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Somali and the Forest Spirit (GN 1)

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Title: Somali and the Forest Spirit
Volume: GN 1
Pages: 192
Distributor: Titan Comics

Release date: 2024-12-17
Suggested retail price: $12.99

ISBN-10: 1787743624 1787743624
ISBN-13: 9781787743625 9781787743625

Description:
"Top 10 Must Read Manga of 2024" - Publishers Weekly

For fans of cozy and pastoral fantasy and the eponymous hit anime on Crunchyroll. This is the adventure of a lifetime as a kindly forest guardian golem sets out to protect a young human girl from a world of goblins and oni!

Explore a world from the hit anime of the same name, a world ruled by goblins, spirits, golems, and all types of strange creatures… but not humans, who were nearly persecuted to extinction for their reckless disregard of the natural world.

When a golem, a guardian of the forest chances across a young girl lost in the woods, he vows to take care of her… despite his life coming to an end. He must find other humans for her to live with, but in a world that despises them, is that even possible?

(added on 2024-12-23, modified on 2025-01-20)

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