"Not a garden variety specter" — In/Spectre Volumes 1-6 by Kyo Shirodaira and Chashiba Katase

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Both touched by spirits called yokai, Kotoko and Kuro have gained unique superhuman powers. But to gain her powers Kotoko has given up an eye and a leg, and Kuro’s personal life is in shambles. So when Kotoko suggests they team up to deal with renegades from the spirit world, Kuro doesn’t have many other choices, but Kotoko might just have a few ulterior motives...

Well this was weird.

A teenager is recruited to be a “god of knowledge” for yokai, trading an eye and a leg for the ability to see and command them, and uses her power (and those of a young man who might not be entirely human) to... Combat Steel Lady Nanase, the violent ghost of a dead idol, who is terrorising a city with a steel beam?

Yeah, the premise of where this manga started and where it ended didn’t quite gel.

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