How to Treat Magical Beasts - Recommendations

• Vol: 19+; Ch: 97+
• 2013 - ?

Chise Hatori was a child nobody wanted. Told by her own mother that she should never have been born and passed from one neglectful guardian to the next, the young girl has grown up feeling lost, hopeless, and emotionally numb. At age fifteen she sells herself into slavery, desperate for a home where somebody - anybody - actually wants her to be there, and is purchased by a mysterious being with a skull for a head. He whisks Chise off to his home in England and introduces her to a world of talking animals, dragons, and faeries, declaring that she is to become his apprentice in magic... and also his bride!

• Vol: 11; Ch: 77
• 2016 - 2022

When the demon girl Patty finds she’s too weak to summon an animal familiar, she chooses an old man named Norman to be her companion instead. Norman has a quirky appreciation for life in all its many forms and is quite the unconventional familiar for a demon like Patty. Together, they embark on an adventure driven by their shared weirdness!

• Vol: 11; Ch: 53
• 2015 - 2021

In a world split between the Inside and the Outside, those living in both realms are told never to cross over to the other side, lest they be cursed. A young girl named Shiva lives on the other side, in a vacant village with a demonic guardian known only as “Teacher.” Although the two are forbidden to touch, they seem to share a bond that transcends their disparate appearances. But when Shiva leaves Teacher’s care to seek out her grandmother, the secret behind her mysterious living arrangement comes to light.

• Vol: 10; Ch: 50
• 1999 - 2008

Mushi are another form of life which live parallel to our own natural world. The source of many myths and superstitions, they exist according to their own natural laws, and can be both beneficial and dangerous depending on circumstances.  Ginko, a traveling mushishi, investigates and helps out wherever the mushi have become a problem. Yet Ginko himself is marked by the creatures he researches, and he carries the weight of his past with him.

• Vol: 3
• 2002 - 2004

A story of a young girl who is exerting herself to become a veterinary surgeon.

• Ch: 439+
• 2022 - ?

• Vol: 2; Ch: 7
• 2002 - 2003

In order to become a skilled magic user like her mother, Yume Kikuchi leaves home and travels to Tokyo for training. Her instructor, Masami Oyamada, runs the Oyamada Magic Office which assists people in need of magical support. But although Yume shows great potential, she is too eager to use magic to solve everything, including situations that she doesn't fully understand! Yume sets forth on her journey to becoming a fully certified magic user, as she learns not only to develop her powers but also how and when to use them in order to help her clients.

• Vol: 1+; Ch: 5+
• 2020 - ?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 4
• 2008

The stage is Kyoto. Takiguchi Tsuina is a girl possessed by a curse that brings misfortune upon all those she falls in love with. Such a girl falls in love at first sight with the newly transfered Mikado-sempai, who is in fact an exorcist of the Department of Prevention of Supernatural Disasters. In order to walk along the same path as the one she loves, Tsuina becomes an apprentice of the wandering exorcist, Izuna.

• Vol: 7; Ch: 50
• 2000

K is a wizard who can grant wishes--all he asks in return is that which is most precious to the wisher... Mourning from a horrific loss, Jin Ryu wants K to bring back her parents and brother from the dead. But when K tells her that a wish such as this can only lead to greater tragedy, he agrees to take her on as an apprentice. Now Jin observes K with his various and sundry clients: A father who wants to put a stop to his son's relationship... A young woman who longs for her lover to remember... A boy who will do anything to be accepted... Global manga creator Hyun-Joo Seo's unforgettable, dramatic tale will ask you to answer one haunting question: What would you give up if you could make just one wish?