Dandadan: The Child Between Worlds

Momo Ayase believes in ghosts but not aliens; Ken "Okarun" Takakura believes in aliens but not ghosts - and when a bet to prove each other wrong goes catastrophically sideways, they discover the horrifying truth that both are real, and both want a piece of them. But there's a third student at Kami High who's known that his whole life: Mayoi Ren, the impossibly chill "Cool Boy" who happens to be half-human, half-spirit - the son of a 300-year-old wandering ghost - and who can see every cursed, crawling, otherworldly thing everyone else is running from. Dragged out from behind the doorways he's spent his life leaning against, Mayoi throws his lot in with Momo and Okarun as their days spiral into a nonstop gauntlet of vengeful yokai, organ-harvesting extraterrestrials, cursed body parts, and one loud, self-proclaimed "chosen one" named Aira Shiratori who takes one look at Mayoi and decides he's the boy she's destined to fight beside - whether he likes it or not. It's a story about grief and monsters and speed and severed testicles; about lonely kids who scream at each other because they don't yet know how to say I don't want to be alone; and about learning that the scariest thing in the universe isn't the granny in the tunnel or the alien in the sky - it's actually, unbearably, catching feelings. Ghosts, aliens, and first love, all going a hundred kilometers an hour. Dandadan.