Phantom Busters, Vol. 2

ファントムバスターズ [Phantom Busters] #2

by Neoshoco

Straight A student Eugene Korekishi doesn’t believe in ghosts…but his classmate Mogari Shishikuno is an exorcist who swallows them whole! Mogari can’t see ghosts on his own, but once he and Eugene meet someone with the sight, there’s only one path left—form an exorcist club at school and embark on a high school life that's anything but normal!

Wanting to start their club activities in earnest, the Phantom Busters plan to post flyers around the school to advertise the exorcism services they provide, but first they have to get the idea past the student council president, who is a stone-cold nonbeliever! Meanwhile, the assassin dispatched from Mount Shishikuno to kill Mogari makes his way to town…

Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Supernatural, Graphic Novels, Shonen, Paranormal, Comics

184 pages, Paperback

First published April 4, 2024

About the author

ネオショコ (Neoshoko).

Reviews

[aamna]

this would make a banger anime adaptation, studio bones do u hear me 😋

[☆]

fhidjnfgjr geto suguru mentionned

[scythe ☆]

maybe in another life, i was meant to be the fifth member of phantom busters 🗣

[Riki (˶˃⤙˂˶)]

5 💫

OMG THIS IS SO GOOD!!!

Tamon's like super cute, and Korekishi out of shower without glasses on induced a violent nose bleed for me.

[˚₊‧✩ ryane ✩‧₊˚]

they got about three braincells and mogari isn't touching a single one -- i love my silly little guys

[sage]

their little found family☹️

[MIEL]

SUGURU GETO MENTIONNED

[Helena Jackson]

Honestly, incredibly disappointed by how this series handles its female characters. Especially given that the author is a woman and it was written very recently. Overall, I don't hate it, because it's pretty silly and charming, but it definitely has a bit of a confused tone at times (it never really nails the serious moments, in my opinion) and again, whatever energy it builds up through its plot and character dynamics gets totally lost by some random sexist/homophobic/transphobic/fatphobic/etc joke. Maybe I just have a really low tolerance level for that kind of thing, but I would be remiss to not mention it because it's the biggest hamper to my enjoyment of this series. It's not the worst manga I've ever read, though. Not by a long shot. Here's to hoping it cuts back on the -phobic BS moving forward…?

[Melody]

The JJK reference had me rolling

[Jess | jadecanread]

They're all sharing one brain cell and I love it.

Recap: helping the club president exorcise some demons vandalizing the school. The prez is actually a huge fan of them but holds a cool and collected demeanor. Helping a guy who got possessed and K's mom finds out that he's in a Phantom Busters club so she says he needs to transfer out. Girl from K's middle school wants him to join student counsel, meat eating contest, ending chapter with a person from the clan checking and attempting to assassinate Mogari.

[anye]

fueron tan homosexuales en este tomo. mogari y koreshiki se aman TANTO

me gusta mucho el detalle de q tamon siempre se esté tapando la cara cuando llega alguien nuevo mi bebote. ren es un bobo y de paso es lindo me alegra q se haya redimido

jjk nunca me va a dejar en paz por lo visto. es más no me la mencionen ayer compré unos sobres y fue la mayor mierda posible

igual de bueno q el primero de verdad los amo demasiado

[Giyongchy]

ความสัมพันธ์ของกลุ่มปราบผีมันน่ารัก​ และ​มีตัวละครใหม่ๆ​ มากขึ้น​ เคสปราบผีก็สนุกดีแต่ผีเรื่องนี้ไม่มีความน่ากลัวอ่ะ​ ออกแนวขำ
เล่มนี้ชอบตัวละครประธานสภานร.​ โครตกาว

[noah🦇 ݁ ˖ִ ࣪]

i have never so desperately wanted to be part of a friendgroup before

[Cassandra]

Way back in my youth I loved a weirdo anime called haunted junction. I don’t remember much but there were ghost at a high school and the high schools tried to keep them under control. This manga kind of reminds me of that. I will say I am mostly upset by the “guy” stuff that happens in this volume. One there is a girl who had a glow up and then discusses her undergarments and she is smooshed into the boobs of another school girl. It just felt so out dated and chikan for what we have gotten. I am disappointed. I almost rated this 3 stars cause of that but I like the new guy from his family that showed up.

