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“Siblings adopt winged alien salesman, trade mysterious "hahise" for duplicator tech, leading Reiko's life into darkness.”
Hoshi no Ponko to Toufuya Reiko
星のポン子と豆腐屋れい子
6.54
17,324 rank · 4,822 readers · 24 favorites
Seinen
Drama
Horror
Sci-Fi
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Synopsis
Siblings adopt winged alien salesman, trade mysterious "hahise" for duplicator tech, leading Reiko's life into darkness.
Reiko and her little brother find a weird creature that looks like a cat with wings, and they sneak it home with them. To their surprise, the creature explains that it's an alien salesman, here to trade advanced technology for something called "hahise," which is abundant on Earth. Reiko and her brother are tempted by a device that can duplicate anything, even money. When they make that half-understood deal, the course of Reiko's life is shifted in a much darker direction... (Source: MangaHelpers)
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Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
7.3
/10
What 3 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 8
σ 0.94
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.94 · scores cluster tight
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 0.67
Running avg · Mar 2022 → Sep 2024
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “i started reading this bc i came across a panel on twitter of a girl sitting in a really gross room full of junk, and i really like that kind of aesthetic so i decided to give it a go and was not...”
- 8 “It's a weird short story that probably would have benefited from having a few more chapters. I'd recommend reading it, since it's a short and interesting read in a way that's not what you'd expect....”
- 6 “This is a really short story (about 160 pages) and its both failed and succeeded on that regard. The first chapter was one of the best beginning of any manga I have ever read. The story presented...”
Verbosity
Short · 33%
Medium · 67%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 3 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 0h 24m approx
- Published Aug 2013 – Oct 2013
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M30338 catalog