Antique Gift shop Vol 1-2
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Bun-Nyuh is the latest in a line of shamans, but prefers science to mysticism. When her grandmother gives her the ultimatum of becoming a shaman or getting rid of all her antiques, Bun-Nyuh drops out of college to open an antique shop. When she puts out an ad for help, the only person to respond is a mysterious man known as Mr. Yang. He may be almost seven feet tall, look more like a girl than anyone else in the book, and entirely closemouthed regarding anything about himself, but he never asks for his paycheck.
Like a lot of series in the “mysterious shopkeeper/deal maker” manga genre, the series so far is mostly setting up the rules of the world, dropping hints about the characters and motivations. As tends to happen in the genre, the antiques have spirits of their own, and tend to choose their owners and affect their fates. So far, it’s entirely avoided the “customer with a fatal flaw” trope in the genre, instead focusing on people who need help with something. The only one who needed to “change” was a woman who, in the course of her story, learned to appreciate herself and appreciate others. Other than that, we’ve hard the story of two girls who may or may not be in love (ok, only reciprocation on one side is questionable) learn to be as honest with each other as they always thought they were-a story that echoes an event in Bun-Nyuh’s own past-and the beginning of the story of a boy was died shortly after learning the girl he loved loves someone else, and became a ghost.
So far, we don’t really know why Bun-Nyuh is so opposed to being a shaman, or why she’s determined to dismiss anything supernatural as “superstition.” Mr. Yang is mostly a mystery, though he’s indicated that he isn’t human, is looking for something in the shop, and dislikes humans, though he seems distantly (very, very distantly) fond of Bun-Nyuh in an amused way. Unlike other mysterious shopkeepers, he also goes to where his customers are and makes sure the antiques are doing what they’re supposed to be doing, and makes them behave/control themselves if they aren’t.
So far, we don’t really know why Bun-Nyuh is so opposed to being a shaman, or why she’s determined to dismiss anything supernatural as “superstition.” Mr. Yang is mostly a mystery, though he’s indicated that he isn’t human, is looking for something in the shop, and dislikes humans, though he seems distantly (very, very distantly) fond of Bun-Nyuh in an amused way. Unlike other mysterious shopkeepers, he also goes to where his customers are and makes sure the antiques are doing what they’re supposed to be doing, and makes them behave/control themselves if they aren’t.