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We use the whole 1–10 scale and judge each title against the best version of what it is trying to be — a comedy on how funny it is, a thriller on its tension — not against some other genre. As a rough guide: 9+ is all-time great, 8 excellent, 7 a solid recommendation with caveats, 5–6 mixed or average. A 7 is a genuine yes, not a knock. The “Community score” in each review is the crowd rating from AniList, MAL, and MangaUpdates, shown next to ours for comparison.
It never quite decides if Rikuo is a kid playing at being a yokai lord or the real thing, but the demon-of-the-week creativity carries it anyway.
For anyone who wants a monster-of-the-week shonen that actually pays off its slower character beats.
This is the creator of Psyren doing genuinely creepy horror years before Psyren existed, and it's criminally hard to find in English.
Miyuki Tonogaya's workplace rom-com turns 'his emotions trigger snowstorms' into a genuinely sweet metaphor for learning to read someone who won't say how they feel out loud.
Sho Aimoto's yokai-detective manga pairs unsettling folklore horror with a found-family core that keeps the mystery-of-the-week structure from going stale.
Visually stunning premise from the Death Note team that starts strong and loses its grip as the candidate roster expands.
Opens as a goofy body-swap comedy and turns into one of the better-plotted supernatural mysteries in the genre — the tonal range is the whole appeal.
Started as a gag-heavy odd-couple comedy and turned into one of the more inventive rules-based action manga running right now.
Cute-mascot premise, then one of the most devastating short manga in recent years — it moves fast, but every gut-punch is earned.
Started as a scrappy delinquent-detective comedy and turned into one of the best tournament arcs in '90s shonen — the ending rushes, but everything before it earns your patience.
