James Nicoll Reviews

2023’s The Ayakashi Hunter’s Tainted Bride Volume One is the first tankōbon for Midori Yūma and Mamenosuke Fujimaru’s The Ayakashi Hunter’s Tainted Bride fantasy manga series. The Sarah Kellis English translation came out in 2025.

Fourteen-year-old Nanao is beautiful, hails from a powerful clan, and is engaged to the handsome and charming Reito. When she misplaces the hairpin Reito gave her, Nanao is distraught. Happily, with the help of her conniving, jealous cousin Akemi, Nanao finds it again… out in the open, just beyond the household’s mystical protections.

Still, how risky could it possibly be to step beyond the barrier, pick up the hairpin and return?

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2016’s Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits, Vol. 1 (Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi) collects the first five issues of Waco¹ Ioka’s manga adaptation of Midori Yūma’s light fantasy series of novels. 

Aoi Tsubaki’s grandfather Shiro had a bad reputation. But to Aoi he was the man who rescued her from childhood misery after her mother abandoned her. Still, she must admit to herself that the reason his funeral was well attended may have been that many people wanted to assure themselves that their exploiter was actually dead. 

Though she is not yet aware of this, Aoi was one of Shiro’s victims.

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