“Lazy medicine seller Kouen and assistant Tsuruhiko solve mysteries during Japan's Meiji-Shouwa transition.”
Kuroake no Yakushi
黒緋の薬師
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Lazy medicine seller Kouen and assistant Tsuruhiko solve mysteries during Japan's Meiji-Shouwa transition.
During the change from the Meiji Era into the Shouwa Era, there was a strange medicine seller. This man called Kouen, is a lazy and messy person but as a medicine seller, he is of top class. Together with his assistant, Tsuruhiko, they help out the common folk but they somehow got entangled in a mysterious incident. (Source: Kodansha, translated)
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A Manga Publication
- Published Aug 2020 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M57599 catalog