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Barrel Scraping - Gaikotsu Shotenin Honda-san [message #374393] Sun, 07 October 2018 20:18
Dave Baranyi is currently offline  Dave Baranyi
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This is an incredibly bad anime season. I'm having difficulty finding anything new to watch so I'm doing some real barrel scraping. “Gaikotsu Shotenin Honda-san” is one of the few things that I've been willing to scrape out, and it isn't really worth the effort.

This is another minimally animated series with each episode being around 12 minutes long and consisting of two parts. The premise is simple – a skeleton, Honda-san, works in a bookstore that specializes in manga. One might think that this is a reasonable starting point for some sort of fantasy or horror story, but this is a gag comedy and Honda-san is one of the least unusual members of the sales staff of the store. No one takes any notice of Honda-san nor of any other staff member. The clients don't notice anything strange about the staff members either.

The humour in the story revolves around the customers who come in looking for various manga. The customers are “normal” looking but are all caricatures of various compulsive fan types, mainly foreigners. So there are lots of jokes about foreigners trying to speak Japanese, or Honda-san trying to understand English, and even more jokes about the customers “shamelessly” buying BL manga. Honda-san over-reacts to the BL manga but the customers don't.

I found the first episode to be okay, but not particularly funny. I expect that each episode will be pretty much the same with Honda-san over-reacting to provide the humour. I don't care about fan stereotypes or manga sub-genres so I can't see much of a reason to watch any more episodes. So my final rating is C.

Dave Baranyi
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