Jul 26, 2025
A child is bullied, has no friends, no family to speak of... well, if you ignore the dozens of ghosts, demons, and gods who regularly play with him.
“Kaii-san to Ore” is a really short manga in the sense that although there are 80 chapters, each chapter is only 1 to 10 pages long, usually around 2 pages. It's about a little boy who sees ghosts and befriends them, even though some of them are evil and initially try to eat him. I particularly liked this book because I love worldbuilding, and while this one has good and interesting characters, it's more about showing interesting interactions
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that explain the world bit by bit.
Another reason why I really loved this manga is that most “ghost stories” like this one portray ghosts as evil—sometimes as good, if folklore believes them to be good spirits—without providing any explanations such as motivations, backstories, or the like. This makes the ghosts seem more like a concept than characters, which is not the case here. Sometimes this concept can still be used well—I particularly like “Dark Gathering” because of how it implements this concept—but most of the time that's not the case. An example of a really poor implementation is “Mieruko-chan,” where the protagonist not only thinks that all spirits are evil, but doesn't even seriously try to fight them, appease them, or whatever.
I still didn't give it a full 10/10 because the chapters are so short. Don't get me wrong, it wouldn't be a problem if the chapters were only two pages long, but the problem is more that these pages represent the middle part of a situation without explaining what happens before or after. This makes many chapters feel incomplete. At first, I was worried that I might have received a faulty version with some chapters or pages missing. To be honest, I'm still not sure if that wasn't the case.
All in all 8 out of 10 Potato Points.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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