I wasnt planning to make a review but I ended up surpassing the character limit of the notes system and while I went through it to fix it up a little there might be some jank within. What I can say before running into spoiler territory is that we have a setup in which the protagonist as the next successor of his family known for spiritual powers handles paranormal cases. While the cases are not brought up again after they end theres a story that develops between them and sometimes while in the cases. After this point there are spoilers. The manga is about Subaru the 13th successor to his clan who work to settle paranormal cases he has a twin sister called Hokuto who has little spiritual powers so she wasnt chosen. They are often together the protagonist is a goodie and kinda bland protagonist while Hokuto is outspoken and always telling her brother to go out with Seishirou who is 9 years older than him and apparently Subaru is 15 when they meet and maybe 16 when it ends pretty creepy a veterinarian whos always professing his love for Subaru. Often when they meet we have Seishirou pushing himself onto Subaru not physically usually Subaru blushing and his sister teasing him. Theres quite a bit of that in this manga for some reason specially at the start. In between these antics there are paranormal cases sometimes spirits clinging to a place and sometimes the living meddling in some way with spirits not all of these cases have a happy ending. The problem is how they try to build suspense for stuff that will appear much later they mention the glove Subaru wears that he must not take off for any reason the thing is even he doesnt know why hes just listening to his grandmother the previous head of the family. The gloves are brought up a few times through the manga maybe in case we dont forget but its still a bit annoying to keep bringing them up without actually provide information on why they are important and this happens with something else as well. Now the thing is that the Sumeragi clan isnt the only clan known for its spiritual powers the Sakurazuka clan is known to use spiritual powers for murder But while Sei has the Sakurazuka surname its common so it doesnt mean hes part of the clan. However its revealed early on that Sei possesses some powers and while we see some otherwise normal people using incantations the fact that he can and with his surname it should make some alarms ring on Subarus head and while he thinks about it a little at some points theres no real effort put towards finding out if its the case. Now back to the sister as her brother is often doing spiritual works she often cooks for her apparently shes good at cooking and baking and while she isnt good with the spiritual shes adept at fighting we never see her actually training and its never important to the story she only beat some policemen in a side story where none of the other main characters appeared. She also acts as moral support for Subaru in general and loves to wear extravagant attires. While shes always pushing Sei and Subaru together about midway through the manga she starts threatening Sei saying he better not hurt Subaru despite this she keeps pushing them together. A bet is often mentioned by Sei generally muttered to himself and a lot of those times he removes his glasses for dramatic effect just like with the gloves the authors thought to build suspense by just mentioning something repeatedly in a dramatic fashion heck Sei even broke a mirror once when mentioning the bet so we dont forget. Eventually we see that Sei isnt afraid to hurt others and even murder but these events are unknown to the protagonist. At some point a woman is going to slash at the protagonist and Sei gets in the middle and ends up losing his eye as a result the problem is that theres no reason for this he has shown how adept he is even if you consider that he might not want to show his ugly side to the protagonist he has already shown twice he can make people faint once with Subaru and once with Hokuto so he could have avoided being wounded altogether. From this Subaru ends up realizing he truly loves Sei. Eventually the lid over the secret is unveiled the protagonist finds that he had met Sei 7 years prior. Sei had just killed a little girl as he was the head of the assassin clan. While hed normally kill any witnesses he decides to make a bet if they ever met again hed try to love him for 1 year if by the end he became a special person for him he wouldnt kill him and he marked his hands as he was now a target. Subarus grandmother gave him special gloves to conceal the fact not that it fooled him when he met Subaru in Tokyo 7 years after. Despite the year they spent together and the affection he had shown he never cared about Subaru and was only saved because his grandmother managed to break his spell but Subaru was left as if soulless due to the shock. His sister feeling responsible ended up chasing Sei and being killed which finally makes Subaru snap out of his trance like state theres a time skip showing he began working again is now smoking and isnt cheerful like he used to be. He vowed to kill Sei and avenge his sister but it ends without them meeting again as the last stretch was just so set up a sequel hook. With all that said the highlight for me were the cases some more engaging than others of course but a lot of them contained criticism towards the Japanese society. Though some were just about the personal pain the people within the story suffered. Once the protagonist finds a woman trying to bury a dogs head to create an inugami to curse the killer of her little daughter she was denied retribution by the justice system as he was declared insane the protagonist channels her daughters spirit in an attempt to stop her and while the mother is able to see her spirit she cant hear what she says but he can and shes saying how much it hurt and that she wants the criminal punished so the protagonist ends up lying to the mother to stop her as cursing the man would end up getting her cursed as well. Though its unclear if this case has a lasting impact on how he thinks hes hurt and feels guilty about lying to her about what her daughter was saying. The relationship of the protagonist with Sei Seis preventable wound the protagonist putting 0 effort into finding more about Sei the way it tried to build suspense with both the gloves and the bet and how it ended with a sequel hook are what ended up souring the experience to me. Although it was nice that just like some of the cases didnt get a good ending there was no good ending for his love story. So in general in its exaggerations it ended up losing me but others are likely to look past that or not care as much as I did.