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Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san (TV)

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Alternative title:
Gaikotsu Shotenin Honda-san (Japanese)
ガイコツ書店員 本田さん (Japanese)
Plot Summary: A skeleton named Honda works in a bookstore. Hilarity ensues daily in her work at the shop's manga counter.
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User Ratings: 93 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: -
 Excellent: 8 votes (sub:8)
 Very good: 25 votes (sub:24, dub:1)
 Good: 30 votes (sub:27, dub:1, others:2
2 Spanish subtitled
)
 Decent: 19 votes (sub:19)
 So-so: 5 votes (sub:5)
 Not really good: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Weak: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Bad: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 168 users, rank: #4226 (of 9750)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.860 (Good), std. dev.: 1.4708, rank: #4511 (of 9894)
Weighted mean: 6.876 (Good), rank: #4307 (of 9894) (seen all: 7.19 / won't finish: 4.45)
Bayesian estimate: 6.950 (Good), rank: #3665 (of 7486)
Episode titles: We have 12
Vintage: 2018-10-07
Opening Theme:
"ISBN ~Inner Sound & Book's Narrative~" by TECHNOBOYS PULCRAFT GREEN-FUND feat. Honda
Ending Theme:
"Book-end, Happy-end." by TECHNOBOYS PULCRAFT GREEN-FUND feat. Hiroshi Takano
Reviews: Show:
Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san ‒ Episode 12 (Dec 28, 2018)
Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san ‒ Episode 11 (Dec 18, 2018)
Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san ‒ Episode 10 (Dec 10, 2018)
Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san ‒ Episode 9 (Dec 3, 2018)
Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san ‒ Episode 8 (Nov 26, 2018)
Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san ‒ Episode 7 (Nov 19, 2018)
Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san ‒ Episode 6 (Nov 12, 2018)
Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san ‒ Episode 5 (Nov 5, 2018)
Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san ‒ Episode 4 (Oct 29, 2018)
Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san ‒ Episode 3 (Oct 22, 2018)
Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san (Oct 15, 2018)
Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san ‒ Episodes 1-2 (Oct 15, 2018)
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san (Sub.Blu-ray) 2022-03-29 (from $64.99)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Owl Todoroki
Series Composition: Shin Okashima
Script: Shin Okashima (eps 1-12)
Storyboard: Owl Todoroki (eps 1-12)
Episode Director: Owl Todoroki (eps 1-12)
Music: TECHNOBOYS PULCRAFT GREEN-FUND (Lantis)
Original creator: Honda
Character Design: Naoko Kakiki
Animation Director: Naoko Kakiki (eps 1-12)
Sound Director: Yūichi Imaizumi (Half HP Studio)
Producer:
Daisuke Masaki
Guo Xiang Yang
Kenichi Kobayashi
Masahiro Saito
Noriko Itō
Takahiro Fujii
Terushige Yoshie

Animation:
Jun Mita (eps 3-9 odd)
Makiko Takamichi (eps 2-3, 11)
Mame Suzuki (ep 11)
Mitsuru Inoue (Sugarless Factory; eps 4-12 even)
Naoko Kakiki (7 episodes
eps 1-3, 5-11 odd
)
Rieko Matsumura (Sugarless Factory; eps 4-12 even)
Shinpei Tsutsumi (6 episodes
eps 1-3, 5, 7, 9
)
Yōko Ueda (Sugarless Factory; eps 4-12 even)
Animation producer:
Koutarou Yamawaki
Masahiro Saito
Associate producer: Mika Ono
Distribution Manager: Kei Nishi
Editing: Owl Todoroki (eps 1-12)
Format Editing Manager:
Jun'ichi Masunaga
Naho Takahashi
Licensing: Miwako Fujita
Music A&R: Rui Hagiwara
Music producer: Junnosuke Sato
Official Site Production: Kazumi Nishibayashi
Original Work Assistant:
Misaki Ebisawa
Noboru Segawa
Original Work Manager: Nori Yada
Overseas Licensing:
Gui Jie Xu
Jia Cheng Zhang
Mai Katō
Masayuki Ooshima
Planning:
Jun Katou
Kazuhiko Yusa
Kenichiro Kaneda
Ryūta Shiiki
Takeshi Kikuchi
Yuka Sakurai
Zhen Mu Kang
Planning Assistant:
Hidenori Kojima (Quaras)
Isao Ishikawa (Quaras)
Production Advancement: Shūji Fujita (eps 4-12 even)
Production Committee:
Atsushi Ariyoshi
Daijō Kudō
Fumie Takeuchi
Guo Xiang Yang
Hui Ling Gao
Jun'ichirō Tamura
Production Desk: Akihiro Saitō
Publicity:
Kenichi Kobayashi
Mina Ōkubo
Publicity Assistant: Hitomi Ishida
Sound Editor: Konomi Seki
Sound Effects: Kaori Yamada
Sound Mixing: Takashi Shibata
Sound Production Manager: Katsuhiro Ono
Theme Song Arrangement: TECHNOBOYS PULCRAFT GREEN-FUND (OP; ED)
Theme Song Composition: TECHNOBOYS PULCRAFT GREEN-FUND (OP; ED)
Theme Song Lyrics:
Hiroshi Takano (ED)
TECHNOBOYS PULCRAFT GREEN-FUND (OP)
Theme Song Performance:
Hiroshi Takano (ED)
Sōma Saitō (OP)
TECHNOBOYS PULCRAFT GREEN-FUND (OP; ED)
Sōma Saitō as Honda

