Ever since he was a boy, Matsuri Kazamaki has worked as an exorcist. Because his childhood friend Suzu Kanade attracts malicious spirits called ayakashi like moths to a flame, Matsuri is tasked with slaying any with ill intentions.... more>>

One day, an ayakashi named Shirogane notices the budding romance between these two childhood friends. Eager to both devour Suzu and foil Matsuri’s chance at love, he performs a forbidden spell... <<less

This protagonist, the most demonically strong exorcist. Akira the S-class exorcist sent from Germany to investigate a paranormal event in a certain city in Japan.... more>> He shoots creatures from other worlds with his beautiful exorcist partner Chikage. <<less

My grotesque (stalker), protects me from 100 stalkers in order to eat me.... more>>

Sakurai Aoi, a high school boy, has a secret that he can tell no one. He's been a victim of stalking since childhood.

One day Ueda Miyako, a classmate, suddenly turned into a monster. She was the one who was stalking Sakurai. The beautiful Miyako, who has been around Sakurai for a long time, was taken care of, but the monsters in urban legends all over Japan are stalking in order to love themselves. The fate of Sakurai, who is loved by the mysterious name of hundreds of beautiful women, is...

It's a great point to start! Pure love story about a man's love, greed and illness who was attracted by grotesque girls.

Note: This description was originally written in broken English and fixed up <<less

Nishizuru Yakki is a permanent part-timer, regular customer in a maid-cafe, and 20-year-old virgin. What makes him special is his ability to see ghosts. But... more>> ghosts are not monsters, they are mostly harmless. At least our hero can live by simply ignoring them. Yakki never believed in monsters until the day when he meets the girl named Rokka. This cheerful girl appears to have a secret... <<less

At the young age of 11, Kotoko Iwanaga was abducted by youkai for two weeks and asked to become their "God of Wisdom," a mediator between the spirit and human worlds, to which the girl quickly agreed but at the cost of her right eye and left leg. Now, six years later, whenever youkai wish for their problems to be solved, they make their way to Kotoko for consultation.... more>>

Meanwhile, Kurou Sakuragawa, a 22-year-old university student, has just broken up with his girlfriend after he fled alone when the two encountered a kappa. Seeing this as her chance to become closer with him, Kotoko immediately makes her move, hoping to get married to Kurou one day. However, she quickly realizes there is something more to Kurou. With this knowledge, she asks for his help in solving the various issues presented by the supernatural, all the while wishing her newfound partner will eventually reciprocate her feelings. <<less

The story takes place in the era where humans and apparitions co-exists, a large number of spirits poured out, resulting in a heavy imbalance between the Yin and Yang world. Kyoto is facing an unprecedented crisis… Can the Onmyoji who is in charge of protecting Kyoto awaken his lost memories? And how will it rewrite the destructive fate of Heian-kyo?... more>>

Based on the game of the same name. <<less

Female college student Aoi inherited her deceased grandfather's ability to see ayakashi. One day, while Aoi is feeding some ayakashi, a demon appears! He declares... more>> that Aoi's grandfather owed a great debt, and as compensation, Aoi must marry the demon! Aoi refuses, and decides to pay off the debt by working at the inn of the afterlife, the Tenjin-ya. <<less

Ashiya has spent the first seven days of high school stuck in the infirmary because of a "mononoke" attaching itself to him. He ends up asking the owner of a small tearoom - Mononokean - for help. ... more>>

A series of mysterious stories involving the very morose owner of Mononokean, who guides mononoke to pass on to the next world. <<less

Akina, Hime, Kotoha, and Ao are four members of the Hiizumi's Everyday-Life Consultation Office, which, in addition to helping kindergartners deal with tough times, strives... more>> to preserve the peace of their little town, Sakurashin, by hunting down the troublemakers who dare threaten it. <<less

It's the Meiji Era in a slightly alternate Japan, and the Gregorian calendar has just come into effect. The fox-eared girls living in the youkai... more>> part of town are about to be put to work together with a delegation of young human soldiers, to promote interracial understanding. So what will happen when Zakuro's strong personality collides with human sensibilities? <<less

Inaba Yuushi's parents passed away when he was in his first year of middle school, forcing him to move in with relatives. Though they did care for him, he could tell he was being a burden. After graduation he was all set to move to a high school with a dormitory, but said dorms suddenly burn down! It's tough finding lodgings as an orphaned student with little money, but Yuushi somehow manages to acquire a room in a nice old building close to the train station.... more>>

Of course there's a catch: the place is a "youkai apartment," where humans and supernatural creatures - ghosts, mononoke, oni and the like - live next door to each other. A friendly high school sophomore named Akine lives there as well, but not only is she completely unfazed by the monsters, she can even exorcise evil spirits! Looks like Yuushi's new life is going to be much stranger than he bargained for... <<less

Nine centimeters (3.5 inches) tall, the tiny girls Hakumei and Mikochi live in the forest. Living in a tiny house in a tree, riding insects and birds, and making umbrellas out of leaves, these tiny girls live a tiny life. Follow their tiny but lovely lives as they live day to day in a fantastic world of tiny people and gods.... more>>

Note: Formerly known as Kobito Hiyori. <<less

While walking around town one day, 5th grader Amano Keita notices a bizarre capsule toy machine in the woods and decides to buy a toy. But when he opens the capsule he receives, a ghostly creature named Whisper materializes. Impressed that Keita neither ran away nor bombarded him with questions, he decides to give Keita the Youkai Watch. The watch is a device that allows the wearer to see youkai, which are fantastical creatures, each type possessing different kinds of magical abilities, and which are normally invisible to humans. The Youkai Watch also allows the wearer to summon any youkai he has befriended, enabling the wearer to make use of the youkai's powers. Using it,... more>> Keita and Whisper encounter many mischievous youkai around town, resolving the trouble they're causing and befriending many at the same time.

