Youkai Apartment no Yuuga na Nichijou
Elegant Yokai Apartment Life

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Youkai Apartment no Yuuga na Nichijou beggins as a cozy story about a teenage boy struggling with family affairs. It follows a nice pace, with an overall wholesome story filled with supernatural events (which adds some flair, although it never gets too scary). It does, though, at some point, mixed with the usefull life advices destined for a young audience, mix in some honestly full blown boomer logic that feels a bit odd. If you can enjoy some wholesome spirits guiding a teen's self reflection path then go on, to me it felt like the author wanted to rant about "the good old times" and ... just went ahead, pretty closeminded and sometimes even contradictory. In that sense, do not expect great female characters. The male characters, for their part, seem also pretty much copy-and-pasted (whith different looks, they are basically all just good, hard-working, honest men, which is what the author seems to want to get across: "this is how you should be to succeed in life").
All in all, up to chapter 100 and so, I would say it's an okay story to read if you're bored and young (or very old, too); but the story could (and shoul have) ended by then. These last chapters continue the story by covering a time skip for which we already know the resolution so it's getting pretty formulaic.

I have mixed feelings for the art as well, a lot of effort is put on the male characters and making certain things look luxurious, but i don't know. It's not my style but i get that's a personal viewpoint. It's not bad though.

Overall, I could say I enojoyed this up to chapter 50 or so, then it started to get repetitive and more blunt about certain let's say "old school" viewpoints that could be thinked of differently. If you don't mind this or know a kid who is looking up something nice to read, go ahead.