Published in Bara-Komi to relative obscurity, Kuso Miso Technique gained notoriety as an Internet meme in the early 2000s after scanned copies of the manga were posted on Japanese imageboards and online forums.

Masaki Michishita, a "typical guy" enrolled in preparatory school, is running to a restroom in a public park when he spots a man wearing a jumpsuit sitting on a nearby bench.

The ending is left ambiguous, with Michishita commenting through narration that the encounter with Abe "turned out to be a shit show" (くそみそな結果に終わってしまった, kuso miso na kekka ni owatte shimatta).

Kuso Miso Technique was originally published in 1987 in Bara-Komi, a manga supplement of the gay men's magazine Barazoku.

[6] Published to relative obscurity in 1987, Kuso Miso Technique gained notoriety as an Internet meme beginning in 2002 after scanned copies of the manga were posted on the imageboards 2channel and Futaba Channel.

[9] A variety of official merchandise related to Kuso Miso Technique has been produced, including t-shirts[10] and body pillow covers.

Yuichiro Nagashima, a kickboxer famous for cosplaying during matches, once entered the ring dressed in Abe's jumpsuit with the parody song as background music.

Itō, a director at Studio Kingyorio, created a live-action fan video adaptation of Kuso Miso Technique while in junior high school, which by 2023 had over 550,000 views on YouTube.