The Great Passage

By Miura Shion · Kumota Haruko

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舟を編む · ja · originalThe Great Passage · enLa grande traversée (Le Lézard Noir) · frFune o Amu · ja-roFune wo Amu · ja-ro

The story follows the employees at the Genbu Shobō publishing company. Araki, who is a veteran editor for the dictionary department, is looking for a successor now that he's approaching retirement age. After Majime Mitsuya - a salesman who's a poor talker - meets Masashi Nishioka - Araki's coworker who is sociable and frivolous — Araki overhears their conversation and decides to recruit Majime into the department. The story follows "the awkward humans" Majime and Masashi as they work together to compile a medium-sized Japanese dictionary titled "The Great Passage" (Daitokai).