The story is set in the human realm (Tokyo's Shibuya ward) and the bakemono realm (Shibutenmachi). In these two worlds which must not intersect, there lives a lonely boy and a lonely bakemono. One day, the boy gets lost in the bakemono world, becomes the disciple of the bakemono Kumatetsu, and is renamed Kyuuta. (Source: ANN)

Bakemono no Ko was published in English as The Boy and The Beast by Yen Press under the Yen On imprint on February 23, 2016; and in Spanish by Planeta Comic under the Timun Mas imprint on March 1, 2016.