Nurarihyon no Mago (Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan)

Rikuo Nura appears to be an ordinary middle school student. Appearances, however, can be deceiving. In reality, the young boy has one-fourth of youkai blood and is the heir to a large clan of youkai led by his grandfather, Nurarihiyon. As a small child, he was told that youkai often perform evil deeds, leading to his reluctance to succeed the Nura Clan and doing whatever he could to avoid his destiny.

During the night, Rikuo undergoes a transformation into a fearsome youkai who resembles Nurarihiyon in his prime. Realizing that he can use his power to protect others, he accepts his inheritance, aiming to unite all the youkai factions across Japan and establish his own "Night Parade of a Hundred Demons."

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Nurarihyon no Mago was published in English as Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan by VIZ Media under the Shonen Jump imprint from February 1, 2011 to February 3, 2015; and in Italian as I Signori dei Mostri by Panini Comics under the Planet Manga imprint from April 25, 2010 to May 31, 2014.

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Alternative version:	Nurarihyon no Mago
Side story:	Nurarihyon no Mago, Nurarihyon no Mago: Kage
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Adaptation:	Nurarihyon no Mago: Sennen Makyou, Nurarihyon no Mago

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Nura, Rikuo

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Oikawa, Tsurara

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Keikain, Yura

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Ienaga, Kana

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Nura, Rihan

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Gitsune, Hagoromo

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Nurarihyon

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Kubinashi

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Kappa

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Kurotabou

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Jun 12, 2017

xiliqs

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I decided to write this review because all other people that wrote the reviews here haven't finished the manga....

So first I need to say that I watched both seasons of the anime, and after that I decided to read the manga (started on chapter 134 until 210 and then read the 5 omakes that come after)

I will be sincere, the story starts slow, but after a while it gets really good.
The second main arc (with Hagoromo Gitsune) is the best for me... after that the manga gets a little bit slow again, but then it get's better, SO DON'T GIVE UP

The manga got axed by ...

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Jul 25, 2018

PharuanUndearth

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It's quite a bit to unpack and all this 210 chapter series. Not really wanting to go an exposition, unless I really like the series I could go on for ages talking about the series. It's not that the series was bad or uninteresting it's just for some reason the last 10 chapters took me about 2 weeks to read, that's why it took me a month to read all this. Either I would fall asleep while reading the chapters or I would fall asleep with my phone in my hand right before I opened up the app to read. I would be at work ... and it would be too busy so I couldn't read during work. there was just a whole bunch of things that got in the way of me actually finishing this series and it pissed me off.

~SPOILERS~

Now that I'm done the damn series here's my feelings on it, it's a good series I said in the previous paragraph not bad at all it seems a little basic to me I mean the grandchild inherits the leadership of the clan, he's a quarter Yokai, so his grandpa fell in love with a human, his dad had to fall in love with a human not that he wanted to and not that it was his first love like it was for his grandfather but circumstances in the series prevented him from actually mating with another Yokai(by way of a curse). So to actually have any children he had to fuck a human otherwise it wouldn't have worked. He eventually comes to accept his Yokai form or his Yokai side and realize it's not a bad thing to be two different things at once. He starts fighting other Yokai trying to get them in line getting his clan back to the way it used to be, prove that he's a good third head of the clan. He learns the limits of his power, get in a big fight with old enemies. Then he trains to get more powerful I believe it's called motai where he wears Yokai almost like a garment increases his power and gains a little bit of their speciality (e.g., he'll wear Yuki-Onna he gains an ice slash). Now this actually proves pretty cool, and pretty useful but it in no way actually turns any of the battles except for maybe the last one . because he wears fucking Ninetales / Vulpix on his shoulders and it uses it tails to distract the bad guy from some sort of bullshit, fuck it stupid. The very end was very bad the resolution was horrible, good guy wins, bad guy loses, everybody's happy, and nobody dies, technically. Hell even his grandpa who was supposed to fucking die cuz he used up almost all his fucking power fucking lives cuz reasons, Jesus, plot armor.

Looks like I went into a mini rant here's the TL:DR; read once, put it down, set on fire, done.

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May 26, 2021

Yamamoto_001

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1-History:The story revolves around a character who seeks to become the leader of the "Nura clan", clan that covers 10,000 youkai, this character lives (at least at the beginning) in an impasse between living as a human or in his "ayakashi" way (he is 1/4 youkai), obviously I couldn’t focus on just that, the work itself is very vast and well built, the plot is well interwoven, requiring a certain intelligence to understand it as a whole (which I admire), in addition a person who started the work "of middle "(as many do) would have difficulty understanding what was going on, this work is a ... butterfly effect, an act in the first episode influences the last.
The story covers several historical periods, and so it ends up teaching us interesting things about those periods, in addition to showing us some interesting thoughts and facts about human (or ayakashis) nature, so I can also say that Nurarihyon no Mago is a work very deep at that point, and very interesting.]
2-Art:very beautiful, a trait that I liked a lot. It's a bit heavy (the black shading just creates this feeling), it doesn't have constant anatomical errors and it has very well-designed action scenes (which surprised me), I really liked the characters' traits, they are very pretty (although not really like the trait of human Rikuo, what big eye is that?)
3-characters:very fine built; Nurarihyon no Mago impresses with the gigantic size of the cast, and it impresses me even more that most are important and we can see a good development, the evolution of Rikuo is commendable, as well as that of Tsurara, the scenes from the past arches show how Kurotabou, Ao and Cia evolved, changed. This manga made me abandon the belief that "humans don't change" (not that ayakashis are humans) for a while, I was really able to examine each character in a very pleasant way, from Rikuo to Abe No Seimei.
4-Enjoyment: this work pleased me very much, it is very original and impressive in several points, a work that captivated me, enough for me to finish everything in about three days, if it was bad I would be reading for weeks, it won me over, simply
5-Overall:Nurarihyon no Mago is a very well-built work, with a well-thought-out story, well-made features and well-developed characters, summing up, it has everything that most works do not have, even though this work is not able to enter between my animes and favorite manga, it sure goes into a "TOP 15", it's a shame that it's not popular, I definitely recommend it, if you're reading this and will read the manga, "welcome and have a great read", if you already I read, "buddy, really, I want a third season"

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