Well, this shouldn’t be a surprise. Manga has done many works on a host of different subjects. Heck, we even have a dinosaur zoo manga. So naturally, somewhere out there, there would be a youkai zoo manga. Hence The Youkai Caretaker! …Yokai caretaker…or youkai caretaker? The manga couldn’t decide either — it manages to say […]
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