[Alice]

IT JUST KEPT GETTING BETTER

[achilles]

i love these little guys so much!!! neoshoco you have all my heart with your series and funky little guys 🤭😭

[ivy]

These boys are so endearing

[mia]

silliest friends ever! they don’t play about each other

[Lina]

SUGURU GETO MENTIONED

[MunWolfieSNM]

Son super divertidos y Zaki sigue siendo mi fav, aunque en este Eugene me ha parecido adorable.

ahhh que rabia que aún no haya más en español

[mara]

slayyyyyy mis niñes suguru geto mention lo hicieron por mí literal

[Sofie]

4.5 (first fan translation reading on 4/9/25)

[shay :3]

i love ren

[✮ tina ✮]

Suguru Geto mention

[Kelli]

This series captures everything that makes shonen manga so great! Some of my fave things from this volume in no particular order:

•”Dark Gathering” mention
•Eugene with his HAIR DOWN????? Sir, you are SO FINE????
•Mogari being a nepo baby
•the student council president who is secretly so kawaii
•Kanzaki being a major weeb all over Tokyo
•Miss Rin-Rin 😍
•Ren being mistaken as a Geto cosplayer
•Ren not knowing what “Jujutsu Kaisen” is
•”carousel of stupidity”

This series is SO GOOD! Please read it~

[kaavi ★]

i'm jealous as hell - i wish i was a teenage boy wandering around, talking to spirits and involving myself in random shenanigans with my equally close friendgroupppp 😒😔😩

had to nerf me by making me a med student....fairs 👌

anyway, props asl for this being early volumes of a manga and the artsyle looking this good!! like every character is so well drawn, i love the design and anatomy is done so well 🥺 the girls are SOOO pretty in this as well

i'm hoping maybe a female character who is a bit more prominent and part of the main squad (not someone who will come in and out every once in a while like i'm assuming the Y1 student council girl from the pin-back hair kids past is)

yo, bear with me in reviews as i slowly learn these guys' names

and that female character hopefully is NOT a love interest. that'd be SO COOL
but no biggie if that doesn't happen

BRO I LOVE THE CAST AND THE CHARACTER DESIGNS FOR EVERYONE
the student council were introduced in this one and i love the president hahaha what the hell is his deal 😭 nOBODY told him he had to roleplay a nonchalant baddie bro. it's that spongebob image with the handcuffs; HE put himself in that situation 😭

the other two guys, idrk - they are promising but i haven't seen that much of them yet so we'll see what their character is like.

i adore the dark-haired girl on the student council and i don't mind the one that hates men but is nice to the first girl i was talking about. we'll js need to see more of them i guess!!

OMG and they introduced ren who tryna kill our tonguey monster eater boy idfk what his name is
HE'S SO COOL

bro, as i said, peak characters introduced in this one i'm SOO excited

i really like this series but i js realised a ch a month...4 chs a volume...4 months for a new volume 🥺 and its got to be translated too...jokes thats like 3 books a year if we're lucky that's SO good yay. lowk might have to start collecting this manga...who knows... but i HAVE to do my lovely, goated, glorious blue lock first <3

ok my chapter summaries!! (i'm doing this in case I take a break and need to remember what happened in the prev vol xx)

spoilers obvs bcs it's a recap!

Chapter 5: Let's Go on a Night Mission! - this is when they broke into the school at night-time (MAJOR FOMO WITH THESE SHENANIGANS OMLLL) bcs the student council president asked them to investigate whose bumass was breaking all the windows. spoilers: twas a ghost

literally the ghosts were so intimidating for NO reason bcs that tongue mf chomped them down in like 3 panels. i'm crying, is nothing a challenge for him?

this was the intro of the student council guys. they were mad asl for no reason bcs the year 1s wanted to print out some cringe ass flyers 😭 who cares seniors, y'all supposed to graduate go STUDY for your FUTURE

