Z powder, which makes them first forget everything, and then
remember everything. One of the blue mouse’s jobs is to water tulips. Often the two
engage in absurd, riddle-like dialogue.