Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 8

Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T. Nanami Momozono is alone and homeless after her dad skips town to evade his gambling debts and the debt collectors kick her out of her apartment. So when a man she's just saved from a dog offers her his home, she jumps at the opportunity. But it turns out that his place is a shrine, and Nanami has unwittingly taken over his job as a local deity! Things at the kami convention in Izumo aren' t going so well. Nanami tried to earn some respect by guarding death' s door while the keeper went off to party. But now she' s stuck in the land of the dead, and the residents seem to have a taste for new kami!

Julietta Suzuki's debut manga Hoshi ni Naru Hi (The Day One Becomes a Star) appeared in the 2004 Hana to Yume Plus. Her other books include Akuma to Dolce (The Devil and Sweets), Karakuri Odette, and Kamisama Kiss (Kamisama Hajimemashita), which is published by VIZ Media.