地縛少年 花子くん [Jibaku Shōnen Hanako-kun] Series by AidaIro

The origin of AidaIro’s masterpiece! Toilet-bound Hanako-kun was originally published as a self-contained short series, and you can read those three chapters here along with AidaIro’s debut work, “My Dear Living Dead.” If you want to watch Nene try to curse her ex to death, Kou fall off a roof (more than once), or Hanako-kun butt heads with a new group of School Mysteries, come and see where it all began!

"I'm not going anywhere."Nene and Kou want to learn more about their mysterious friend, Hanako-kun-and what better way to do that than by hunting down school mystery number five, "The Four P.M. Bookstacks"?! Rumors say a secret door in the library leads the way to a supernaturally special collection. The Bookstacks know everything about everyone who's attended Kamome Academy-past, present, AND future! But whatever you do, don't read the red books...or your future will be drenched in blood!

Nene steps into the spotlight! The mermaid kingdom hasn't forgotten her, and they're back to claim what's theirs! Can Hanako protect her from becoming permanently fishy? Meanwhile, Kou makes friends with an odd ghost haunting the entrance to the middle school division. Kou has no idea who this guy was when he was alive, but that doesn't mean he can't help him solve his unfinished business! Will the junior exorcist be able to help this friendly ghost pass on...?

When Nene is invited by enigmatic playboy Natsuhiko to a sketchy yet oddly enjoyable tea party, she meets Hanako-kun's "girlfriend" and his "little brother"...?! On top of that, she learns that one of her classmates might actually be a School Mystery, but she doesn't know who! Hanako offers to help -but just how far will he go to lure this supernatural out of hiding?

School Mystery No. 1's Clock Keeper of the future has gone out of control, turning Kamome Academy's entire student body into wrinkly old people! Hanako-kun, Nene, Kou, and Akane will have to work together to catch this agile trickster and keep the school from becoming a retirement home. But just when they seem to have Mirai cornered, one final prank goes horribly wrong, bringing Nene's secret out into the open...

Hanako-kun's assistant Nene has suddenly been dragged inside a mirror. Through the looking glass, she meets the spirit of a young boy calling himself Mitsuba. They try to escape the mirrors together, but the threat of No. 3 of the Seven Mysteries, the Hell of Mirrors, draws nearer. Who is it that saves them just in the nick of time...!?

Kou has seemed depressed ever since he, Nene, and Hanako-kun returned from the Hell of Mirrors three days prior. To cheer him up, the three friends decide to go to a Tanabata festival held within one of the school’s Boundaries. But instead of getting to enjoy the festival with Kou and Hanako-kun, Nene is suddenly whisked off to fifty years in the past—where she finds herself face-to-face with a living Hanako-kun?!

On a day like any other, Nene goes to school only to find Hanako-kun acting like one of her normal classmates...?! Weirder still, even though he’s supposed to be a ghost, nobody seems to find the presence of this so-called Amane-kun strange at all. Nene is determined to get to the bottom of this, and her search leads her to a mysterious tower...

If Nene and Kou want to return to their own world, they have to kill “Amane Yugi” and “Sousuke Mitsuba”— or rather, the versions of them living within the canvas of No. 4’s boundary. Faced with that cruel choice, Nene instead proposes a way to escape from this fake world to the boy she can’t help but call “Hanako-kun.” At the same time, Kou tries to win over Mitsuba...but just who exactly is this “Mitsuba”?!

At long last, Hanako-kun reveals his plan to save Nene from her inevitable, swiftly approaching death. But even knowing his intentions, Nene is determined to return to reality—and to do that, she’ll need the help of School Mystery No. 4, Mei Shijima. Can Nene help this spirit overcome her regret and self-loathing and find her way home?!

Shijima-san is willing to help Nene and her friends escape from the painting, but they don’t have much time to reach the distant exit before they’re trapped inside for good. To make matters worse, Hanako-kun is pulling out all the stops to keep them from leaving. And when Nene puts everything she has into trying to convince him to let them go, she’s shocked by the genuine emotion that wells up from him in response...

Nene and Akane are rescued from the clutches of a horde of supernaturals by School Mystery No. 6...who then immediately kidnaps Aoi?! With so many School Mystery seats unfilled and the long, dark night of Urabon here at last, Aoi may be the only one who can save the school from disaster—but at what cost?

After going to rescue Aoi, Hanako-kun and Nene are thrown from No. 6’s boundary and suddenly find themselves in a strange village, where they meet a girl named Sumire who seems to have a history with No. 6. Witnessing Sumire’s “wedding day” up close might just give Nene a hint on how to resolve the school’s impending crisis and save Aoi—but she’ll have to survive it first! Meanwhile, on the very banks of the Far Shore, Aoi and Akane finally put into words exactly what they mean to each other...

Nene’s best friend Aoi has been trapped on the Far Shore—but to Hanako-kun, who has been worrying for ages over how to save Nene from her rapidly approaching death, this turn of events is exactly what he needs. Nene and Akane have no intention of letting Aoi be sacrificed instead, but when every supernatural in the school starts to disappear, they realize it might already be too late. Is it time to say goodbye to the paranormal inhabitants of Kamome Academy once and for all?!

In exchange for a life, the link between this world and the next has been severed. Even so, Nene and Kou continue looking for a way to reach the boundary, a search that leads them to the cursed “Red House.” Inside, they discover a boy who looks just like a younger version of Hanako-kun and may have the answers they’ve been looking for—but they soon find the Red House is much easier to enter than to leave...

Nene has managed to escape the final resting place of all the kannagi sacrificed in this town, reuniting with Kou and the boy they now know to be a younger version of Tsukasa. As the beginning of the Yugi family tragedy is finally unveiled, Kou sees a chance to put everything to rights—if they can all escape the Red House. But this cursed mansion has already made the consequences of trying to free Tsukasa from its clutches very clear...

After being ripped apart by the severance between this world and the next, Nene and Hanako-kun are finally reunited. That being said, it’s not exactly a happy reunion. With their emotions running high over the seemingly intractable problem of her nearly depleted lifespan, they’re all too quick to give in to anger. Meanwhile, as the Minamoto brothers have a spat of their own, No. 6 shows up out of nowhere―and he’s out for blood…