“First-grader Yuki sees supernatural creatures at school, faces mockery, and befriends caretaker, transfer student, and box-headed IQ.”
GoGo Monster
GOGOモンスター
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Synopsis
First-grader Yuki sees supernatural creatures at school, faces mockery, and befriends caretaker, transfer student, and box-headed IQ.
Yuki Tachibana, a withdrawn first grader, is convinced that the fourth floor of his school is home to supernatural creatures that few kids (and no adults) can see and he's worried about a recent influx of new, less friendly creatures and about his ability to perceive the true shape of things waning as he gets older. Most of the other kids mock Yuki, who they think is crazy due to his strange pronouncements and peculiar actions, and, aside from the creatures he sees, his only social interactions are with the school's kindly and open-minded caretaker, a new transfer student named Makoto Suzuki who's allocated the desk next to his and an enigmatic boy named IQ who always wears a box over his head. (Source: MU)
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Derived from 5 sampled reviews
What 5 readers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.62 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↓ 2.40
Running avg · Mar 2013 → Feb 2026
- 7 “The first work created without going through serialization in Japanese magazines, as is usually the case in the homeland. "GoGo Monster" was the sensei’s first attempt to create a one-volume work...”
- 9 “The loneliness of being a misunderstood child is unfathomable. I've only read a bit of “Sunny”, and watched “Ping-Pong: The Animation” from the same author. They're some of the greatest pieces of...”
- 10 “Youth can be an incomprehensible and overwhelming deluge of new ideas and emotions. This sensation is most certainly heightened in the place that they amalgamate and coalesce: at school. Everyone...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 5 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 0h 40m approx
- Published Oct 2000 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M1355 catalog