Truly, we are in skeleton world and we just don’t know it.
On September 12, the official Gaikotsu Shotenin Honda-san (Skeleton Bookstore Employee Honda-san) anime website updated with a new trailer and the show’s premiere schedule.
We break the details down below.
Trailer
The 102-second promo offers a look into the quirky world of the titular Honda-san, which is populated with gawkers, misfits, and incompetent coworkers. Character dialogue drives the main story beats.
Premiere
The show will air on October 7. The full broadcast schedule is as follows:
- Tokyo MX: 10/7/2018 at 25:35 (10/8/2018 at 1:35 AM)
- BS11: 10/7/2018 at 24:30 (10/8/2018 at 12:30 AM)
- Sun TV: 10/7/2018 at 25:30 (10/8/2018 at 1:30 AM)
- KBS Kyoto: 10/7/2018 at 26:10 (10/8/2018 at 2:10 AM)
- J:COM TV: 10/8/2018 at 22:30 (10/8/2018 at 10:30 PM)
NicoNico, dAnime Store, and J:COM On Demand will all offer the title in digital formats.
Gaikotsu Shotenin Honda-san will hit Japanese TV in October. Tokyo MX, BS11, Sun TV, KBS Kyoto, and J:COM will all carry the series.
Owl Todoroki will direct Gaikotsu Shotenin Honda-san at studio DLE, with Naoko Kakiki providing character designs. Shin Okashima is in charge of series composition for the project.
TECHNOBOYS PULCRAFT GREEN-FUND feat. Honda”, will perform opening theme song “ISBN ~Inner Sound & Book’s Narrative~ and closing theme Book-end, Happy-end.
Other confirmed staffers include:
- Music: TECHNOBOYS PULCRAFT GREEN-FUND
- Music Production: Lantis
- Sound Director: Yuichi Imaizumi
- Sound Production: Half HP Studio
“The series will star the following:
- Honda: Sōma Saitō
- Armor: Akemi Okamura
- Ko-omote: Aya Endo
- Hōtai: Eri Kitamura
- Full-Face: Hiroki Yasumoto
- Rabbit Head: Kazutomi Yamamoto
- Lantern: Kimiko Saitō
- Kendo: Kōtarō Nishiyama
- Okitsune: Shizuka Itou
- Yōsetsu Mask: Toshiki Masuda
- Gas Mask: Wataru Hatano
- Pest Mask: Yōko Hikasa
- Kamibukuro: Yuko Sanpei
Honda’s Gaikotsu Shotenin Honda-san manga made its début in August 2015 on image sharing site Pixiv. The first compiled book hit retailers on March 2016, while book 2 launched in December of the same year. Book 3 hit retailers on September 27, 2017.
Online resource Baka-Updates describes the series as:
Honda-san is a skeleton working in a bookstore, and he frequently has to deal with foreigners in the manga section.
Source: Ota-suke
Gaikotsu Shotenin Honda-san Anime Gets New Trailer, 10/7/2018 Premiere – Samantha Ferreira
