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The Boy and The Beast

バケモノの子

“A lonely boy crosses into the bakemono realm, becoming disciple Kumatetsu's Kyuuta in Shibutenmachi.”

Light novel12 chapters1 volume

Anthropomorphic, Isekai, Fantasy2015

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A lonely boy crosses into the bakemono realm, becoming disciple Kumatetsu's Kyuuta in Shibutenmachi.

The story is set in the human realm (Tokyo's Shibuya ward) and the bakemono realm (Shibutenmachi). In these two worlds which must not intersect, there lives a lonely boy and a lonely bakemono. One day, the boy gets lost in the bakemono world, becomes the disciple of the bakemono Kumatetsu, and is renamed Kyuuta. (Source: ANN)

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Reel · 01 Cat. №BS-M34603

A Light novel Publication

Format: 12 × 1; ch × vol
Total read: 1h 36m; approx
Published: Jul 2015 – Jul 2015
Source: Light novel; media type
Ref.: BS-M34603; catalog

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