Gaikotsu Shotenin Honda-san

Honda, a skeleton-faced employee at a busy bookstore, spends his days managing new releases, crowded shelves, and customers whose requests can be surprisingly hard to decipher. Finding a book from an incomplete description or helping visitors across a language barrier requires far more improvisation than the job might suggest.

His unusually masked coworkers share the pressure of keeping the store running, from stock problems to the enthusiastic demands of readers from around the world. Behind the counter, small encounters reveal both the exhaustion of retail work and the satisfaction of helping someone find the book they want.