Soara and the House of Monsters

• Ja Kanji — ソアラと魔物の家 • Ja Romaji — Soara to Mamono no Ie • Genre — Fantasy, adventure

• Type — manga • Author — Hidenori Yamaji • Publisher — Shogakukan • Imprint — Sunday Webry Comics • Magazine — * Shōnen Sunday S • Sunday Webry • First — November 25, 2021 • Volumes — 7

• Type — tv series • Director — Takaharu Ozaki • Writer — Ayumu Hisao • Music — Hinako Tsubakiyama • Studio — Felix Film • First — 2027 • Last — scheduled

• Portal — yes Soara and the House of Monsters is a Japanese fantasy adventure manga series written and illustrated by Hidenori Yamaji. Shogakukan publishes it since November 2021 in their magazine Shōnen Sunday S and on their webcomic platform Sunday Webry, and also releases it in collected tankōbon volumes. These have since September 2023 been released in English by Seven Seas Entertainment. An anime television series adaptation produced by Felix Film is set to premiere in 2027. The story follows the human woman Soara, who after the end of a war between monsters and humans joins a group of travelling dwarf architects who build houses for various types of monsters. It was nominated for the Next Manga Award for best web manga in 2022 and 2023, and was well received for its artwork of monster houses and its themes of prejudice and understanding.

Soara and the House of Monsters is a fantasy adventure story following Soara, an orphan who has been trained to fight in the war between humans and monsters, but is left without a purpose and home when peace is declared just as she becomes old enough to be a knight. Wandering aimlessly, she encounters a group of traveling dwarf architects led by Kiriku, who renovate and build dream homes for monsters, such as goblins, slimes, and dragons. Soara is distrustful of monsters, but is moved by the architects' work, and joins them in their travels.

• Soara • Ikumi Hasegawa • Kiriku • Ayumu Murase

Soara and the House of Monsters is written and drawn by Hidenori Yamaji, who originally created the series from a desire to combine the fantasy genre with something relatable to readers. He considered housing as a theme to be simultaneously unusual in fantasy manga, and something very familiar to readers, so he chose to write a story about architecture with fantasy elements. When drawing the artwork, Yamaji focused on drawing houses that not only were entertaining and exciting to look at, but that also were structured in a believable way, that would have made sense for the monsters if they were real. To help reader better visualize the houses, he chose to draw detailed cross-sections of them.

The manga is serialized by Shogakukan since November 25, 2021, both in their monthly manga magazine Shōnen Sunday S and on their webcomic platform Sunday Webry. Shogakukan also publishes the series in collected tankōbon volumes since May 12, 2022, under their imprint Sunday Webry Comics; since September 5, 2023, these have been released in English by Seven Seas Entertainment and in Chinese by Tong Li Publishing.

An anime television series adaptation was announced on July 1, 2026. The series will be produced by Felix Film and directed by Takaharu Ozaki, with series composition handled by Ayumu Hisao, characters designed by Tomoko Iwasa, and music composed by Hinako Tsubakiyama. It is set to premiere in 2027.