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Yokai Girls #1
妖怪少女―モンスガ― 1 (ヤングジャンプコミックスDIGITAL)
秋葉原発！ 新感覚妖怪バトルラブコメ!! 秋葉原の雑貨屋で働くフリーター・八喜の前に現れた美少女・轆花。めっちゃ可愛い彼女とひょんなことから急接近♪…のはずが、轆花にはとんでもない秘密があり!?
230 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 18, 2014
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May 27, 2018
100% fan service. There's no reason to read this unless your life has a desperate lack of topless, upskirt and panty shots of what appear to be underage girls.
August 20, 2023
Ecchi manga be ecchi
Before anything else I believe it is important to point out that this manga is rated Mature and is not intended for younger readers Although there is no actual sex within this volume there are more than enough fan service to boggle the eyes even as a story manages to manifest along a variety of girls and our protagonist who has the typical bad luck and pain endurance to help the girls when he can. In fact the most graphic scenes of the volume are when an unconscious Rokka has her mouth upon Yatsuki's erection through his pants when they fell and Moru's fantasy about what her sister and Yatsuki were doing after things went wrong as usual for him.
All in all between the weird but interesting characters, the obvious sincerity for Yatsuki now that he knows yokai are real, and some of the dialogue which is amusing to me, I found regardless of the panty shots, random bondage jokes, and nudity (nipples are shown but nothing crotch is shown uncovered) that this series (at least at this point) seems to have something extra that will prevent it from being just an eye candy cash dump pretending to be good when all it has for itself is an exhausting amount of borderline hentai material.
Before anything else I believe it is important to point out that this manga is rated Mature and is not intended for younger readers Although there is no actual sex within this volume there are more than enough fan service to boggle the eyes even as a story manages to manifest along a variety of girls and our protagonist who has the typical bad luck and pain endurance to help the girls when he can. In fact the most graphic scenes of the volume are when an unconscious Rokka has her mouth upon Yatsuki's erection through his pants when they fell and Moru's fantasy about what her sister and Yatsuki were doing after things went wrong as usual for him.
All in all between the weird but interesting characters, the obvious sincerity for Yatsuki now that he knows yokai are real, and some of the dialogue which is amusing to me, I found regardless of the panty shots, random bondage jokes, and nudity (nipples are shown but nothing crotch is shown uncovered) that this series (at least at this point) seems to have something extra that will prevent it from being just an eye candy cash dump pretending to be good when all it has for itself is an exhausting amount of borderline hentai material.
February 26, 2018
This was a great start to the series. I can’t wait to read the next volumes.
June 20, 2020
Off to a fairly good start, however a wee bit confusing.
There are way, way too many new characters introduced in the 1st volume. Especially being yokai, as it's rather difficult to learn & remember so many new words, even more so with the kanji. Even more so here, as they all have multiple names & come from different locales or prefectures, so that just adds to the confusion. So, don't get caught up in all the names. Just focus on the characters, all of which are fairly easy to recognize. Art, very good. Dialogue, decent, a bit off at times. Characters, fairly good, some better than others. Believability isn't in play here, however there are some likeable characters & decidedly not likeable. I'm interested in seeing where this goes. Not thrilled about the gratuitous nudity & sexual innuendos, but meh, whatever.
There are way, way too many new characters introduced in the 1st volume. Especially being yokai, as it's rather difficult to learn & remember so many new words, even more so with the kanji. Even more so here, as they all have multiple names & come from different locales or prefectures, so that just adds to the confusion. So, don't get caught up in all the names. Just focus on the characters, all of which are fairly easy to recognize. Art, very good. Dialogue, decent, a bit off at times. Characters, fairly good, some better than others. Believability isn't in play here, however there are some likeable characters & decidedly not likeable. I'm interested in seeing where this goes. Not thrilled about the gratuitous nudity & sexual innuendos, but meh, whatever.
March 31, 2025
I like the idea of hunting ghosts/yokai, but this is basically just hentai. There is constant perversion at play here and the author is lowkey a criminal in real life.
