“Half-youkai pawnshop owner trades human emotions for sweets, aided by grumpy servant Wan Lon.”
Kesshou Monogatari
結晶物語
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Half-youkai pawnshop owner trades human emotions for sweets, aided by grumpy servant Wan Lon.
Touu, a half-human youkai with a fondness for sweets, manages a pawnshop in a secluded part of town. Wan Lon, the bad-tempered young man who has become Touu's manservant for some unknown reason, gets all the troublesome jobs pushed on to him. The shop deals in human emotions. Any forbidden or irrepressible emotion that is tormenting the customer will, with their permission, be turned into crystal and pawned. Of course, it doesn't hurt that these beautiful crystals happen to be the sweet-toothed youkai's favorite food...
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A Manga Publication
- Format 34 × 5 ch × vol
- Total read 4h 32m approx
- Published Mar 2008 – Feb 2013
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M15397 catalog