“Skull monk Tokimaru seeks his missing brother Fujinari while guiding lost spirits with his bone-speaking ability.”
Honegoe Monogatari
骨声物語
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Skull monk Tokimaru seeks his missing brother Fujinari while guiding lost spirits with his bone-speaking ability.
Tokimaru is a dokuro-houshi (skull monk), a monk with the special skill to speak with the bones of the deceased. Although he reluctantly helps some lost spirits along the way, Tokimaru is on a mission to find out what happened to his younger brother Fujinari, who has disappeared from his assigned post under a powerful oyakata...
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A Manga Publication
- Format 5 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 0h 40m approx
- Published Aug 2009 – Dec 2009
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M12871 catalog