“Quiet bookshop owner Shoutaro secretly collects dangerous old books with young helper Shiro.”
Mononobe Koshoten Kaikitan
もののべ古書店怪奇譚
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Quiet bookshop owner Shoutaro secretly collects dangerous old books with young helper Shiro.
Shoutaro is a man of few words. He manages an old book store called Mononobe Koshoten and has an admirable young boy named Shiro helping out in store as he spends his days reading. But behind this, Shoutaro has another job; the collection of some rather unpleasant old books...
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A Manga Publication
- Format 37 × 7 ch × vol
- Total read 4h 56m approx
- Published Jan 2015 – Nov 2019
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M37550 catalog