Shadows House

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by the duo Somato. It has been serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump since September 2018, with the chapters collected in fifteen tankōbon volumes as of October 2023. An anime television series adaptation produced by CloverWorks aired from April to July 2021. A second season aired from July to September 2022. Plot In a grandiose and dark mansion live the denizens of the Shadow House, attended by their Living Doll partners who endlessly clean the soot their masters emit. Emilico, a young and cheerful Living Doll, is delighted to start serving her mistress Kate. As the two grow closer and are slowly exposed to various events within the House, they start to discover a number of dark secrets. Characters Living dolls Living Dolls are the servants of the Shadows, with each Shadow master having their own Doll. The Doll and their master have an identical silhouette and differ merely in their presence (or absence) of a face and their clothes. The Living Dolls are revealed to be humans that have all been abducted from a place called Mirrorside Village next to the Shadows House. Due to the Shadows House's production of charcoal for the village as an energy source, the villagers are all brainwashed into believing that letting their children work for the House is an ultimate bliss. All children from the village are trained by the school to be selected for by the third-floor Shadows, with the exception of Emilico.