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“Skeleton bookseller Honda and her quirky coworkers navigate the daily challenges of running a bookstore with passion and dedication.”
Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san
ガイコツ書店員本田さん
7.02
9,352 rank · 5,472 readers · 41 favorites
Memoir
Otaku Culture
Workplace
Comedy
Slice of Life
Supernatural
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Synopsis
Skeleton bookseller Honda and her quirky coworkers navigate the daily challenges of running a bookstore with passion and dedication.
Honda is a skeleton, but more importantly, she is a bookseller. And she'll tell you from firsthand experience that the job of a bookstore employee is more challenging than it may seem to the average customer. Alongside her equally eccentric coworkers, Honda constantly deals with the stressful requirements of the bookselling industry. From the drama of receiving new titles without their bonus material to the struggle of providing quality service to customers who speak a different language, the work of a skeleton bookseller never ends. Nevertheless, despite the hardships she faces, Honda thoroughly enjoys her job and strives to bring the best book selections and service to her customers.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
5.3
/10
What 3 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 5
mode 4
σ 1.25
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.25 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.67
Running avg · Aug 2020 → Aug 2024
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “"Stories are free as birds until someone picks them up" An educative and somewhat eccentric manga! Very strong first volume: an incredibly funny and honest depiction of life as a bookstore...”
- 5 “I bought two volumes of the manga and had to drop this title. The drawing isnt bad. The main character lacks personality. It is a typical person who would always say "I dont know" or "Ah ok" to...”
- 4 “At first, the setting is really fun, and it's super interesting seeing the ins and outs of a working bookstore, and all the quirks of the business and the customers. The exploration of different...”
Verbosity
Short · 33%
Medium · 67%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 34 × 4 ch × vol
- Total read 4h 32m approx
- Published Aug 2015 – Mar 2019
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M42586 catalog