The Intermediate Manga Club (IMC) // Reading Now: Dr.STONE

ガイコツ書店員 本田さん

Natively: Level 33

Summary

Ever wonder what it’s like to sell comics at a Japanese bookstore? Honda provides a hilarious firsthand account from the front lines! Whether it’s handling the store, out-of-print books, or enthusiastic manga fans, Honda takes on every challenge!

Availability

Physical:
CD Japan
Kinokuniya JP
Amazon JP
Amazon US

Ebook:
BookWalker
Honto
eBook Japan
Amazon Kindle JP

Personal Opinion

I think this manga would be really fun to read as a group partly because they refer to a lot of popular books and disguise the titles. It would be fun to see how many we can guess!

Pros and Cons

Pros

  • Learn useful bookstore vocabulary for your next book-buying spree in Japan!
  • There is an anime
  • Comedy

Cons

  • Slice of life
  • Level 33 (hard!)

Pictures

First Three Pages of Chapter One

Additional Pages