Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is a doujin role-playing game, originally released in December 2007 by Easy Game Station at the 73rd Comiket. It is the successor/sequel to Chantelise. A young girl named Recette Lemongrass is left to live by herself after her father goes on a long journey. Unfortunately, her dad also left her with a massive debt which is sure to bankrupt them and put them on the streets if it is not paid off. Tear, a fairy sent to collect the payment, suggests that Recette convert her house into an item shop to raise the money to pay it off. For a little while Recette laments the prospect of being put on the streets, but soon comes to like the idea of being a merchant and christens her newly founded shop "Recettear" (a Portmanteau of Recette's and Tear's names).