Manga like Elegant Yokai Apartment Life

What is Elegant Yokai Apartment Life about?

Status: Finished

Yokai, ghosts, and humans living together in harmony? Yushi Inaba was taken in by his uncle’s family after losing his parents in an accident three years ago. Now sixteen and eager to make it on his own, he hopes to move into a dorm upon entering high school. But by a cruel twist of fate, the dorm burns to the ground! After searching high and low, Yushi finally manages to find an apartment at the too-good-to-be-true price of 25,000 yen per month! Sure enough, there’s one condition: the apartment is haunted! Surrounded by a gaggle of colorful tenants, Yushi’s “normal” high school life begins! Waka Miyama delivers an elegant comic based on the popular novel series by Hinowa Kouzuki.

Notes:
• The main story of the manga ended on August 26, 2021. On December 24, 2021, extra chapters starting being published with the chapter and volume numbering being continued from where the last chapter and volume of the main story were last published.
• Note: Two extra chapters are included.

Tags: Youkai , Shounen , Male Protagonist , School , Food , Magic , Super Power , Coming of Age , Urban Fantasy , Shapeshifting , Exorcism

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Fukigen na Mononokean

Also known as The Morose Mononokean.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Supernatural

Ashiya has spent the first seven days of high school stuck in the infirmary because of a youkai attaching itself to him. He ends up asking the owner of a small tea room called the "Mononokean" for help. This is a tale involving the very morose owner of Mononokean guiding the youkai that happened to wander into this world go to the next world.

Note: Includes 1 extra chapter.

Tags: Male Protagonist , Youkai , Anthropomorphism , School , Demons , Shounen , Iyashikei , Body Horror , Exorcism

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Manga UP!

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Bakemono Yawa-zukushi

Also known as Phantom Tales of the Night.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Mystery , Supernatural

Welcome to the Thundercloud Inn, a curious establishment that opens its doors to the troubled masses, human or otherwise. But to pay for the stay, the equally curious innkeeper takes payment only in the form of one's deepest secrets…Who will come calling today?

Tags: Shoujo , Ghost , Youkai , Urban Fantasy , Shapeshifting , Anthropomorphism , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Ensemble Cast , Body Horror , Mythology , Gender Bending , Inn , Eco-Horror , Cannibalism

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Pixiv Comic

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xxxHolic

Also known as xxxHOLiC.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Mystery , Supernatural

Kimihiro Watanuki is haunted by visions of ghosts and spirits. He seeks help from a mysterious woman named Yuko, who claims she can help. However, Watanuki must work for Yuko in order to pay for her aid. Soon Watanuki finds himself employed in Yuko’s shop where he sees things and meets customers that are stranger than anything he could have ever imagined.

Notes:
The series was re-named to xxxHolic•Rou on chapter title pages of chapter 186 and on, but not on their volume's front covers, spines and indicia.
The chapter count contains a one-shot published in May 2010 to commemorate the switch, which was later collected into Volume 18.
The chapter count also reflects the magazine releases; the chapters plus the one-shot were re-arranged into 109 chapters across 19 volumes.

Tags: Magic , Youkai , Mythology , Ghost , Crossover , Seinen , Clone , Male Protagonist , Curses , Witch , Philosophy , Time Manipulation , Urban Fantasy , Episodic , Denpa , Memory Manipulation , Tragedy , School , Boys' Love , Heterosexual , Yuri

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Inu x Boku SS

Also known as Inu x Boku SS.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

In search of independence and solitude, the sharp-tongued Ririchiyo Shirakiin moves to the Maison de Ayakashi, an apartment building full of wealthy tenants, which has its own Secret Service. Ririchiyo is eager to be alone, but upon her arrival, she is greeted by Soushi, an SS agent arranged for her by her parents. Ririchiyo tries to turn away, but Soushi's dogged devotion to his new mistress will not be deterred. The threats against the residents of the Maison de Ayakashi are not to be taken lightly, after all. And despite his puppylike demeanor, Soushi is not to be trifled with...

