Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs

Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs (ゆらぎ荘の幽奈さん) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tadahiro Miura. The manga was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine from February 2016 to June 2020, and collected into twenty-four volumes.

In North America, Seven Seas Entertainment published the series in English under its Ghost Ship imprint from 2018 to 2023. An anime television series adaptation produced by Xebec aired from July to September 2018.

Plot

The series follows the life of the luckless and homeless high school student Kogarashi Fuyuzora. In his search for a home, he is introduced to the Yuragi Inn, a cheap boarding house and former hot springs inn. The reason the rent is so cheap is because it is haunted by the beautiful ghost spirit Yuuna whose corpse was discovered at the inn. Kogarashi then helps Yuuna with her unfinished business, all while discovering the supernatural secrets of the rest of the female tenants.

Characters

• Kogarashi Fuyuzora (冬空 コガラシ)
• [2]
• A powerful psychic who can vanquish his foes easily. Prior to the start of the story, he was homeless before coming to the Yuragi Inn. As a child, he often lived in orphanages. Much to his chagrin, his body was susceptible to being easily possessed by spirits, causing misfortune in his childhood. However, he was able to become physically and spiritually stronger after training under Ōga Makyōin (魔境院逢牙), a descendant of the Yatahagane (八咫鋼) family. He is the only known living person that can use the abilities of the Yatahagane, but also inheriting the weaknesses of the Yatahagane. Kogarashi is extremely popular with the females around him with almost all of the female characters being love interests of his.
• Yuuna Yunohana (湯ノ花 幽奈)
• [3]
• She is a ghost who is bound to the Yuragi Inn. She has no recollection of her life when she was alive and asks for Kogarashi's assistance in helping her discover who she was, developing an attachment to him in the process. In the manga however, she was revealed to be a clone made from Mahoro Tenko and a legendary monster Garandō. She is the legendary Genryūsai Tenko, a powerful warrior known for psychic prowess. She later uses her skills after she unlocks her memories, but retained her Yūna identity, and her bound ghost status was weakened enough to roam at the inn by night. At the end of the series she stays bound to the world of the living despite clearing her regrets due to wanting to stay with Kogarashi whom she marries soon after.
• Sagiri Ameno (雨野 狭霧)
• [3]
• A ninja from a clan of demon-slaying ninjas. She is dedicated to her duty as a ninja, spending time going on missions to destroy harmful supernatural creatures. Although she too has developed feelings towards Kogarashi, she chooses to bottle them up for her own pride and her intent on not getting in the way of the other girls who love Kogarashi. After she unlocked her ultimate spiritual armor, she confessed her love.
• Hibari Ameno (雨野 雲雀)
• [4]
• The cousin of Sagiri who is also a ninja. She considers herself as a rival to Sagiri and wants to surpass her one day. She met Kogarashi and forced him to pretend to be her boyfriend to unnerve Sagiri. Eventually, she moves into the Yuragi Inn after being infatuated with Kogarashi's heroism as well as assisting Sagiri in her missions. In later chapters she eventually confessed and was rejected by Kogarashi (similar to Karura Hiogi), however that event only made her feelings stronger, making her bolder in her further pursuit of him. She also unlocked her ultimate ability, but Kogarashi still does not reciprocate her feelings in the slightest and continues to reject her.
• Urara Kawashima (浦方 うらら)
• Sagiri and Hibari's friend and fellow Ninja. She uses her communication via telepathy and her paper shikigami.
• Yaya Fushiguro (伏黒 夜々)
• [5]
• A timid girl who acts as a vessel for a cat god. She exhibits catlike behavior as well as having cat ears and a tail when she is possessed by it. Through their bond, she is able to call on its power whenever it is needed, and she can also warp in more cat gods through her body, but at the cost of her cat abilities temporarily.
• Chitose Nakai (仲居 ちとせ)
• [5]
• A zashiki-warashi who is the caretaker of the Yuragi Inn. She has the power to manipulate the fortune of others, but she rarely uses it because of its potential consequences. She also enters middle school thanks to Tsutomu, her childhood friend turned principal. She hides the fact that she enters school, until her cover was blown.
• Nonko Arahabaki (荒覇吐 呑子)
• [5]
• An oni who works as a manga author. She loves to drink alcohol, and as she becomes more intoxicated, her power as an oni grows, but not always needed to drink it, her clan absorb the alcohol. She is formerly a member of the Yoinozaka (宵ノ坂) family, one of the three great families in Japan, but left the clan and pursued her passions. She is quite energetic, but an airhead.
• Chisaki Miyazaki (宮崎 千紗希)
• [3]
• A girl who befriends Kogarashi after meeting him during the first day of high school. She is also a popular girl at school, known for her beauty. She later develops feelings for Kogarashi when he shows to be a dependable person. She also befriends Yuuna, but is initially unable to see her due to a lack of supernatural powers, thus relying on written forms of communication to talk to her. When Koyuzu possesses her, she develops her ghost vision, allowing her to see Yuuna.
• Oboro Shintō (神刀 朧)
• Oboro moves into the Yuragi Inn after being impressed by Kogarashi's strong physical and spiritual prowess. Her initial motivation to moving in was to preserve her family's bloodline by attempting to seduce Kogarashi. As she continues on this plan and interacting with the fellow tenants though, she begins to display emotion and genuine romantic feelings towards him. Oboro also has a younger half-brother named Genshiro Ryuga (龍雅 玄士郎) ([6]), who is the head of the Ryuuga clan and the current Black Dragon God.
• Karura Hiōgi (緋扇 かるら)
• [4]
• A tengu whose family is affiliated with the Yoinozaka family. She fell in love with Kogarashi when he stopped a conflict between the Yoinozaka and the Tenko (天狐) family. Ever since then, she dedicated her time to finding Kogarashi. After rediscovering him, she abducts him to try and force him to marry her through a ritual, which ends in failure. After being rejected by Kogarashi, she strives to make amends with him for what she had done. Hiōgi tries her best to capture Kogarashi's heart as her clairvoyance ability shows he still harbors feelings for her. Hiōgi also has a nue for best friend named Mikogami Matora (ミコガミマトラ) ([4]), who is always looking to challenge the strongest people she meets in combat.
• Koyuzu Shigaraki (信楽 こゆず)
• [7]
• A tanuki who had been secretly stalking Chisaki in order to create the perfect human disguise. After being discovered by Chisaki, Kogarashi, and Yuuna, she eventually starts living in the Yuragi Inn after living alone for some time. She can create leaf charms that can transform themselves or other objects into new forms, but terrible on human transformation herself, a fact that she cannot go live like other tanukis who lives in human world. She can also possess other people, especially Chisaki. She was mature enough to live on her own, according to her race's rules, as tanukis are mature at a year old, and she is ten years old.
• Miria Katsuragi (葛城 ミリア)
• [4]
• A young kitsune who is another member of Tenko clan, but on the branch family. Like Koyuzu, she can create leaf charms that can transform themselves or other objects into new forms. Miria though can live in the human world as she has mastered human transformation. She initially ventured to the Yuragi Inn just to find out if the rumor of Genryūsai Tenko was there, and was surprised to find it in Yuuna. Miria ends up enjoying her time at the Inn and joins the other girls in their fun, while creating a friendly rivalry with Koyuzu.

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