Kogarashi has found himself in need of somewhere to live, and being a poor travelling psychic, he's decided that the most suitable location is Yuragi Inn. It has a remarkably low rent, mainly due to the fact that it's haunted. Fortunately for Kogarashi, he's an exorcist, specialising in getting rid of evil spirits by punching them with his magic fists.
Unfortunately for Kogarashi, the ghost it's haunted by is Yuuna, an attractive but dead woman, who is delighted to discover he can see her (most people can't). And he can't hit a woman. Which means he ends up sharing a room with a ghost.
Of course, this wouldn't be an ecchi harem show if we only had a ghost, so Kogarashi very quickly discovers that the other inhabitants of the inn (innhabitants?) aren't entirely baseline human either. We've got ninjas, oni, tanuki, catgirls, eternally young housekeeping spirits and gods. All of which he occasionally ends up entangled with, none of whom (apparently) like it.
The different characters are impressively varied, and to be honest, you could see most of them as main characters of something else, such that they have a little more life than most harem filler. Unfortunately, the situations they are put in and the way they react to them are straight out of the tropes manual for a harem show. We've got shedloads of tsundere jealous, which is always balanced against persistent obsession over accidental nudity, even when it's not the MC's fault (which it naturally never is).
All of them are desperate to hook up with him, but aren't prepared to admit it either to themselves or him, even when put in dangerous positions, such as going to a water park, attempting to attend school, being kidnapped for use as a sacrificial wife (special two parter), or going on a date. Sorry, is that not cliche enough for you? Would you like the suddenly urgent deadline that the oni mangaka has to complete a manuscript, and that Kogarashi must help her with by role-playing the sexy partner for her romance manga?
God there are so many ways this should have been better. Kogarashi tends to have a collection of esoteric skills because he's spent his life being possessed by obsessives, who needed him to finish their one final task in life. This could have been about him solving actual problems, not simply punching everything. And there's an episode early on that suggests a slightly more interesting horror element, but it never manages to deliver on that promise.
It's light, and if you happen to be unnecessarily interested in the comedy potential of breasts that belong to not entirely human people, it's probably for you. But it's not enough for me that I'm prepared to stick around past the 2/3rds mark.
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