^^ anyway, the club room they been occupying was lowk illegally done in school terms and they did NOT believe in the ghost agenda the y1s were doing and that's how they got them to investigate the window thing. they said they'd shut the whole thing down 😭 was also CRAZY how they were like "yeah if the windows keep breaking imma blame y'alls and also you gonna have to pay for it" when the pres LIT SAW THE WINDOWS BREAKING THEMSELVES- HUH????? ref do SOMETHING

Chapter 6: A Good-for-Nothing Guy! - this is when a ghost literally went inside (not possessed??) a guy to turn him into like a old-school 90s japanese delinquent (like shoot's design from hxh ykyk). tongue boy had to do some tongue action inside that guys' mouth to get the ghost out.... i mean,,,, okay??

i js thought the gf from this chapter was SUPER pretty. i LOVED her design

Chapter 7: Let's Eat Some Meat! - the cute dark haired y1 student council girl gets introduced here (god i have GOT to start learning names..) and she does a meat eating competition (yeah...) against the tongue demon so that pin-back hair guy joins the student council.

bro also, GINGER'S HAIR LOOKS SO MUCH BETTER NOT PUSHED BACK??? why is bro nerfing himself 💔 ginger's mum (i think??) also tryna beat the PB's ass bcs they a bad influence on her scientific son 😭 OOH. wait i can lowk put my two cents in here all i could wish for is that we get a bit more character focus! like the story is SO good and ik we are setting things up with it being vol 2 and all with only 7 chapters so far. but!! would it not be good to understand the characters a little more?

it may be intentional, but i'd love to know more about why glasses was so "science focused" and then suddenly cares about spirits and all when he was SO headstrong about not believing in it. why does he want to be in PB's so bad? is it the friendships? did he not have friends before? what exactly was his life before? HOPE TO SEE IT SOON x
back to the summaryyy

Chapter 8: Let's Climb That Tower! - this is where ren gets introduced (see i can remember the 3 letter names!) he's part of tongue's clan but a part of one of the branch family and ren's father sends him down to kamakura to kill our boy 🙏 BTW HIS ASS COULD HAVE WELL AND TRULY BEEN CLAPPED BY REN THIS CHAPTER IF HE WAS A LITTLE BIT MORE EMOTIONLESS AND UNYIELDING.

i rlly like his character and design and hOooOOOpe to see more of him 🥹 he's a fave so far and the ch ends with him moving next door to ...shishikuna??? i think his name is?? (anyway, the one with the tattoo on his tongue is who i mean). and he doesn't know if he's going to kill him or not but at least he'll get to be sightseeing!!

i'm sooo excited for this series aww

[Sophia Paul]

mogari is my son and i WILL protect him omg. i love how hes highkey important but also just DOESNT GIVE A FUCKKKKK. all of them are amazing. love the yandre student prez we are getting and the baddie girls and ... Once Again. ZAKI. BEING THE FUCKING NERD HE IS. ofc hes a geto glazer like that just Checks Out. I cant wait to see more of this world and these characters because i am IN LOVE

[Sunread26]

Chronique complète :
https://sunread26.wordpress.com/2025/...

Extrait :
Publication assez rapide pour l’instant avec cette série, un tome tous les deux mois environs. Si bien que d’ici le début de l’année prochaine, on devrait avoir rattrapé la parution japonaise. Peut-être qu’après, la parution ralentira un peu, vu qu’au Japon, un tome sort tous les 4 mois environ. L’intrigue me semble avancer un peu vite, mais je pense que ce n’est que partie remise et non le signe que la série sera courte… même si je ne la vois pas durer trop non plus (je vois une quinzaine de tomes grand maximum personnellement). Mais on verra bien…

