Mieruko-chan

• Name — Mieruko-chan • Ja Kanji — 見える子ちゃん • Genre — Horror comedy

• Type — manga • Author — Tomoki Izumi • Publisher — Kadokawa Shoten • Magazine — Web Comic Apanta • Imprint — MF Comics • First — November 2, 2018 • Volumes — 14

• Type — tv series • Director — Yuki Ogawa • Producer — * Masaki Arimura • Joutarou Ishigami • Noritomo Isogai • Hajime Maruyama • Taiyou Matsuda • Mitsuhiro Ogata • Hiroo Saitou • Writer — Kenta Ihara • Music — Kana Utatane • Studio — Passione • Licensee — Crunchyroll • Network — AT-X, Tokyo MX, KBS Kyoto, SUN, BS NTV • First — October 3, 2021 • Last — December 19, 2021 • Episodes — 12

• Portal — yes "The Girl Who Can See Them" is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tomoki Izumi. It began serialization online via Kadokawa's Web Comic Apanta website in November 2018, with fourteen tankōbon volumes released so far. The manga is licensed in North America by Yen Press. An anime television series adaptation by Passione aired from October to December 2021.

High school student Miko Yotsuya has the unfortunate ability to see horrifying ghosts and spirits that haunt her and the people around her. Despite this, Miko does her best to ignore the existence of ghosts and tries to live out a normal high school life.

• Miko Yotsuya: • A timid young girl and the protagonist of the story who suddenly became able to see ghosts without any known reason. To keep her usual daily life, she pretends not to see them, as well as making efforts to prevent her best friend Hana from seeing them. • Hana Yurikawa: • Miko's air-headed best friend who is oblivious to Miko's current situation. She is fond of eating. However, her eating also increases her life aura, which makes ghosts more attracted to her. • Yuria Niguredō: • Miko and Hana's schoolmate who, like Miko, is also able to see ghosts. She is very fond of a local fortune teller and is disappointed when she closes her business. After finding out that Miko and Hana were the fortune teller's last customers, she becomes interested in the two, finding out that Miko has supernatural powers. • Michiru Ichijō • Saori Hayami (voice comic) • A mysterious transfer student who gains an interest in Miko. She works as a model. • Zen Tohno: • A teacher who temporarily replaces Miko and Hana's homeroom teacher after she went on parental leave. Miko suspects him as someone who abuses stray cats. It is later revealed that he takes care of cats due to an incident during his childhood, as a result of a poor relationship with his mother. • Mitsue Takeda / Godmother: • A fortune teller who ran a spiritual business that Yuria frequented often while it was open. She gives up the business after Miko visited, but is curious about Miko's abilities. • Kyōsuke Yotsuya: • Miko's younger brother, who is determined to protect her while oblivious of Miko's current situation. • Tōko Yotsuya: • Miko and Kyōsuke's mother. • Mamoru Yotsuya: • Miko and Kyōsuke's father, who died prior to the events of the story. • Junji Rōsoku:

Mieruko-chan is written and illustrated by Tomoki Izumi, and began serialization in Kadokawa's ComicWalker website on November 2, 2018. Kadokawa Shoten began publishing the series in print in April 2019 and have released fourteen tankōbon volumes as of March 2026. The series is licensed in English by Yen Press.

An anime television series adaptation was announced on March 18, 2021. The series is animated by Passione and directed by Yuki Ogawa, with Takahiro Majima serving as assistant director, Shintarō Matsushima serving as directing assistant, Kenta Ihara supervising and writing the series' scripts, Chikashi Kadekaru designing the characters and serving as chief animation director, and Makoto Uno designing the monsters. Kana Utatane composed the music for the series. Sora Amamiya performed the opening theme "I Can't See Them, Okay!?", as well as the ending theme "You Saw Me? You Saw Me, Right?? You're Seeing Me Right Now, Right???". The series aired from October 3 to December 19, 2021, on AT-X, Tokyo MX, KBS Kyoto, SUN, and BS NTV. Funimation licensed the series outside of Asia. Muse Communication licensed the series in South and Southeast Asia. On December 10, 2021, Funimation announced the series would receive an English dub, which premiered on December 12.

• Nanoka Hara as Miko Yotsuya • Rinka Kumada as Hana Yurikawa • Naenano as Yuria Niguredo

In 2019, Mieruko-chan was nominated for the 5th Next Manga Awards in the digital category and placed 10th out of 50 nominees. As of October 2022, the manga had over two million copies in circulation. Anime News Network (ANN) had two editors review the first volume of the manga: Rebecca Silverman praised the final chapter for taking the story in a more sustainable direction than the first two Hana-filled ones, but critiqued that it felt "pretty disconnected" from the beginning, concluding with: "Since it does have interesting art (and mild fanservice if you're looking for that) and an evolving mythology, I think it will be worth giving it that second volume to even itself out." Caitlin Moore commended Tomoki's creative designs on the horrific ghosts and Miko's "body language and facial expressions" when ignoring them, but was critical of the horny "gaze-y camera angles" and "random, subtle out-of-place fanservice shots" distracting her from enjoying the manga's concept, concluding with: "I'm having a hard time not thinking of the manga this could have been with a different author – one where the horrors Miko encounters are metaphors for the intrusions a teenage girl faces, instead of the paneling intruding on her itself."

Fellow ANN editor Nicholas Dupree placed Mieruko-chan at number five on his top 5 best anime list of 2021, praising the adaptation's combination of deadpan comedy with "absolutely rock-solid horror fundamentals" and delivering "sincere, heartwarming moments" that show the afterlife's sentimental side, concluding that: "All of that combined gives you a show that can scare you, punch you in the gut, and then make you laugh like an idiot in a single episode." Allen Moody from THEM Anime Reviews wrote: "I'm calling this an interesting failure. The situation is not without its fascinating aspects, but you usually like to see some progression in the protagonist's situation, and it's largely absent here."