Ichigo Kurosaki has always been able to see ghosts, but this ability doesn't change his life nearly as much as his close encounter with Rukia Kuchiki, a Soul Reaper and member of the mysterious Soul Society. While fighting a Hollow, an evil spirit that preys on humans who display psychic energy, Rukia attempts to lend Ichigo some of her powers so that he can save his family; but much to her surprise, Ichigo absorbs every last drop of her energy. Now a full-fledged Soul Reaper himself, Ichigo quickly learns that the world he inhabits is one full of dangerous spirits and, along with Rukia--who is slowly regaining her powers--it's Ichigo's job to protect the innocent... more>> from Hollows and help the spirits themselves find peace.

Note: Won the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen category in 2005. <<less

Overdevelopment and crowding in Japan has forced many of its indigenous spirits and ghosts to lose their homes. Due to problems caused by the homeless spirits, a new profession was created, the Ghost Sweepers (GS). Private exorcists for hire; they serve only the highest bidder to survive in the cutthroat corporate world. Among this, the Mikami GS Company, led by Reiko Mikami and her two assistants, the teenage boy Tadao Yokoshima and the ghost girl Okinu, is said to be the best.... more>>

The manga setup is scenario-to-scenario, with many plots intertwining classic Japanese culture and modern day realities, with occasional references to Western influences. In between these plots are some longer story arcs where new characters are introduced and the existing characters are further developed. There is no one ongoing storyline, therefore the plots are character-driven and serve to gradually develop characters, especially the main protagonists.

GS Mikami Gokuraku Daisakusen!! won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shounen. <<less

By night, junior high student Yoshimori Sumimura is a "kekkaishi"--a demon-hunter who specializes in creating magical barriers around his prey. By day, Yoshimori's got some other demons to battle: an addiction to sweets and a seriously crotchety grandfather! Yoshimori's pretty 16-year-old neighbor and childhood friend, Tokine Yukimura, is also a kekkaishi, but their families are feuding over who is the true practitioner of the art.... more>>

Won the 52nd Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen category. <<less

As a little boy, Si Mun, the grandson of a famous shaman, gained the ability to see—and communicate with—ghosts. His grandmother gave him a talisman which rid him of this ability and erased his memories of any supernatural phenomena he had witnessed. ... more>>

Years later, Si Mun is working a hectic, yet ordinary job as a homicide detective in the Korean police force. His grandmother has since passed on, but the powers she sealed away appear to be reawakening... <<less

Rikuo Nura is descended from Nurarihyon, Grand Master of the spirit world, but appears to be just a normal kid. He usually just wants to... more>> live peacefully as a human, but when his friends and allies are in trouble, his spirit blood boils, and he transforms into Nurarihyon to wipe out evil! A new concept story combining spirits and chivalry! A piquant, gallant ghost action story! <<less

Watanuki Kimihiro is haunted by visions of ghosts and spirits. Seemingly by chance, he encounters a mysterious witch named Yûko, who claims she can help.... more>> In desperation, he accepts, but realizes that he's just been tricked into working for Yûko in order to pay off the cost of her services. Soon he's employed in her little shop- a job which turns out to be nothing like his previous work experience! <<less

As a child Sakura Mamiya mysteriously disappeared in the woods behind her grandma's home. She returned whole and healthy, but since then she has had... more>> the power to see ghosts. Now a teenager, she just wishes the ghosts would leave her alone! At school, the desk next to Sakura’s has been empty since the start of the school year, then one day her always-absent classmate shows up, and he's far more than what he seems! <<less

Kageyama Shigeo (a.k.a. Mob ) is an 8th grader with psychic abilities. He could bend spoons and lift objects with his mind from a young age, but he slowly began to withhold from using his abilities in public due to the negative attention he kept receiving. Now, the only thing he wants is to become friends with a girl in his class, Tsubomi. With his psychic "mentor" (who has no psychic powers), he continues his daily life, attempting to realize his purpose in life.... more>>

Note: Won the 62nd Shogakukan Manga Award for Shounen. <<less

Fuyuzora Kogarashi has spirit abilities, and has been possessed by ghosts since he was a kid. This has caused a lot of trouble in his life, but now he has learned to fight back against the evil spirits! Unfortunately, he's now homeless and hoping for a happier, more normal, high school life. In his search for housing, he's introduced to a very cheap boarding house called Yuragi-sou, which was formerly a popular hot springs inn. It's so cheap because the house is haunted by the spirit of a high school student whose corpse was found there.... more>>

Kogarashi doesn't think this is going to be a problem for him, and the rest of the house's tenants appear to be sexy women. While relaxing in the hot springs, though, he finds there is an issue with his ghost-banishing plan; Yuragi-sou's ghost is a 16-year-old girl named Yuna, who lives in his room. Kogarashi has no desire to hurt a ghost girl, and instead he ends up agreeing to help her to figure out her unfinished business. That way, she can move onto the afterlife before turning evil and falling into hell. Once it is clear that he is fine with Yuna, the other tenants began to reveal their own supernatural secrets and it becomes obvious that Kogarashi's life in Yuragi-sou is going to be far from ordinary! <<less

