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Titles:
The six stories compiled in Rumic Theater were originally published in adult manga anthologies. Each story revolves around a wife and her family in some strange but inspiring situations that will leave you thinking more about life's lessons once you complete each.
The Tragedy of P is the story of a woman, a penguin, and her apartment. Mrs. Haga is a housewife who lives in the Heisei Apartments with her husband and son. One day her husband comes home with a penguin that one of his client's has asked him to baby sit. BUT the Heisei Tenant's Association has a zero tolerance policy when it comes to pets of any kind, and Mrs. Kakei of the tenants association has no problem enforcing the rules, even if it means having the tenant evicted. So Mrs. Haga has her work cut out for her, especially when her son brings all of his friends from school to see P, and one of them happens to be Mrs. Kakei's son.
So when Mrs. Kakei discovers another tenant with a cat and wants to her to give the cat away or leave Mr. Haga speaks up only to be questioned by Mrs. Kakei, "So a person who likes animals is a saint...And one who dislikes them is a monster?" Further tearing Mrs. Haga between her love for P, her fellow tenants with pets, and her family's home.
This story is heart touching, and if you have a pet you will really appreciate this story. But it will also leave you questioning whether our love for animals leads us sometimes justifying keeping them despite what might be best for them.
The Romance Villa Wedding Chapel is a decrepit wedding chapel that has been in Yukari's family for three generations. Unfortunately she can no longer afford to run the Chapel, due in part to Chapel's less than romantic facilities. Which include an excommunicated priest, with a drinking problem, add to that crumbling walls and no air conditioning in the middle of June.
Yukari hopes her ex-husband can help out with his back alimony payments, but that will not be enough. Then one day a man who had worked for Romance Villa some years ago returned with his wife to renew their wedding vows. It turns out Yukari's father had given him the money to move to America after he had been burglarized. The man became very wealthy and had just moved back to Japan to start over and thought Romance Villa would be the perfect place.
In the end though the couple's wedding proved much more than a financial wish as the couple gave Yukari and her staff more than cash to keep the dream of the Romance Villa alive.
Ritsuro Hirooka is very upset. People keep thinking the sidewalk in front of her corner house is where the neighborhood's garbage should be dropped off. And the garbage gets stranger and stranger, as weird mask and artifacts from all over the world, seem to be appearing daily with the regular rubble. Much to Ritsuro's dismay the artifact bandit is actually her husband's bosses' wife.
When Ritsuro's husband's boss gets drunk his wife throws out some of his children, which he has collected on his trips around the world. In the morning when he is sober he returns and brings his "children" home. Needless to say that Ritsuro and her husband are now in a bit of a predicament, being that her husband is now up for a raise and they do not want to jeopardize his chances over garbage.