Note: Includes 12 extra chapters.

Tags: Reincarnation , Youkai , Tsundere , Yandere , Shounen , Age Gap , Henshin , Heterosexual , Tragedy , Time Skip

Where to read?

Manga UP!

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Natsume Yuujinchou

Also known as Natsume's Book of Friends.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Supernatural

When Reiko was Takashi's age, she bound the names of demons and spirits in her Book of Friends, enslaving them to her capricious whim. Now Takashi is the owner of the book, and the creatures will do anything to get their names back.

Tags: Adoption , Youkai , Iyashikei , Male Protagonist , Rural , Episodic , Shoujo , Outdoor Activities , Primarily Teen Cast , Estranged Family , Rehabilitation , Primarily Male Cast , Found Family , Shapeshifting , Orphan , School , Exorcism , Gender Bending

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Viz

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Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi: Ayakashi Oyado ni Yomeiri Shimasu.

Also known as Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Supernatural

Aoi wants to work off her debt to the Tenjin-ya inn, but she only has one day to find a position and none of the managers are willing to hire a human! If she can just get someone to see past her family background, Aoi is certain she can prove her worth!

Tags: Youkai , Female Protagonist , Inn , Arranged Marriage , Isekai , Monster Boy , Food , Demons , Kemonomimi , Josei , Shapeshifting

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Pixiv Comic ComicWalker

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Wakeari Shinrei Mansion

Also known as Welcome to Ghost Mansion.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Horror , Mystery , Slice of Life , Supernatural

For fans of horror comedy, this story of a freelancer slacker who buys a mansion full of ghosts is sure to terrify and amuse in equal measure! Join Kaoru as she becomes landlord for a house full of specters!

Kaoru Shinonome, who had been living as a freelancer, invests her inheritance in property and buys a vast old condominium. Her dream life as a wealthy landlord is about to begin - but there are no living tenants, only spirits, and her new property is a rollercoaster ride of psychic phenomena. Kaoru embraces her new specter-filled life as the owner of Ghost Mansion and starts recruiting for new non-living residents!

Tags: Surreal Comedy , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban Fantasy , Iyashikei , Ghost , Urban , Found Family , Crossdressing , Male Protagonist

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Kurage Bunch

Pixiv

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Jigokudou Reikai Tsuushin

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Mystery , Supernatural

Tetsushi (a 5th grader delinquent who rules over the students of Jouin elementary), Ryuuchin (Tetsushi's right hand man) and Tsuda (their sometimes-ally), are known to everyone in town as the "three evil prankster kings."

In a creepy pharmacy located out-of-town, the boys meet an old man who bestows a strange and other-worldly power upon them. Soon after, our 3 young pranksters find themselves battling a variety of ghosts and demons...!?

Tags: Seinen

Where to read?

Pixiv Comic

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Mononoke

Also known as Mononoke.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Mystery , Supernatural

The story is about a man who is a medicine seller. He hunts mononoke (demons) and kills them by using a sword. However, before unsheathing his sword he first needs to learn of the form (katachi), the truth behind the human tragedies (makoto) and the reason behind the evils (kotowari) that gave birth to it before killing the demon.

Tags: Seinen , Historical , Male Protagonist , Youkai , Demons , Exorcism , Swordplay , Oiran

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Akaya Akashiya Ayakashino

Also known as Of the Red, the Light, and the Ayakashi.

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Supernatural

In the curious town of Utsuwa, where spirits known as ayakashi roam, lives Yue, a sheltered boy born and raised at the local shrine. On the night of the winter festival, Yue descends the mountain for the first time and encounters two boys. Though Yue wants nothing more than to become friends with his new acquaintances, Mikoto, the master of the shrine who rules over Utsuwa, declares that Yue must choose one of the boys as his 'Meal'! Faced with this incomprehensible decision, what will Yue do?!

Tags: Shoujo , Youkai

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