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"Eeeek! A human-faced fish!"

This is my favourite line in this volume. The most accurate description of a mermaid. (I laughed hard at this.)

The story was humorous, with a lot of mystery behind the whole concept of the story. A ghost -haunting a girl's bathroom - who happens to be the school's 7th mystery. A girl who heard the rumours that the ghost grants wishes - visited Hanako to ask him to help her by making her senpai fall in love with her.

This went horribly wrong, and she ended up as his servant. I cannot wait to read Volume 2.… (mehr)

To be honest, and completely totally honest, Toilet Bound Hanako-kun is absolutely so well written. It starts off with the protagonist, Nene Yashiro, summoning her schools (Kamome Academy) 7th school mystery, Hanako-san of the toilet. She knocks on the third stall, and utters the words: “Hanako-san, Hanako-san. Are you there?” Hanako then reveals himself, but instead of being the girl with the bob in the 3rd stall of the old abandoned bathroom, it turns out he’s a 13 year old ghost boy! It all stems off from that. (Spoiler Warning) Everything evolves into a chaotic well written situation. The dilemma that presents itself is this: Someone has been messing with The School Mysteries stories. So the quest starts to find out whose messing with the school mysteries; or, one of the quests starts. Nene wants her crush (Teru Minamoto) to like her, Kou Minamoto (an exorcist, like his big brother) wants to exorcise Hanako (Hanako and Hanako-san are the same person, the honorific is just changed), but Kou, who is a 3rd year in middle school, is also in love with Nene! So all three of them set off to destroy the school mysteries. First the Mokke rebel, since their rumor was changed. They tried to destroy students who looked at them, and stole students things. Nene and Hanako eventually put an end to this problem and changed the rumor. Then Aoi Akane (Nene’s best friend) disappears; along with many others. In the end, they figure out School Mystery #2 has been taking the children, for stepping on the 4th step of the Misaki stairs, and they soon enter School Mystery’s #2 boundary, a place between life and death. They go through trials to find all the missing children, and they do; just in doll form. This volume ends on a cliff hanger; Yako’s scissors just above Nene’s head. Now personally, I would 100% recommend this to people 13 and older, because of some of the jokes (which aren’t anything too bad). The series evolves into something wonderful (spoiler warning): Akane Aoi (one of Nene and Aoi’s classmates, who is madly in love with Aoi) turns out to be a school mystery (#1 in specific), Aoi turns out to be a much deeper character than anticipated, Hanako is a murderer, Tsukasa (Hanako’s “younger brother”) is the victim of that muder, and is also Hanako’s Yorishiro; and he’s not even Hanako’s real brother, he’s the thing under Hanako + the real Tsukasa’s house (which is some type of unexplainable creature), Mistuba is a ghost that yearns to be human, after his life was cut short while he was out shopping for potatos for his mother’s birthday curry, Nene Yashiro figures out she has left than a year left to live, and is in love with Hanako, and in return Hanako is in love with her too. Since Hanako is a murderer (and doesn’t mind getting more blood on his hands),, he decided to sacrifice Aoi to the far shore; to give Nene a long happy and healthy life, but in return, he and all the other super naturals are banished to the real world, since Aoi descends from a family that was known for sacrificing girls in the olden days to keep supernaturals away. But, another dilemma arises: only kanagies (I’m not sure how to spell that, but basically it’s the girl whose going to be sacrificed tital) should be able to destroy Yorishiro’s, which supposedly is not. So much more happens outside of this, there just too much too explain, but I highly recommend reading this series, it may seem a little bit odd at first, but I assure you it turns into something amazing.… (mehr)