Akemi Okamura as Armor
Aya Endō as Ko-omote (Little Mask)
Eri Kitamura as Hōtai (Bandage)
Hiroki Yasumoto as Full-Face (Helmet)
Kazutomi Yamamoto as Rabbit Head
Kimiko Saitō as Lantern
Kōtarō Nishiyama as Kendo
Shizuka Itō as Okitsune (Fox)
Toshiki Masuda as Yōsetsu Mask (Welding Mask)
Wataru Hatano as Gas Mask
Yōko Hikasa as Pest Mask (Black Plague Mask)
Yūko Sanpei as Kamibukuro (Paper Bag)

Akemi Okamura as Michelle (ep 1)
Akeno Watanabe as Smile Banchou (ep 4)
Aya Endō as
Abby (ep 1)
Honwaka-san (ep 4)
Reina (ep 1)
Rino (ep 8)
Ayumu Murase as Azarashi-san
Emiko Takeuchi as
Jenny (ep 1)
Sara (ep 1)
Eri Kitamura as
Chie-chan (ep 3)
Goth Loli (Yokohama Eki girl; ep 9)
Katarina (ep 1)
Frédéric Toutlemonde as Himself (ep 3)
Kazutomi Yamamoto as E Company salesman (ep 3)
Kenjirō Tsuda as OK Ojisan (ep 8)
Kimiko Saitō as
Naomi (ep 1)
old woman (ep 1)
Kōsuke Toriumi as Wholesaler-san (ep 7)
Kōtarō Nishiyama as
AD-kun (ep 8)
Michael (ep 8)
old guy (ep 4)
Misa Ishii as
part-timer (ep 3)
Princess Kadokawa (ep 3)
Ryūsei Nakao as Assistant Manager Majutsushi (eps 6-7)
Sayuri Hara as Sasami (ep 4)
Shinichirō Miki as Manga Department Head Tengai (ep 11)
Shizuka Itō as
book fairy (ep 9)
Christina (ep 1)
Volleyball Jersey (ep 4)
Tesshō Genda as Budda-head (ep 4)
Toshiki Masuda as
father (ep 8)
gyaruo (ep 8)
Meishi T (ep 1)
Wataru Hatano as
Chief Editor (ep 8)
Lord Kadokawa (ep 3)
Shoplifting G-Man (ep 11)
Wataru Komada as Handsome Old Guy (ep 1)
Yōko Hikasa as gyaru (ep 8)
Yūko Sanpei as Karen (ep 1)
Japanese companies
Animation: Sugarless Factory (eps 4-12 even)
Animation Production: DLE
Format Editing:
Imagica (ep 1)
IMAGICA Lab. (eps 2-12)
Music Production: Lantis
Planning Assistance: Quaras
Production: Gaikotsu Shotenin Honda-san Production Committee
Recording Studio: Three S Studio
Sound Production: HALF H·P STUDIO
Title Logo Design: arcoinc
English staff
English companies
Translation: Rei Miyasaka
Distributor: Discotek Media (via Crunchyroll)
Internet Streaming: Crunchyroll
Licensed by: Crunchyroll
English cast
(none)
French staff
French cast
Adaptation: Stéphanie Noardo (eps 2-12)
Proofreading: Stéphanie Noardo (ep 1)
(none)
French companies
(none)

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