Rikuo's caught between two lives that want different things from him, and the show doesn't pretend that picking one means losing the other forever. The yokai clan governance angles give you actual stakes, betrayals matter because you know these spirits, not because the plot needs drama. Jun Fukuyama makes the night form feel like a completely different person wearing the same skin, which sells the premise harder than any transformation sequence could. The pacing stumbles when it tries to stretch arcs that should breathe, but when it locks into Rikuo choosing between duty and normalcy, nothing else on the shounen shelf does that conflict this honestly.

Rikuo Nura lives a double life he never asked for. By day, he seems like an ordinary middle school student. By night, he transforms into the powerful leader of the Nura clan, a household of yokai of every shape and size. Part human and part yokai, he is the grandson of the legendary Nurarihyon, who wants Rikuo to succeed him as head of the clan. Instead, Rikuo wants a normal human life. Normal is hard to find, though. His yokai attendant attends school beside him under the name Tsurara Oikawa, the young onmyouji Yura Keikain adds to the complications, and his friend Kiyotsugu is obsessed with proving that yokai exist. When rival yokai and other forces threaten the people he cares about, Rikuo must accept his heritage to protect them. The series pairs supernatural action with the backdrop of ordinary school life.