A first series, titled Kingyoya Koshoten Suitouchō, was published in Shōnen Gahōsha's Young King OURs's special editions OURs Girl and OURs Lite from 2000 to 2002, with its chapters collected in two volumes.

Kingyo Used Books was licensed in North America by Viz Media under their Viz Signature Ikki label.

Yoshizaki first launched a series titled Kingyoya Koshoten Suitouchō (金魚屋古書店出納帳), which was published from 2000 to 2002 in Shōnen Gahōsha's Young King OURs's special editions OURs Girl and OURs Lite.

[18] Kingyo Used Books was one of the Jury Recommended Works at the 16th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2012.

The critic went on to say, "Kingyo is, if anything, too fixated on giving history lessons, trying to drown the reader in footnotes and details rather than letting the series speak for itself.