Midnight Occult Civil Servants

Midnight Occult Civil Servants
The cover of the first volume.
真夜中のオカルト公務員
(Mayonaka no Okaruto Kōmuin)
GenreUrban fantasy
Manga
Written byYōko Tamotsu
Published byKadokawa Shoten
MagazineMonthly Asuka
Original runMay 23, 2015February 22, 2022
Volumes17
Novel
Written byMasumi Suzuki
Published byKadokawa Shoten
ImprintKadokawa Horror Bunko
PublishedJuly 24, 2018
Anime television series
Directed byTetsuya Watanabe
Written byTatsuto Higuchi
Music byEvan Call
StudioLiden Films
Licensed byCrunchyroll
Original networkTokyo MX, SUN, BS11, KBS, TVA
Original run April 7, 2019 June 23, 2019
Episodes12 + 3 OVA

Midnight Occult Civil Servants (Japanese: 真夜中のオカルト公務員, Hepburn: Mayonaka no Okaruto Kōmuin) was a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yōko Tamotsu. The manga has inspired a novelization by Masumi Suzuki, and an anime television series adaptation by Liden Films aired from April 7 to June 23, 2019. The anime series has been streamed in North America by Crunchyroll and Funimation. The series follows Arata Miyako, a newly recruited staff member of the Shinjuku Ward Nocturnal Community Relations Division (NCRD) who possesses the "Ears of Sand", giving him the ability to understand the languages of supernatural creatures called the Anothers. His main role with the Shinjuku Ward NCRD is to maintain relations with the Anothers.