Shizuku No Kairaku Ochi — Mane Ja Seikatsu [work]

Shizuku no Kairaku Ochi, Mane ja Seikatsu, also known as "Shizuku," is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by the renowned manga artist, Akeji Fujimura. The series was later adapted into an anime television drama in 1998. The story revolves around the life of Shizuku Tsukishima, a young book lover who stumbles upon a mysterious bookstore called "Kairaku-ya" and finds herself entwined in a mystical world of book collecting.