{"id":2066,"date":"2026-10-07T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmanga.kodansha.com\/blog\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2026-10-06T17:29:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:29:27","slug":"vampires-witches-and-monsters-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmanga.kodansha.com\/blog\/article\/vampires-witches-and-monsters-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Vampires, Witches, and Monsters, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Halloween is just around the corner, and what better way to get in the festive spirit than some manga titles featuring some of our more supernatural characters! We’ve picked a few and put them into 3 categories for your consideration: Vampires, Witches, and Monsters. What’s your favorite?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vampires<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Honey-blood Beauty & Her Vampire<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kagari Tojyo is smart and beautiful\u2026but what really draws a crowd is her rare \u201choney blood\u201d\u2014a crowd of vampires, that is! Enter Ryotaro, her bodyguard and a vampire himself\u2026with quite the perverted, sadistic streak! What’s Kagari got to do to have a \u201cnormal\u201d life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vampire Dormitory<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI’ll do it! I’ll become your thrall!\u201d A crossdressing girl and an obsessive vampire find themselves entangled in a dangerous relationship. A heart-pounding BL-esque romance drama from the award-winning Ema Toyama (Missions of Love, Aoba-kun’s Confessions)!par par Mito, who has no family to rely on, lives on the streets, disguised as a boy. Ruka, a vampire, saves her from a perilous situation and makes her an offer: become his subservient thrall from which he can feed whenever he wants, and she can live with him\u2014in the boys’ dorm. Because her very existence depends on her secret not being found out, every day is a new danger\u2014to say nothing of that vampire! Meanwhile, Ruka, not knowing Mito’s a girl, dotes on her night and day in an attempt to ripen her \u201cdisgusting male blood,\u201d but when real feelings develop \u2026 this dangerous romance between a crossdressing girl and an obsessive vampire begins!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hiragi-san’s House of Vampires<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Every family has its own \u201csecrets\u201d\u2026 Meet our protagonist, Shota Minamoto, a junior-high student who also happens to be an orphan in a children\u2019s home. One day, he was adopted by a family living in a luxurious, Japanese-style estate. Welcomed warmly by them all, Shota started letting his guard down, but this family had a \u201csecret\u201d that the world could never know. A new work from the creator of \u201cThe Cuckoo\u2019s Fiance\u201d showcasing a different kind of \u201cfamily.\u201d Thus begins a cozy, bloody love comedy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Witches<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Witch and the Mercenary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zig\u2014a tall, broad-shouldered mercenary\u2014participates in a witch hunt. Following a fierce duel with the deadly witch, he becomes privy to her desire. \u201cI want you to protect me,\u201d she requests, tired of having her life trivialized. Seeking a place to survive, the witch and the mercenary set their sights on an unknown continent!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Witch and the Beast<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dive into Kousuke Satake\u2019s suave and explosive manga debut, about powerful women and good and evil, featuring a story of vengeance in a stylish, art-deco urban wonderland that\u2019s one part Fullmetal Alchemist and one part Cowboy Bebop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Classroom of a Black Cat and a Witch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From Yousuke Kaneda, author of \u201cBoarding School Juliet,\u201d comes a new title! Spica Virgo is an apprentice witch, but can\u2019t use any magic. She needs someone to be her master in order to get into the academy of her dreams, but she has no money and no connections. Suddenly, a mysterious talking black cat that can use magic appears before her!! Spica wants to learn magic, and the black cat wants his curse broken\u2014goals on the same path. Therefore, a secret master-apprentice relationship was born! But the key to breaking the curse is kissing his\u2026?! A clumsy witch and the teachings of a black cat\u2014the magic academy fantasy starts here!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monsters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kagari Monster Family<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unemployed and desperate, Ito Toma stakes her life on a housekeeping job at a mansion in the middle of nowhere. But she’s surprised to discover that it’s actually for the Kagari family, eight siblings who run a counseling office for monsters who disguise themselves as human! Now, she works at the so-called “Monster Center” to help the humanity-challenged with their problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hella Chill Monsters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not everyone wishes for a peaceful afterlife\u2026 least of all Bonzo Scalobania, whose dearest wish is to find a case for a skeleton detective like him to solve! Along with his unreliable assistant, Vampy Vinegret, and zombie frenemy\/bounty hunter Nero Lichman, Bonzo swears to solve the problems of Limbo City! But does it still count if the problems he’s solving are ones of his and his friends’ own making?? A wacky, weird, heartwarming tale for the undead in us all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interviews With Monster Girls<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Call them \u201cdemis\u201d! \u2026 Vampires, dullahans, succubi, snow women. These are just a few of those beings once known as \u201cdemi-humans,\u201d and high school Biology teacher Testsuo Takahashi has always wanted to meet them. He gets his chance when the new term starts, and there are four \u201cdemis\u201d in his school! Join the caring, bumbling Tetsuo in his quest to get to know these adorable monster girls, while helping them navigate the highs and lows of high school!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Halloween is just around the corner, and what better way to get in the festive spirit than some manga titles featuring some of our more supernatural characters! We’ve picked a few and put them into 3 categories for your consideration: Vampires, Witches, and Monsters. What’s your favorite? Vampires The Honey-blood Beauty & Her Vampire Kagari […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[459,45],"kmanga_work_term":[455,446,439,105,443,450,448,132,445],"kmanga_creator_term":[134,216,449,447,135,440,456,451,444,109],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-halloween","tag-k-manga"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t