Dream Eater Merry (夢喰いメリー, Yumekui Merī) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshitaka Ushiki. The series was serialized in Houbunsha's seinen manga magazine Manga Time Kirara Forward from 2008 to 2020. An anime television series by J.C.Staff which aired in 2011.
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Yumeji Fujiwara is a young male student like any other who, after an event that occurred 10 years previously, gained the power to see the aura of other people's dreams, and the ability to predict what kind of dream they will have next. Since then, he has started to have strange dreams of cats following him for an unknown reason. The boss of the cat army, John Doe, tells him that his body is needed to access the real world. One day, a mysterious girl fell on top of him as he was returning home from his errands. This girl, named Merry Nightmare, is a dream demon (夢魔, muma), searching for a way to return to her world. Yumeji decides to help her, and a gate to the world of dreams opens again, this time in full daylight. She appears in the daydream world looking for an answer on how to get back to her world. Meanwhile, an evil dream demon named Pharos Hercules is leading other dream demons to make humans into their vessels to raise an army, killing those that oppose him which causes humans to lose sight of their goals and ambitions. Yumeji eventually becomes Merry's partner, using his ability to scout out dream demons so Merry can hunt them.
After Hercules' downfall, Merry's quest to return to the dream world continues. In the meantime, a mysterious boy named Kyou Shiragi transfers to Yumeji's class, where dream demons are suddenly manifesting; as a result of their losses, they cause humans to accomplish their goals instead of destroying them. With dream demons seen by previous vessels, Yumeji and Merry now must investigate this unusual phenomenon and restore balance. It is revealed that Yumeji and Merry met 10 years previously when an incident occurred in the dream world. During the school cultural festival, a powerful dream demon in the form of Kyou and his minions attempts to disturb the balance of both worlds. The pair and their companions fought together to send the adversaries back through the doorway, repairing it, and everything the dream demons have touched becomes undone. Knowing they will forget each other, Merry bids Yumeji farewell with a kiss. Sometime later, Yumeji and his friends still remember Merry and others by heart, and Yumeji started writing a book based on their recounted adventures.