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“Exorcist's sister vanishes; brother uses her monster notebook and shinigami clue to find her.”
Ghost Diary
カイダンにっき
6.3
20,046 rank · 1,859 readers · 34 favorites
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Synopsis
Exorcist's sister vanishes; brother uses her monster notebook and shinigami clue to find her.
Sukami Kyouichi was born into an exorcist family, and his older sister is an expert exorcist. She's been putting together a notebook where she has written how to handle all of the different monsters she's met in her work. One day, Kyouichi and his friends in the Occult Club at school go to investigate a supposedly cursed shrine, and he ends up needing to be rescued by his sister. Shortly afterward, she goes missing, presumed by many to be dead, and leaves her little brother with only the notebook. Kyouichi stays in the Occult club, and as he grows up, he remains dedicated to the search for his beloved older sister. One day, his search starts to finally make some progress, when a shinigami who claims she was his sister's friend appears... (Source: MangaHelpers)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 4 sampled reviews
5.5
/10
What 4 readers settled on.
33%
recommend
Score distribution
median 5
mode 3
σ 2.29
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.29 · split reception
The polarity gap
5.5 pts
Recommenders 9.0 · others 3.5
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Score over time
↓ 0.50
Running avg · Jun 2018 → Jan 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “I really enjoyed this story! Sure there are some character flaws here and there, but most of them get explained in the last volume. At first, I thought the storyline was kinda hard to follow,...”
- 3 “I don't write many preliminary reviews, because I'm always really hesitant to read them myself. So I encourage everyone to take this with a grain of salt, but sometimes I just feel the need to...”
- 4 “I thought the cover art was pretty eye-catching, but you shouldnt judge books by their cover because this was shit. I read 5 chapters and dropped so take this review with a grain of salt. None of...”
Verbosity
Short · 25%
Medium · 50%
Long · 25%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 16 × 3 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 08m approx
- Published Jul 2014 – Oct 2015
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M34746 catalog