If you’ve ever worked a thankless customer service job, you’ll appreciate Skull-Face Bookseller Honda-san, a semi-autobiographical look at the ups and downs of retail. The titular character works in the manga section of a large Tokyo bookstore, helping customers find the perfect series, doing inventory, and meeting with representatives from major publishers. Some of these episodes are genuinely funny, as when a handsome male customer requests explicit doujinshi for his daughter, or a Swedish fujoshi explains her penchant for a particular seme-uke dynamic, while other chapters are more matter-of-fact, conveying the difficulties of keeping popular titles in stock, or documenting the social and professional interactions among the staff members. Though none of its is laugh-out-loud funny, the artwork is terrific, capturing Honda-san’s sweaty anxiety every time a customer or colleague...
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