The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village



The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village (インテリビレッジの座敷童) is a light novel series authored by Kamachi Kazuma and illustrated by Mahaya, published by ASCII Media Works under the Dengeki Bunko imprint. The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village revolves around Jinnai Shinobu who has the strange trait to attract Youkai.

The light novels span for nine volumes in the main story volumes.

It has been featured in the Toaru Majutsu no Index light novels as they share the same author and publisher.

Plot
Intellectual Villages are old fashioned rural villages recreated with cutting edge technology. Those villages attract the Japanese monsters known as. The high school boy Jinnai Shinobu lives in one of those villages and has a living in his house. He tends to run across Youkai with unnerving frequency and this often leads to trouble for him.

Principal Characters

 * Jinnai Shinobu - Shinobu has had the strange trait to attract and befriend Youkai and other supernatural creatures.
 * Yukari -Yukari is a Zashiwi Warashi who attached to Jinnai Shinobu's household and are said to protect the house and bring good fortune.
 * Uchimaku Hayabusa - Hayabusa has a peculiar trait that often causes him to be antagonized by Youkai.

Mental Out Arc
A restaurant commercial introduced in a section before the start of the Prologue, a first reference to The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village.

Processor Suit Arc
One of the fighting games at the arcade where Accelerator and Mina go is said to be a Youkai battle game, where a Zashiki Warashi, Yuki Onna and other characters fight one another (either by punching or grabbing the other's hair), a reference to The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village.