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)

Gaikotsu Shotenin Honda-san Anime Visual 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

Gaikotsu Shotenin Honda-san Anime Key Visual “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

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