Based on the hit video game of the same name, and winner of the 2014 Kodansha Children's Manga Award. <<less

Hakuba Keijiro doesn't have any interest in girls, until he meets a beautiful girl that is also very unusual. The girl in question is dressed... more>> in an old-fashioned style, and seems to have nearly complete amnesia. The only thing she remembers is that her name is "Hiiragi." Keijiro gets his parents to take guardianship of her while they look for her real family, and Hiiragi moves in. But who is she, really? Is she a princess, come through some kind of time-slip? Is she something supernatural? Hiiragi herself would like to know... <<less

With the destiny of searching for a bride, the youkai teenage boy came to Tokyo from a small island: Hanzou. A maiden who develops a... more>> youkai-attracting constitution at 16: Ichijouji Mei. With the youkai's heaven "Tokyo" as its stage, Girl-Meets-Monster love comedy. <<less

The fearsome Rain Woman youkai finds a little boy to haunt, but finds in him more than what she bargained for: A little kernel in... more>> her heart. <<less

Hitomu is a young guy with no goals or dreams: he goes to work, comes home, sleeps, and repeats. That changes when he’s abducted by... more>> a god and forced to participate in a gladiatorial tournament to find the weakest being in all of space and time! After Hitomu loses repeatedly, he’s set against four weakling opponents to fight to the death…but he instead finds a way to escape, breaking out his fellow “losers”: a ghost boy, a slime girl, a useless robot, and a bug monster. Now fugitives on a hostile planet, the five weirdos must rely on each other. Alone they can’t do squat, but together they just might be able to survive. <<less

A middle-aged man goes to the mountain to commit suicide. On the way he finds a sealed youkai black fox girl in a small cave and she ask him to free her, and he does it without a second thought and goes on to die but the fox girl, despite her original intentions forces the man to give up and they eventually marry.... more>>

This is the marriage life of the two <<less

The series follows Meisuke Nueno, better known as Nube, an exorcist who also happens to be the teacher for a 5th grade class at Domori... more>> Elementary. While he uses many various exorcism techniques, his main weapon is the Demon Hand (Oni no Te) which is the power of a chaotic oni sealed right where his left hand should be. The series follows Nube and Domori class 5-3 though the many weird, chaotic, and downright silly and insane encounters they face with the many forms and elements of the supernatural. <<less

When our hero, Matsubara Yuu, suddenly finds himself moving back to his mother's home, a number of strange things happen to him. He meets Suzu,... more>> a beautiful girl who falls in love with him at once, even wanting to have his children. Even if he wants to run away from the situation, his way is blocked by a huge cow attacking him. In fact, in all of these incidents, he seems to be the cause... [translation from cover by rpapo] <<less

Follow the life of cat-girl Kurona and her friends as they meet other monsters, demons and spirits - learning how to deal with them...and with... more>> humans! <<less

In a world swarming with yokai demons... One day, mediocre exorcist Kazami encounters a beautiful girl named Paira. But who is she?! And could the... more>> seemingly useless Kazami actually have a special ability? Get ready for a new generation of yokai battle comedy manga! [MANGA Plus] <<less

Our protagonist, Inoue Konoha is still being led around by his senpai, the Literature Club's President, self-acclaimed "Literature Girl" who loves stories so much that she can eat them, Amano Touko. ... more>>

　One day, someone put in the Literature Club's "Love Consultation Post Box" a bunch of paper scraps that have the words like "Hate", "Ghost is" and a bunch of puzzling numbers on them. Calling the act as "picking a fight with the Literature Club", Touko once again got Konoha involved in her investigation; but when they found the culprit, this girl turned toward them, smile, then said "I'm already dead."

　This is the second arc of the popular bitter & sweet school mystery series. <<less

Arata Miyako is newly assigned to the Shinjuku Ward Office's Nighttime Regional Relations Department. Each of Tokyo's 23 wards has one such department, established to... more>> mitigate paranormal and occult-related events. Arata's special skill is the understanding of non-human speech, and the story begins with him encountering a youkai at Shinjuku Gyoen park who refers to him as the legendary Heian-era exorcist, Abe no Seimei. <<less

Youkai are specters who have lived in the human world since the dawn of time. They often rest peacefully in their dwelling places, until humans rouse them by inconsiderate actions. Kitaro is a young youkai boy who wants to help humans and youkai live in harmony, and he fights to protect humans from the enraged youkai who lash out at them.... more>>

Note: For Kodansha's version of the series that began in 1967, the first volume is titled "Hakaba no Kitarou," but volume 2 and upwards are titled "Gegege no Kitarou."

Compilation Releases by Drawn & Quarterly

Vol. 0: Kitaro

Vol. 1: Birth of Kitaro

Vol. 2: Kitaro Meets Nurarihyon

Vol. 3: Kitaro and the Great Tanuki War

Vol. 4: Kitaro's Strange Adventures

Vol. 5: Kitaro the Vampire Slayer

Vol. 6: Kitaro's Yokai Battles

Vol. 7: Kitaro's Trial <<less