There's a rift between Hell and the mortal world, and lost souls have been escaping to torment the living. To deal with the problem, the... more>> King of Hell released Majeh, the greatest swordsman of the underworld, to stop the wayward souls. <<less

Liz is a normal teenage girl who can see monsters... that want to eat her. The only person who can save her is a demon with a creepy smile and an appetite for live cats. But first, she has to become his fiancé!... more>>

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He’s a dark, uber-powerful god-level demon…who’s also really helpful around the house. Welcome to the unique world of Ghost Wife, where an average high school girl can go to sleep with normal teenage problems, only to wake up and find herself married to an over-protective demon with a creepy smile and an appetite for live cats. <<less

A perfect school idol meets a gloomy loner boy!... more>>

The main character's only friends are ghosts so he gets a big shock when the class idol initiates a conversation with him on the first day of school. <<less

Yoh Asakura is a shaman--one of the gifted few who, thanks to training or natural talent, can channel spirits that most people can't even see.... more>> With the help of his fiancée, Anna, Yoh is in training for the ultimate shaman sports event: the "Shaman Fight in Tokyo," the once-every-500-years tournament to see who can shape humanity's future and become the Shaman King. But unfortunately for Yoh, every shaman in the world is competing for the same prize… <<less

Yusuke Urameshi was a tough teen delinquent until one selfless act changed his life... by ending it. When he died saving a little kid from a speeding car, the afterlife didn't know what to do with him, so it gave him a second chance at life. Now, Yusuke is a ghost with a mission, performing good deeds at the behest of Botan, the ferrywoman of the River Styx, and Koenma, the pacifier-sucking judge of the dead.... more>>

Note: Won the 39th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen category. <<less

Kurogane Hiroto is in high school, where he is academically the top of his class but literally the worst in physical activity. Born with a weak body, he has no endurance, speed nor strength and Hiroto wants nothing more than to be a hero. Fate teases him by giving him phenomenal eye sight, which allows him to see well beyond anyone else in sports, but his body is not able to react to any of it.... more>>

He learns from his friend Shiratori, who wants to recruit him for the Kendo team, about a rumor about a ghost named Tojo Sayuri, who wields a katana and haunts an alley in the city. Half curious, Hiroto goes there only to find that the ghost is real and that Tojo Sayuri has been looking for a successor to her Sakura sword style for 150 years. Sayuri chooses him as the successor after being able to dodge her attack and forces him to learn the Sakura style. Even with the help of the ancient swordsman ghost, Hiroto has to overcome his poor motor skills in order to be the hero he always wanted to be. <<less

When Jeongha, the temperamental young son of a wealthy businessman was suddenly stricken down with a mysterious illness, his father scrambled to look for a cure. But the debilitating affliction persisted. Desperate and out of option, the father sought out help from a temple up on a misty mountain to save the life of his only son. ... more>>

As he stood waiting at the foot of the mountain for the temple people, he was approached by a village elderly man. The man told him that if the problem was small, he would be met by young temple people. If the problem was average, he would be met by middle aged people. And if the problem was grave, he would be met by elderly people, in which case he would need to prepare his heart for the worst. But on the rare occasion where a child came down to meet him, he would have to beg for his child’s life as if his own life depended on it.

As the elderly man was leaving, the temple people arrived. Who came down from the temple to find the father? <<less

Choi Ha Ram, an average high schooler decides to buy a necklace one day without knowing that this item is going to turn her life upside down! That necklace has a connection with the ghost of Yu Ga On and whoever wears it is able to see him.... more>>

Yu Ga On has no intentions to harm the girl on the contrary actually but his actions always seem to get Choi Ha Ram in trouble. As if this was not enough a new neighbour comes along to add more excitement in her life! <<less

When you have an invisible roommate.

You think your ghost stories are scary? Try listening to these stories from the ghosts themselves.

The story centers around twin brothers, Arago and Ewan, whose parents were slaughtered by monsters. Years later, the vengeful Arago crosses paths with Ewan, who... more>> has since become a police officer, just as blood begins to flow again in the streets of London. <<less

The vampire Staz is one of the most powerful district bosses in the demon world, fending off everyone who dares challenge him. But secretly, the... more>> fearsome Staz is obsessed with human culture, especially video games, manga, and everything that comes from Japan! When a Japanese girl wanders into the demon world, Staz can’t wait to meet the human and learn everything he can about her world. Unfortunately, before he’s able to ask her anything, the girl is killed by one of his would-be usurpers, leaving just her bare soul behind. Staz vows to help the girl restore her body and return to her former life—especially since it means taking a trip to the human world himself! <<less