In the very first volume, the MC trips and falls into vagina three separate times. Frequent upskirt shots. A kappa plushie cuts people's clothes off. No bra view from the top of a weirdly loose shirt. The MC is stuck in a locker with a woman wearing almost nothing. It's just all nudity or lascivious scenarios. The MC's 16 year old sister has her soul separated from her body and strips booty butt nekkid for his attention. Lock Kazuki Funatsu up.
The only thing that actually happens in this first volume is that the MC befriends a yokai and defeats another. The friendly one eats fragments of his soul and the other wants him to "taste the sweetness of his ass." I am not joking.
In the very first volume, the MC trips and falls into vagina three separate times. Frequent upskirt shots. A kappa plushie cuts people's clothes off. No bra view from the top of a weirdly loose shirt. The MC is stuck in a locker with a woman wearing almost nothing. It's just all nudity or lascivious scenarios. The MC's 16 year old sister has her soul separated from her body and strips booty butt nekkid for his attention. Lock Kazuki Funatsu up.
The only thing that actually happens in this first volume is that the MC befriends a yokai and defeats another. The friendly one eats fragments of his soul and the other wants him to "taste the sweetness of his ass." I am not joking.
April 22, 2020
Troppo fan service... Alla fine stanca. E la storia dell'uomo caco è assurda.
Per carità, la storia di per sé non sarebbe male: il fratellone che vuole aiutare la sorellina. Ma è presentata per un pubblico di adolescenti arrapati. Anche il personaggio principale mi sta simpatico.
Ho recuperato i primi sette volumi, vediamo come procede.
I disegni non sono male, anzi... E la copertina rosa è stata il motivo per cui l'ho comprato.
Per carità, la storia di per sé non sarebbe male: il fratellone che vuole aiutare la sorellina. Ma è presentata per un pubblico di adolescenti arrapati. Anche il personaggio principale mi sta simpatico.
Ho recuperato i primi sette volumi, vediamo come procede.
I disegni non sono male, anzi... E la copertina rosa è stata il motivo per cui l'ho comprato.
October 30, 2020
2020 Read #676
I feel like this is one of those instances where someone is putting their talents to nefarious use: the art is good, the mythos surrounding the supernatural foundation of this series is competent, and there are nice character dynamics to be had. But everything is bogged down with the exploitation of female anatomy as well as just displays of outright perversion. Definitely not for me!
I feel like this is one of those instances where someone is putting their talents to nefarious use: the art is good, the mythos surrounding the supernatural foundation of this series is competent, and there are nice character dynamics to be had. But everything is bogged down with the exploitation of female anatomy as well as just displays of outright perversion. Definitely not for me!
February 4, 2020
The idea and storyline of the series was interesting but the execution became confusing towards the end of the volume. Also, usually fan service isn’t a problem for me but this volume’s fan service seemed over exaggerated & even a bit forced at times.
This is my first Ghost Ship manga so the next one I’ll eventually read, I’ll be more cautious towards.
This is my first Ghost Ship manga so the next one I’ll eventually read, I’ll be more cautious towards.
December 29, 2022
Catorce libros de Chicas Yokai o Monstruo, Maids, fantasmas y diosas en Akihabara.
Peleas alucinantes entre ellas y una organización que las esta cazando.
Mi queja es que todas las veo muy parecidas. En las peleas no se quien pega y corre.
Que mas se puede pedir? Ah si, Echii y fanservice al por mayor.
Peleas alucinantes entre ellas y una organización que las esta cazando.
Mi queja es que todas las veo muy parecidas. En las peleas no se quien pega y corre.
Que mas se puede pedir? Ah si, Echii y fanservice al por mayor.
August 22, 2023
***This is very much for mature audiences only***
Well, this was... How should I put it, an interesting read.
I think the story itself is a pretty interesting read. Reminds me a little of Bleach with the spirit story line. However, the excessive fan service/ borderline hentai is a bit over the top.
Fan service a side I'm gonna continue and see how this series evolves.
Well, this was... How should I put it, an interesting read.
