Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs

ゆらぎ荘の幽奈さん (Yuragi-sou no Yuuna-san)

7.0(137,408)

MAL Score

Ranked #5019

Popularity #861

Comedy
Ecchi
Romance
Supernatural
Harem

Episodes: 12
Duration: 23 min per ep
Aired: Jul 14, 2018 to Sep 29, 2018
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Yuragi-sou, a former hot springs inn turned low-rent boarding house, sits mostly empty thanks to persistent rumors of a terrifying ghost. That reputation makes it an ideal place for Fuyuzora Kogarashi, a penniless psychic with nowhere else to go—especially since he makes a living dealing with spirits. Expecting a dangerous exorcism, he instead meets the “haunting” firsthand: Yuuna, a gentle, silver-haired ghost who remembers little beyond her own name.

Life at Yuragi-sou quickly proves stranger than the stories, as the other residents can see Yuuna too—and each hides a supernatural talent of their own. Caught between everyday commotion, romantic tension, and paranormal mishaps, Kogarashi sets out to find the lingering regret that binds Yuuna to the living world, hoping to help her move on before her spirit takes a darker turn.

Otaku Consensus

Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs lands as a mid-tier but clearly targeted ecchi harem: Tsuyoshi Nagasawa's direction keeps the 12-episode Xebec adaptation moving briskly through slapstick, exorcism comedy, and boarding-house fanservice without overcomplicating the formula. The strongest hook is the opening horror-comedy bait-and-switch and the supernatural ensemble texture, while the recurring criticism is that the series rarely surprises viewers familiar with shounen harem beats; its 6.97 MAL score, 67/100 AniList score, and 6.7 IMDb rating reflect that split between comfort-food appeal and critical fatigue.

Why You Should Watch

Watch Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs if you want an ecchi harem that treats supernatural gimmicks as a delivery system for jokes, rivalries, and chaotic roommate chemistry rather than heavy horror. It scratches a nearby itch to Love Hina's hot-spring boarding-house setup and To Love-Ru's shameless fanservice timing, but with more ghosts, youkai, exorcism gags, shapeshifting, kemonomimi, and ninja-flavored detours in the mix. The ideal viewer is someone who wants a compact 12-episode shounen romcom with visible nudity, slapstick punishments, and a primarily female cast, without a long commitment or a tonal pivot into melodrama. If predictability bothers you, this will not convert you; if genre fluency is part of the fun, it knows exactly which buttons to press.

Key Characters

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Yuuna(VA: Miyuri Shimabukuro)
Yuuna is the series' soft emotional center, a ghost heroine whose appeal comes less from scares than from the contrast between supernatural status and gentle romcom vulnerability.
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Fuyuzora Kogarashi(VA: Yuki Ono)
Kogarashi stands out in the harem lead role because his psychic-exorcist background makes him proactive in supernatural situations instead of merely being a passive accident magnet.

What Makes It Stand Out

1
Xebec's 2018 TV adaptation compresses Tadahiro Miura's shounen harem material into a single 12-episode cour, which gives the show a fast episodic rhythm instead of a slow-burn romance structure.
2
The supernatural catalog is broader than the title's ghost premise suggests: AniList's high-confidence tags include Ghost at 89%, Youkai at 80%, Exorcism at 79%, Shapeshifting at 75%, Ninja at 60%, and Nekomimi at 58%.
3
The show's fanservice is not incidental packaging; AniList marks Nudity at 82%, and at least one review noted that its 18 rating was driven by the adult ecchi content rather than the horror element.
4
Hideaki Koyasu's series composition keeps the adaptation aligned with recognizable shounen harem grammar: quick misunderstandings, slapstick escalation, and supernatural complications take priority over atmospheric dread.
5
Tomoki Kikuya handles the score, while the opening theme side of the production includes Luna Haruna as performer and Mariko Fujii as composer, giving the series a polished anisong identity despite its trashy-comedy reputation.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: The anime aired during the Summer 2018 season, running from July 14 to September 29, 2018, and finished as a 12-episode TV series rather than a multi-cour adaptation.
Fun fact 2: Its reception numbers are remarkably consistent across major databases: MAL lists it at 6.97/10 from 137,331 votes, AniList at 67/100, and IMDb at 6.7, all pointing to a show liked more as genre comfort food than as a critical standout.
Fun fact 3: Despite a modest MAL rank of #4970, its MAL popularity rank of #860 shows that the series reached a much wider audience than its critical placement alone would suggest.
Fun fact 4: The production credits include Natsuyo Ban for color design and Tsuyoshi Nakano on finishing for episode 10, small but concrete reminders of the finishing and color pipeline behind Xebec's TV ecchi presentation.
Fun fact 5: The German release had Stefan Brönneke as ADR Director, indicating that the series received localized dubbing attention beyond its Japanese broadcast life.