“Elderly nanny regresses to childhood to care for former charge, blurring caregiver roles.”
Hakka Shoujo
薄花少女
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Elderly nanny regresses to childhood to care for former charge, blurring caregiver roles.
Fumi Koito used to be raised by an old housekeeper named Hatoko Natsuyaki. He would call her "Peppermint Nanny" because she would eat all his leftover peppermint candy drops—which he hates to eat—then breathe into his nose because he likes the smell. Now Fumi is in his mid-20's and living on his own as a cram school teacher. One day a little girl no more than nine years old shows up at his house. It turns out she is his old nanny who misses cooking and tending to his every need but because she is pushing past eighty and has grown too frail, she drank a mysterious bottle of medicine to regain her youth and accidentally drank too much. Thus begins their new life together, with the reader frequently left guessing who is taking care of whom.
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A Manga Publication
- Format 29 × 5 ch × vol
- Total read 3h 52m approx
- Published Dec 2012 – Feb 2018
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M38994 catalog