College student Washizuki Sara was shown a mysterious film photograph by paranormal photographer Ryuuzaki Tousei. In it was captured something she had left sealed away with her memories of a particular incident in her elementary school days…... more>>

Based on the hit video game "Fatal Frame." <<less

Myoujin is a guide for spirits. Unlike most people, he can see ghosts, ghosts who live and wander in the same world we do. But... more>> he's got something even more special up his sleeve: he can touch them. Okegawa Himeno is an ordinary 16 year-old girl studying in Tokyo. But now she's become Myoujin's housemate, infact, he's her landlord. After a close brush with death herself, Himeno becomes able to see the walking dead herself. At least now she's able to meet her neighbours. <<less

High-school girl, Kanzaki Mitsuki, just got a new older brother, when her mother remarries a man with a son. Soon after, her new step father... more>> gets transferred overseas and her mother follows him there, leaving Mitsuki alone with her new step brother, Yuuya. Feeling abandoned by her mother, she stays distant from Yuuya, never really getting along very well with him nor even keeping a conversation with him, until one day.... <<less

The first two volumes contain thematically linked but self-contained stories concerning Tomie - a beautiful young woman with the power to seduce and dominate any male, from small boys to elderly men. Later, the series leaves these characters behind and focuses on stand-alone gothic horror pieces.... more>>

--- Junji Ito's Museum of Terror

1. Tomie

Tomie

Photograph

Kiss

Mansion

Revenge

The Basin of the Waterfall

2. Tomie - Part 2

Tomie Part 2

Basement

Painter

Murder

Hair

Orphan Girl

3. Flesh-Colored Horror

Long Hair in the Attic

Approval

Beehive

Dying Young

Headless Sculptures

Flesh-Colored Horror

4. The Face Burglar

Included one-shots:

The Face Burglar

Scarecrows

Falling

Red String

My Dear Ancestors

The Hanging Balloons

5. Souichi's Diary of Delights

Included one-shots:

Fun Summer Vacation

Fun Winter Vacation

Souichi's Diary of Delights

Souichi's Home Tutor

Mannequin Teacher

Souichi's Birthday

6. Souichi's Diary of Curses

Included one-shots:

Souichi's Selfish Curse

The Room with Four Walls (The Silent Room)

Coffin

Rumours

Fashion Model

7. Slug Girl

Included one-shots:

Slug Girl

Thing that Drifted Ashore

Mold

The Chill (Shivers)

The Inn (Ryokan)

The Groaning Drain

Bio-House

8. Blood-Bubble Bushes

Included one-shots:

Blood-Bubble Bushes

Unbearable Maze (Unbearable Labyrinth)

Sword of the Reanimator

The Will

The Bridge

The Devil's Logic

The Conversation Room (Sharing Rooms)

9. Hallucinations

Included one-shots:

Hallucinations

Bog of the Living Dead

Penpal

Intruder

Further Tales of Oshikiri

Further Tales of Oshikiri: The Walls

10. House of the Marionettes

Included one-shots:

Ice Cream Bus

Club House (Gang House)

The Smoking Club

Second-hand Records

Den of the Sleep Demon (The Sleeping Room)

The Gift Bearer (Gift Man)

House of the Marionettes (House of the Puppets)

11. The Town Without Streets

Included one-shots:

The Town Without Streets

Near Miss!

Maptown (Road Map)

Village of the Sirens

The Supernatural Transfer Student

12. The Bully

Included one-shots:

The Bully

A Deserter in the House (House of the Deserter)

Heart of a Father

Memory

The Back Alley

Love as Scripted

In the Soil

13. The Circus is Here

Included one-shots:

The Circus is Here

Gravetown (Street of Gravestones)

The Window Next Door (The Adjacent Window)

The Bizarre Hikizuri Siblings: Narumi's Boyfriend (Sleuth Kids: The Second Daughter's Lover)

The Bizarre Hikizuri Siblings: The Seance (Sleuth Kids: The Assembly of Fallen Ghost)

14. The Story of the Mysterious Tunnel

Included one-shots:

Long Dream

The Story of the Mysterious Tunnel

The Bronze Statue

Drifting Spores (Floating Particles)

Blood Sickness of the White Sands Village

15. Lovesick Dead

Included one-shots:

The Intersection's Pretty Boy

The Troubled Woman

Shadow

Night of Screams

Sequel: The White Clothed Pretty Boy

16. Frankenstein

Included one-shots:

Frankenstein

Hell O'Dollies (A Doll's Hellish Burial)

Memories of Real Shit

--- Junji Ito Collection Masterpiece

01-02.

03. (Souichi's Selfish Curse)

04. (Lovesick Dead)

05. (A Deserter in the House)

06. (The Back Alley)

07. (Headless Sculptures)

08. (The Groaning Drain)

09. (Gravetown)

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11. (Smashed) <<less