Maintenant que le club des Phantom Busters est officiellement créé et qu’ils ont également trouvé une salle à disposition, le groupe est bien content. Mais il ne faut pas lambiner pour autant, puisque Mogari a passé un pacte avec sa famille et qu’il doit chasser des fantômes pour rester au lycée. Ce qu’il y a, c’est qu’on apprend le nombre qu’il doit chasser et dévorer, en une année… Ce nombre semble assez important, surtout quand on voit la quantité qu’il a ingérée jusqu’à présent et qu’il ne semble pas faire de rapport à sa famille. Crétin fini qu’il est, il a même totalement oublié ce nombre jusqu’à qu’on lui rappelle. C’est supposé être un nombre impossible à atteindre pour lui, mais sa famille n’a sans doute pas pris en compte qu’il serait accompagné par quelqu’un voyant les morts et un autre qui entend leurs voix. En soit, cette alliance devrait grandement l’aider, même si l’objectif reste compliqué à atteindre, le bougre souhaitant aussi en profiter. J’aimerais dire que son côté idiot semble dû au fait que ses proches ne vont pas à l’école, mais je ne pense pas que ce soit son cas. Il a vraiment le caractère de quelqu’un n’appréciant pas les études ou prenant tout à la légère. Il montrera quand même une certaine débrouillardise et intelligence dans certains moments, mais l’école, ce n’est clairement pas son truc. Ce que je trouve dommage c’est qu’il semblerait qu’il en soit de même pour les autres, ce que je trouve triste. Qu’Eugene soit le plus intelligent, pourquoi pas, mais l’auteur n’était pas obligé de transformer tous les autres en idiots. J’ai l’impression que c’est pour contrebalancer le fait qu’il n’a aucune compétence spirituelle, mais je trouve que c’est mal dosé.

La scène avec celui qui se fait posséder par des racailles des années 80 est épique ! J’imagine déjà que la série va avoir une adaptation animée et cette scène sera magique avec du doublage. Mogari en prend pour son grade, mais il n’est pas le seul, après, ils n’avaient pas vraiment le choix pour l’exorciser. Heureusement, cette scène a eu lieu entre deux garçons, bonjour la polémique sinon, même si ça reste limite quand même. La scène est présenté autant avec humour que dégoût, pour montrer que ce n’est pas normal malgré tout. L’amitié est également un thème important de ce tome, que ce soit avec l’anniversaire de Mogari ou bien la situation d’Eugene qui semble lui échapper. Un premier personnage féminin important fait son apparition est visiblement elle aime Eugene et n’apprécie pas qu’il gâche son temps avec les autres… Les femmes passent vraiment pour des contrôleuses et forceuses dans cette série, j’espère que ça changera… À part la grand-mère, elles laissent une assez mauvaises images, sans parler de la fantôme psychopathe du tome précédent… Je veux bien que l’on est des personnages très caricaturaux, mais de là à rabaisser autant l’un des deux genres c’est non. Les garçons, mêmes s’ils passent pour des idiots, ils restent sympas, les filles… elles donnent plus envies de fuir en fait.

[...]

[Ayan1909]

My pookies are back !!

The phantom busters are finally four. Now they’re looking for a room where they can carry out their secret activities. However, to get one, the small group must obtain the approval of Sorato, the president of the student union. Despite his skepticism, he still decides to trust the phantom Busters with a mission : if the boys manage to find the one behind the school’s broken window, he’ll let them promote their association.

Like in the first volume, Phantom Busters is a very light and enjoyable series, the story is slowly developing, the broken humor is still there and more characters are joining the adventure. I’m really surprise with how much I loved getting to know better the four friends and discovering the new characters like Sorato Ichimiya, the school student president or Ren Shishikuno, who work for Shishikuno clan.

In only two volumes the author got me completely hooked, the main story is so addictive and I can’t wait to read the third volume when it comes out.

Am I the only one to think that this manga would look so cool as an anime ?

[Valérie Harvey]

Deuxième tome excellent, toujours très drôle. Chaque chapitre de ce tome 2 aborde une courte histoire, on est encore la découverte des personnages et de leur univers. En fait, ça m'a redonné le goût de revoir les films Ghostbusters. Il y a exactement ce mélange de personnages caricaturaux, le plus souvent dans la comédie absolue, mais qui font face à des risques et des fantômes réels. Ce qui ramène de l'avant les enjeux plus personnels de chacun des personnages (tous masculins, comme dans les films originaux, finalement!)

Une série qui peut être conseillée aux jeunes fans de manga: rien n'est gore ou explicite, malgré le thème des fantômes, on est dans le sombre léger. En fait, ceux qui font le plus peur viennent de la famille du personnage principal: son grand-père est vraiment détestable!