Manga 'Kaya-chan wa Kowakunai' Gets TV Anime

It'll probably end up like Dark Gathering. This type of horror manga doesn't translate well into anime. The scary part is your own mind filling up the gaps based on images and anime removes all of that. Now that I think about it, both series suffer from an out of place character. Dark Gathering had the love interest which was more annoying than unsettling and this one has a similarly annoying cliche otaku fan of Kaya. I dropped the manga not long after the introduction of that character.

Isn't the title mistranslated? Shouldn't it be isn't scared?

@Antanaru Not necessarily. Mieruko-chan adaptation sucessfully managed to retain the manga's creepiness afterall (to a point at least). Should Kaya-chan's adaptation managed to do so, then we got ourselves a W. Let's be real tho, horror anime was never creepy, let alone scary (only one anime managed to creep me out so far: Ghost Hunt). So eventhough Mieruko-chan's adaptation is not scary even a bit, but it still managing to retain some of the creepiness from the manga is already a huge W. We can only hope Kaya-chan's adaptation will follow Mieruko-chan adaptation successes.

On another note, I actually like Mobu-san tho... He's fun, just randomly appearing everywhere.... wwwwwww

@uncleqrow Haven't seen Mieruko, so can't comment on this. I think horror manga at best can work as thriller anime. Anime won't be faithful to the source material by giving up on horror but at least it might be entertaining. I don't remember the title anymore, but there was a series with something about vampires in a remote village. It definitely wasn't a horror anymore, more like a popcorn flick, but I remember enjoying myself while watching it.

@Antanaru Mieruko is classic J-Horror, where a significant element of horror is achieved through a sense of despair and inevitability in interaction with the most scary and vile ghost monsters. If you watched the original Grudge before it became a cash cow, you know what I mean. Dark Gathering subjectively worked worse for me, since the stronger anime tropes made it seem like a dark fantasy battle shonen, rather than a classic horror like Mieruko. Although both are seinen manga for the same audience as far as I know. However, with Michiru's current arc, it seems like Mieruko is also trying to become more anime-ish.

@RobertBobert didn't you mean

I don't know abt Dark Gathering, since I don't read/watch it. But, from reading your replies alone, it does feels like it's fans might like Kaya-chan as well, since Kaya-chan do has combat exorcism sequences as well.
And as a side note: Might I also suggest Furyou Tamashi Reina as well (currently not adapted, sadly)? I personally don't consider it a horror, since it wasn't creepy/scary at all (it might actually be considered comedy instead). But it does features combat exorcism, and the charas and the situations they're thrown in are pretty absurd, funny, and interesting as well.

Edit: Furyou Tamashi Reina IS an action-comedy featuring ghosts and exorcism.... MAL doesn't even put the "horror" tag for it, just a simple "supernatural" tag. wwwww