Hauntress

Hauntress (Japanese: 座敷女, Hepburn: Zashiki Onna; "Phantom Stalker Woman") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Minetarō Mochizuki. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine in 1993, with its chapters collected in a single tankōbon volume.

Hauntress
Tankōbon volume cover
座敷女 (Zashiki Onna)
Genre	Psychological horror[1]
Manga
Written by	Minetarō Mochizuki
Published by	Kodansha
English publisher	NA: Kodansha USA
Magazine	Weekly Young Magazine
Published	1993
Volumes	1

Publication

Written and illustrated by Minetarō Mochizuki, Hauntress was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine in 1993.^[2] Kodansha collected its chapters in a single tankōbon volume released on July 6 of that same year.^[3][4]

In July 2024, Kodansha USA announced that it had licensed the manga for English release in North America, with the volume set to be released on February 25, 2025.^[5][1]

Reception

The series ranked ninth on the "Most Traumatizing Manga" poll conducted by Japanese website Goo Ranking in 2015;^[6] it ranked eleventh on the "Horror Manga To Keep You Up at Night" poll conducted by the same website in 2018.^[7]