Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san, Vol. 1 by Honda

Can I (or we) call this the SOTY (Short of the Year) for 2018? Because this short-form 10 minute series, as simple as its premise goes, drives home perfectly about more than just being a fun and educational series. I'm gonna give this an outstanding score just because. 'No sorry we don't have that it's.uh.SPECIAL YAOI BOOK!' - Honda-san It is fun to watch, accurate, educational and almost made me want to buy some manga, which I guess is one of the reasons why this was made. Sounds-wise, Honda's seiyuu delivers and that's the most important part. The animation is purposely oversimplified for comedic reasons, the character design is also done similarly to create stereotype customers and make the staff in the store seem absurd as possible. In terms of art, this isn't exactly Inferno Cop tier stuff, but we are close. Be it some over-weighted NEET wanting to buy ALL the manga or some crazy tourist bringing 50 copies of boylove manga to the cashier, he always finds his way of complaining these things without them really sounding like complain at all, rather witty remarks regarding the customers and how it will affect his work day. Honda-san himself is a great character because the downsides of his work really match with his thoughts. As a person who doesn't get offended over harmless humor, I have been having a blast with this one. It doesn't save anyone from its jokes be it the more casual newcomer readers or hardcore yaoi fangirls - and especially the bookstore staff - everyone will get their fair share of mocking. Honda-san is quite hotshit in terms of accuracy when it comes to physical manga releases, popular new series and the more obscure and demanding readers who would never even look at the mainstream shit-tier stuff (just to quote the series). We have colorful bunch of all sort of weirdos from mom person who comes to buy manga for her son whom she proceeds to call a nerd for reading manga out of all things, to a an adult man who is looking for homoerotic Gintama tentacle porn doujinshis asking like waddup hope

To say that this series is a meme would be an understatement. The entire things centers around his job and interactions with coworkers and customers.

This is a series about a skellington dude who is working at a manga store. Anime this great only appears like once a year.

Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san, Vol. 1 by Honda