I think the story itself is a pretty interesting read. Reminds me a little of Bleach with the spirit story line. However, the excessive fan service/ borderline hentai is a bit over the top.
Fan service a side I'm gonna continue and see how this series evolves.
August 29, 2018
There are an unknown (to me) number of volumes to this series; I read the first two. The story is cute in places, but weak and hard to follow. The raison d etre of the series appears to be fan service and even that is weak (primarily panty peeks). Two stars is generous.
July 11, 2018
There is a LOT of fan service in this manga, but if you look beyond that, there is actually a solid story here. A boy who can go out and see Yokai and his interactions with them.
August 6, 2018
Got this on ILL, knowing nothing about it except the title. Turns out to be a manga about contemporary day yokai. Good yokai content, but way more fan service than I was expecting. Not for kids.
May 5, 2020
Rushed this but i liked it, giggled a few times. I'm now disensitized by fan service that i don't find it disgusting at this point.
December 13, 2019
A bit interesting that this seems to be one of the few ecchi harem comedy manga to focus on female genitals more so than just tits and ass. In the first chapter, Rokka falls from a tree onto Yatsuki's face, such that the initial shot we see of the fall is seemingly "merely" a pantyshot, and thus a focus on her ass. And then Yatsuki is pinned to the floor with his nose wedged rather deeply into what folds we can infer from Rokka's labia through her panties, and there is a mention of a curious smell virginal Yatsuki has never before experienced, and he is later seen masturbating at home to the thought of smelling Rokka again (I don't have the book beside me as I type, but I believe there was some kind of "No, don't smell me there!" in the panel of Yatsuki's fantasy). Beyond the olfactory element, there are a few more pantyshots later in the volume in which we can see sharp, angular folds of cloth, as if perhaps the material of the characters' panties has been caught slightly within the vulva, rather than author Kazuki Funatsu going full "cameltoe" with his art, as might otherwise be seen in the common ecchi harem. I think, for example, To Love-Ru's Kentaro Yabuki seeks either unrealistically smooth cameltoes, or otherwise shows hints of uncensored labia reflected in e.g. water droplets.
Is this important to the enjoyment of this manga? Not really. Just something odd I noticed, about which I thought it might be hilarious (to me) to write here.
Anyway, the manga is otherwise just a more "adult" version of Weekly Shounen Jump's Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs, which I suppose is fitting since both are published by Seven Seas's "Ghost Ship" line, which is pretty much just ecchi harem stuff (these two, plus aforementioned To Love-Ru, its raunchier sequel TLR Darkness, and World's End Harem). I don't know all the details, but the original TLR and Yuuna are both given an "Older Teen" rating in contrast to the "Mature" rating of Yokai Girls and the other two, and I know for a fact the "OT" manga are Weekly Shounen Jump and that TLR Darkness was published in a seinen magazine, so I am inferring that Yokai Girls is likewise seinen (it lacks a Wikipedia page to make my job easier), which I guess accounts for the increase in lewdness. Beyond this most simple expression of "genre," the manga follows conventions of the supernatural by giving the protagonist an ability to see ghosts, in which he believes, as well as yokai, in which he initially does not believe (for whatever reason), but he soon realizes due to meeting Rokka the rokurokubi. Harem hijinks ensue for a couple chapters before Yatsuki has to start kinda-sorta fighting a few enemy yokai, and it just feels like we're forcing action scenes with an inexperienced protagonist (contrast the exorcist lead from Yuuna) for little actual reason.
So the title is a bit misleading. I think the original Japanese title is something like "Monster Girl," which makes sense because the first volume focuses largely on just Rokka, as a singular monster girl. I would imagine Seven Seas altered the title to avoid clashing with Monster Musume and other monster girl harem manga, while also calling to attention the fact that the girls here are specifically Japanese yokai rather than Western fantasy monsters. But then it's weird because you only get another yokai girl near the very end of the volume, who does not immediately seem designated as a harem member, and otherwise you have Yatsuki's sister who is simply a ghost rather than a yokai. My point, then is that the plural of the title is a bit of a stretch, but I also say this as someone who has only read Volume 1, so maybe the amount of yokai girls does increase later on.
