地縛少年 花子くん / Jibaku shōnen Hanako-kun Series by AidaIro, Aida Iro, Philip Christie

The origin of AidaIro’s masterpiece! Toilet-bound Hanako-kun was originally published in Monthly GFantasy as a self-contained short series, and you can read those three chapters here along with AidaIro’s debut work, “The Beloved Living Dead.” Come and see where it all began!

"Hanako-san, Hanako-san...are you there?" At Kamome Academy, rumors abound about the school's Seven Mysteries, one of which is Hanako-san. Said to occupy the third stall of the third floor girls' bathroom in the old school building, Hanako-san grants any wish when summoned. Nene Yashiro, an occult-loving high school girl who dreams of romance, ventures into this haunted bathroom...but the Hanako-san she meets there is nothing like she imagined! Kamome Academy's Hanako-san...is a boy!

Nene Yashiro has made a pact with "Hanako-san of the Toilet" aka Hanako-kun to hold off the curse that has been placed on her. To rescue her friend from the clutches of one of the school's infamous Seven Mysteries, she and Hanako-kun infiltrate the Misaki Stairs. Presenting the second volume of the retro horror romantic comedy--about an occult girl and an inhuman supernatural boy!

Nene and Kou want to learn more about their mysterious friend, Hanako-kun--and what better way to do that than school mystery number five, The 4pm Bookstacks! The rumors say that a secret door in the library leads the way to a supernaturally special collection. The Bookstacks know everything about everyone who's ever 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!

Continue the adventure of the school's Seven Mysteries with Hanako-kun, Nene, and Kou! Read the next volume of Toilet-bound Hanako-kun

Nene Yashiro serves as the assistant to the School Mystery Hanako-kun. When she is invited by enigmatic playboy Natsuhiko to a mysterious tea party, she meets Hanako-kun's "girlfriend" and his "little brother"...!? On top of that, she learns that one of the Seven Mysteries is mixed in with her classmates...

Through the workings of the School Mystery Clock Keepers, Kamome Academy's entire student body is covered in wrinkles!? To restore peace to the school, Hanako-kun teams up with a certain someone. Just when they thought the case was headed to its conclusion, the secret of Hanako-kun's assistant Nene is brought to light! What could it possibly be!?

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...!?

It's been three days since they returned from the School Mystery Three, the Hell of Mirrors. To cheer up the depressed Kou, Nene heads to the Boundaries' Tanabata festival. She was supposed to be enjoying the festival with Hanako-kun and Kou, but suddenly she finds herself in the world 50 years in the past. And who should she meet there but Hanako-kun when he was alive!?

That day, Nene went to school as usual, but found Hanako-kun acting like one of her normal classmates...!? She seems to be the only one who notices anything amiss, seeing as Hanako-kun was supposed to be a ghost...! Hunting for the truth, she heads to a mysterious tower. Fact and fiction clash in this Seven School Mysteries ghost story!

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 Number Four'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 as well-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 overcome this ghost's regrets and self-loathing to 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. And to make matters worse, Hanako-kun is pulling out all the stops to keep them from leaving...

Nene and Akane are rescued from the clutches of a horde of supernaturals by School Mystery No. 6...only for him to immediately kidnap Aoi?! With so many School Mystery seats unfilled and the long, dark night of Urabon approaching, she might 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. When they remerge somewhere—or perhaps somewhen—else, they meet a girl named Sumire who seems to have a history with No. 6...

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 boundaries, a search that leads them to the cursed "Red House." Inside, they find a boy who looks just like 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…