Phantom Busters manga graduates to a 2027 TV anime
Neoshoco's Phantom Busters, the Kamakura exorcism manga serialised in Shueisha's Jump SQ., is being adapted as a TV anime for 2027 after passing 1.4 million copies in print.
The spirits are getting evicted. Phantom Busters, Neoshoco's Kamakura-set exorcism manga, is being adapted as a TV anime for 2027, with a new official site and X account opening on 24 September to announce it.
The announcement is short on production detail and long on relief. The site confirms the 2027 broadcast, states that the manga runs in Shueisha's Jump SQ. and has passed 1.4 million copies in print including digital editions, and adds that volumes one to seven are on sale. The copyright line credits Neoshoco, Shueisha and the series' own production committee.
A boy who eats ghosts, and the club he starts
The manga follows Mogari, a high-schooler with the power to devour spirits who leaves a household of strict traditions behind for an ordinary adolescence in Kamakura, only to be handed the job of clearing the city of its ghosts. A run-in with Koreshiki, a top student who flatly refuses to believe in spirits, pushes him into founding the Phantom Busters, an exorcism club. Joining them are Zaki, a manga obsessive who can see the dead, and Tamon, who can talk to ghosts but would rather not talk to people.
Neoshoco marked the news with a comment thanking readers for making it happen, and adding that the series should be even more entertaining once the characters are moving rather than posed on a page.
What we do not know yet
Rather a lot. No studio, director, cast, broadcaster or streaming partner has been named, and the date is 2027 with no season, cour or slot attached. There is no promotional video. Everything beyond the adaptation itself and the manga's sales figures is still to be announced.
Our opinion
An exorcism club comedy is one of the safer bets in adaptation, because the appeal sits in the bickering and the bickering survives any budget. What 1.4 million copies buys Phantom Busters is the right to be made at all; what it cannot buy is a director willing to let the cast be funny instead of polishing every ghost until the jokes fall out. The Kamakura setting is the asset to watch, since a town that recognisable can carry the series further than its spirits do.