Abstract

The year is 1886, in the summer of the Meiji era.
Toranosuke, a child demon, roams with his companion Ushimatsu, collecting the souls of humans whose time has come.
Though humans should not be able to see him, one day a man named Sōma suddenly speaks to him.
Toranosuke, who has never had contact with people of “this world,” finds himself asked by Sōma to exorcise a ghost—!?

A moving Meiji tale portraying the lives of the hidden realm Kakuriyo and the present world Utsushiyo.

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