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“Young charcoal maker Toshikatsu shares Wakayama's charcoal craft and regional folktales in first-person daily life narrative.”
Sumiyaki Monogatari
炭焼物語
6.69
14,996 rank · 588 readers · 2 favorites
Seinen
Slice of Life
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Synopsis
Young charcoal maker Toshikatsu shares Wakayama's charcoal craft and regional folktales in first-person daily life narrative.
Narrates the daily life of young Ue Toshikatsu that family tradition, is dedicated to the profession hard coal in the prefecture of Wakayama. The first-person protagonist reveals the painstaking process of making charcoal and strikes up a conversation with the reader through everyday stories and folktales of the region transmitted from antiquity.
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7.0
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What 2 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 5
σ 2.00
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Polarized
σ 2.00 · split reception
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Not enough recommend signal yet
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↑ 2.00
Running avg · Feb 2022 → Apr 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “"Tales of a Charcoal Burner" is a solemn story of a titular charcoal burner in rural japan in the post-war era. It's based on book "Diary of a Charcoal Burner" (Sumiyaki Nikki) which is the...”
- 5 “This is a really strange one because of it's theme, it's about a guy who inherits its family business, making charcoal on the mountains of Japan, it's not a easy task cutting trees, taking them to...”
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Short · 100%
Medium · 0%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 11 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 28m approx
- Published Aug 2005 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M19798 catalog