Bonus points for artistic license with the yokai here. Rokka the rokurokubi kinda passes as a semi-generic manga girl, with minor significance paid to her otaku interests, which are hardly mentioned in-text, but seem to exist in periphery for no reason other than to attract readers who see themselves in Yatsuki. Her elongating neck thus stands out a bit when we do see it, which is okay, I guess. The nurikabe girl is more interesting for being simply a little girl, when nurikabe are either weird dog-things (as in some ukiyo-e depictions) or straight up walking walls (as in Gegege no Kitarou or Okami). It's somewhat interesting to see this little girl use her wall powers because of how she doesn't otherwise look how we might expect. And turning the kakiotoko into a gimp because of the sodomy concept is pretty novel for a joke (though I can't actually find anything about kakiotoko online), as is using a kappa doll for the doll god rather than merely having a human doll or otherwise using a kappa story.
Is this important to the enjoyment of this manga? Not really. Just something odd I noticed, about which I thought it might be hilarious (to me) to write here.
Anyway, the manga is otherwise just a more "adult" version of Weekly Shounen Jump's Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs, which I suppose is fitting since both are published by Seven Seas's "Ghost Ship" line, which is pretty much just ecchi harem stuff (these two, plus aforementioned To Love-Ru, its raunchier sequel TLR Darkness, and World's End Harem). I don't know all the details, but the original TLR and Yuuna are both given an "Older Teen" rating in contrast to the "Mature" rating of Yokai Girls and the other two, and I know for a fact the "OT" manga are Weekly Shounen Jump and that TLR Darkness was published in a seinen magazine, so I am inferring that Yokai Girls is likewise seinen (it lacks a Wikipedia page to make my job easier), which I guess accounts for the increase in lewdness. Beyond this most simple expression of "genre," the manga follows conventions of the supernatural by giving the protagonist an ability to see ghosts, in which he believes, as well as yokai, in which he initially does not believe (for whatever reason), but he soon realizes due to meeting Rokka the rokurokubi. Harem hijinks ensue for a couple chapters before Yatsuki has to start kinda-sorta fighting a few enemy yokai, and it just feels like we're forcing action scenes with an inexperienced protagonist (contrast the exorcist lead from Yuuna) for little actual reason.
So the title is a bit misleading. I think the original Japanese title is something like "Monster Girl," which makes sense because the first volume focuses largely on just Rokka, as a singular monster girl. I would imagine Seven Seas altered the title to avoid clashing with Monster Musume and other monster girl harem manga, while also calling to attention the fact that the girls here are specifically Japanese yokai rather than Western fantasy monsters. But then it's weird because you only get another yokai girl near the very end of the volume, who does not immediately seem designated as a harem member, and otherwise you have Yatsuki's sister who is simply a ghost rather than a yokai. My point, then is that the plural of the title is a bit of a stretch, but I also say this as someone who has only read Volume 1, so maybe the amount of yokai girls does increase later on.
Bonus points for artistic license with the yokai here. Rokka the rokurokubi kinda passes as a semi-generic manga girl, with minor significance paid to her otaku interests, which are hardly mentioned in-text, but seem to exist in periphery for no reason other than to attract readers who see themselves in Yatsuki. Her elongating neck thus stands out a bit when we do see it, which is okay, I guess. The nurikabe girl is more interesting for being simply a little girl, when nurikabe are either weird dog-things (as in some ukiyo-e depictions) or straight up walking walls (as in Gegege no Kitarou or Okami). It's somewhat interesting to see this little girl use her wall powers because of how she doesn't otherwise look how we might expect. And turning the kakiotoko into a gimp because of the sodomy concept is pretty novel for a joke (though I can't actually find anything about kakiotoko online), as is using a kappa doll for the doll god rather than merely having a human doll or otherwise using a kappa story.
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Want to Read
August 9, 2020It's basically Yokai Watch for adults. Tons of fan service, and it gets a bit cringy a couple times, but I found it enjoyable and comedic. I'll check out the second one and see if it's worth continuing.
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