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[DeepL Translation - needs review] Volume 1 Introduction: The antique store "Kura" stands alone in the Teramachi Sanjo shopping street in Kyoto. Aoi Mashiro, a high school girl, happens to get acquainted with the owner's son, Kiyotaka Yagashira, and starts working there part-time. Kiyotaka is soft-spoken but has a keen sense of perception, and is called the "Holmes of Teramachi". Aoi, together with Kiyotaka, receives strange requests from various customers!
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(3.93/5)Kyoto dialect, travel, light mystery, and ドキドキ
Mixed feelings about ドキドキ part. Fun but slightly tropey.
I like the travel and smartness of Holmes (?). Maybe motives and execution of the storyline can be smoother?
Looking up not only in a dictionary, but also Wikipedia and the web.
Definitely a series I will continue. The audiobooks are great, imo and the mysteries are of a human drama kind rather than a criminal kind, and that's right up my alley. Not sure how I feel about the puppy love but I am hoping our MC is going to get a bit older before anything happens. keeping fingers crossed
There is a bit of 京都弁 and some specialised words (that often get explained, though) and references to famous artists but overall the language is pretty accessible, imo.


Cozy "light mysteries"
High school student 葵 (あおい) moves to Kyoto and meets 家頭清貴 (やがしら•きよたか), a young college student known as "ホームズ", ostensibly nicknamed so because of his last name. ホームズ is essentially an expert in identifying and evaluating antiques, and 葵 accompanies him on trips to do so; they end up running into mysteries as they do so: not murder mysteries, or mysteries about things stolen, but mysteries about what a now-deceased person wanted to communicate to their family, or mysteries about who's sending a