MAYHEM AT MISFIT MANSION

Cute monsters work their way through friendship and personal issues as new threats to peaceful coexistence with the nearby human town arise.

Following two years of amicable relations in the wake of the events of Misfit Mansion (2023), the monstrous residents of Mr. Halloway’s Home for Horrors are busily converting their residence into a haunted house in order to host Dead End Springs’ annual harvest festival. Blue-skinned Iris isn’t as happy as she could be, though—not only because as a dreamon created by a human’s nightmare she wonders whether she’s inherently evil, but because she’s being snubbed by her friends Agnes and Kel, who lately always seem to be off in town working on monster fashion designs. Little does she suspect that serious complications are on the way, in the form of the arrival of two highly mercurial Pied Piper Parrots, whose magic songs stir up negative feelings within everyone in earshot, and the return of Anemone Greeves, a monster-hating villain with a fiendish scheme to turn the folk in town into a terrified anti-horror mob. Still, a few intense moments and scary transformations notwithstanding, Iris and her compatriots positively radiate adorability throughout. Strongly evoking chibi-style manga, Davault’s art sets that tone with a brightly colored cast of big-eyed horrors and racially diverse humans.

A sweet take on the theme that differences can be overcome even in the face of self-doubts and mood swings.