![]() Read More: Review of Earthlings by Sayaka Murata Convenience Store Woman That wonderful convenience store woman helped me get my best foot forward as I started my commute into the centre of Tokyo, and I’ll always be grateful to her for it.Īs I devoured page after page of Convenience Store Woman I imagined its setting to be that same convenience store in Inagi-shi, and its wonderfully odd protagonist, Keiko, to be my same convenience store woman with her clock wound back a decade or so. ![]() ![]() She said it all with a toothy smile that some might call robotic or automated, but I was lulled to joy by each and every morning, rain or shine. She would greet me time and again with the same rising and falling pitch of her voice as she almost sang, ‘ ohayou gozaimasu!’ The phrase beginning low, reaching a squeaky midpoint and at last dropping to a near growl at the end. ![]()
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