Kappa no Sanpei : Reprint of Manga for Loan (Medium)

Sanpei, a boy who looks just like a kappa, lives deep in the mountains in the middle of nowhere, when his father returns after 10 years. His father leaves again, but 10 dwarfs appear from the trunk he left behind. Sanpei is perplexed, but decides to provide for them. He learns rocket swimming from Kappa in preparation for a swimming competition, and becomes best friends with Tanuki, a fellow fighter, after an unusual incident at Daikon Hatake... A great commotion unfolds in the good old Japanese countryside. This moving middle volume depicts encounters and partings.

Sanpei, a boy who looks just like a kappa, lives deep in the mountains in the middle of nowhere, when his father returns after 10 years. His father leaves again, but 10 dwarfs appear from the trunk he left behind. Sanpei is perplexed, but decides to provide for them. He learns rocket swimming from Kappa in preparation for a swimming competition, and becomes best friends with Tanuki, a fellow fighter, after an unusual incident at Daikon Hatake... A great commotion unfolds in the good old Japanese countryside. This moving middle volume depicts encounters and partings.