Volume 1

Volume 1 is the 1st volume of Kemono Jihen manga series.

Description
In a quiet rural village, livestock has been dying off in a strange manner. Inugami, a detective of the occult, is summoned from Tokyo to solve the mystery. He meets a boy scorned by the villagers, who call him Dorotabo after a yokai that dwells in the muddy fields. Inugami soon learns that there is more to the boy than meets the eye…and vice-versa.

Cover Characters
The first volume features Kabane Kusaka on the cover.

Chapters

 * 1. The Dorotabo of the Deer Village (鹿の子村の泥田坊, Kanoko-mura no Dorotabō)
 * 2. Bugs (蟲, Mushi)
 * 3. The Kemono Office (怪物屋, Kemono-ya)

Author Quote
"What should the abbreviation be for "Kemono Jihen"? Kemono? Kemonoji? Kemohen? Monohen? Kemoji? Kemoji's not too bad, right? No good?"

- SHO AIMOTO