Yokai Night Parade 百鬼夜行

Yokai Manga for Younger Readers

Rated all ages or teen by their English publishers

6 titles

Two of these are published for all ages and four for teens, by the ratings their English publishers print on the cover. The quick facts on each page say what the rating covers: a cat killed by a truck and played for laughs, a volume that turns darker than the rest, dead children, battle deaths. The titles rated for older teens and adults, Inuyasha, Dandadan and Mononoke, are not here.

  1. Yo-kai Watch 妖怪ウォッチ

    Uses the names, reinvents the rest Konishi Noriyuki · 2012–2023

    The children's gag manga of the game franchise: a boy, a ghost butler and a cat hit by a truck, with a few old names among hundreds of new ones.

    Yokai that appear: Kitsune, Noppera-bō, Satori, Oni

  2. GeGeGe no Kitarō ゲゲゲの鬼太郎

    Keeps the traditional forms, invents the stories Mizuki Shigeru · 1965–1969, with later runs to the 1990s

    The manga that gave Japan's yokai their modern faces: a one-eyed boy and his friends against the monsters of the picture scrolls.

    Yokai that appear: Nurarihyon, Nurikabe, Konaki-jiji, Ittan-momen, Bakeneko, Bake-danuki, Noppera-bō, Makura-gaeshi, Ushi-oni, Mokumokuren, Kasha, Tengu, Kitsune, Daidarabotchi, Akaname, Iso-onna, Keukegen, Ōkubi, Mikoshi-nyūdō, Karakasa-kozō, Tofu-kozō

  3. Natsume's Book of Friends 夏目友人帳

    Keeps the traditional forms, invents the stories Midorikawa Yuki · 2003–

    A boy who sees spirits inherits his grandmother's ledger of their names and gives them back, one yokai at a time.

    Yokai that appear: Kappa, Kitsune

  4. Kamisama Kiss 神様はじめました

    Uses the names, reinvents the rest Suzuki Julietta · 2008–2016

    A schoolgirl inherits a shrine and its fox familiar, and the gods and spirits of Japan become the cast of a romance.

    Yokai that appear: Kitsune, Tengu, Oni, Bake-danuki

  5. Toilet-bound Hanako-kun 地縛少年花子くん

    Yokai-adjacent: urban legends and mixed lore AidaIro · 2014–

    The toilet ghost of the school legends is a boy, and he rules the Seven Mysteries of Kamome Academy.

    Yokai that appear: Ningyo, Kitsune, Kodama, Tsuchigumo

  6. Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan ぬらりひょんの孫

    Uses the names, reinvents the rest Shiibashi Hiroshi · 2008–2012

    The grandson of the supreme commander of the yokai is a schoolboy by day and the heir to the Night Parade by night.

    Yokai that appear: Nurarihyon, Yuki-onna, Kappa, Tengu, Ushi-oni, Hihi, Bake-danuki, Inugami, Kamaitachi, Zashiki-warashi, Kitsune, Oni, Shōkera, Gashadokuro, Tsuchigumo, Nue, Kudan, Nekomata, Satori, Ōmukade, Namahage