This manga is nothing special, it's a monster of the week series that gradually tries to be something more at the halfway point in the manga. You get a detective and his two sidekicks sleuthing and doing comfy slice of life shenanigans with very mild stakes involved for the first 12 or so chapters. After this, it attempts to flesh out each main character with some backstory, it feels rather forced when it comes to the female lead. Even a bit confusing, her backstory is only given to us because she is plagued with an allegory. Which I will not explain to you, if haven'tread the synopsis of this manga why are you reading reviews?

Anyways, her allegory and the circumstances that lead to exposing it really don't make much sense. She's sent home by our MC, due to le plot development that I will not spoil for you. When she gets home, heavy exposition occurs and I can't stop but thinking to myself, why the hell is the MC here? Why did he send her home for this, why did they know about this allegory, how did they get to her house before her when they didn't know where she stayed, why did they know to come.

One of these questions, is answered, then begs even more questions.

Her uncle Grandpa dude called them, but how? How did he know to call them, why did he know she would come home and just be haunted by a whole ass ghost and how does he know what allegories are and how did know where she even was, I'm just so confused at some of these plot points.

And why did he call them, ask them to protect her, then not tell them about the big ass reveal related to get exposition and allegory??

I'll be honest maybe I just missed some important bits, I did speed through some chapters if they bored me but I really don't think I missed something like that, he kicks her out and it's made out like a big ole breakup scene. His contact with her grandfather makes zero sense as he knows literally nothing about her. They literally barely even have time to like each other before this happens so?

Besides really small gripes like this my only other real criticism of the manga is that the last chapters feel breakneck rushed. They steamroll through the main characters exposition, and even lump the secondary female leads exposition into his exposition chapter which, ouch, that sucks!! Hanako was awesome, and her backstory made her even moreso.

Then you are hinted at more exposition at the end, that ends up being a needlessly confusing fake out after a very rushed few pages are spent trying to make the trip seem like a happy family.

They only do this to make the final fight seem more high stakes than it really is, it feels very forced and melodramatic.

Regardless though, it's a nice read, it's just really weak in some aspects.

The main thing about this manga that you see, is the action and exorcism of allegories. Which can get really cringe when the MC becomes the nine tailed fox of urban legends, this makes the usually charming and campy monster of the week fights turn into chuunibyou tier slop not even 7 chapters deep. But this usually only occurs in the climax of the fights so I can ignore it, I just wanted to point it out.

Overall, I think this is a cute little manga, it's just very aimless and it shows. Everything feels added on as an afterthought.

6/10 was my original rating but as I typed this out I've convinced myself it's a 5.