Kodansha serialized the manga in the magazine Morning between March 2011 and January 2020, and chapters were collected in thirty-one tankōbon volumes.

Crunchyroll made the first season of Hozuki's Coolheadedness available to English-speaking audiences via streaming and Sentai Filmworks licensed the series for release on DVD.

The manga and both seasons of the anime have been included at various times in weekly top-ten best-selling lists in their respective media in Japan.

Other characters in the underworld include Okoh (お香, Okō) the chief assistant of Mortal Hell; Mustard (芥子, Karashi), the rabbit from Kachi-kachi Yama, who acts cute but snaps when someone says Tanuki/Raccoon or acts as one; Peach Maki (ピーチ・マキ, Pīchi Maki), a famous idol in Hell and Hozuki's acquaintance; and Yoshitsune Minamoto (源義経, Minamoto no Yoshitsune), a commander in the Crow-Tengu Police.

Momotaro's pets Shiro (シロ) the dog, Kakisuke (柿助) the monkey, and Rurio (ルリオ) the pheasant are also regular characters in the series, working as torturers in the animal cruelty section of hell.

"Ogre") was the model upon which Hozuki, who would first appear in the Morning's 32nd issue of 2010 with the story Jigoku no Sata to Are ya Kore (地獄の沙汰とあれやこれ, lit.

[3] The horror-themed series The Laughing Salesman and the Japanese folktales-based Manga Nihon Mukashi Banashi [ja] also influenced Eguchi, who attributes this childhood experience to her mother being a classical studies professor, and as such she had access to several mythology and folklore books, one of which was Shigeru Mizuki's compilation of 101 yōkai stories.

Eguchi highlighted the influence of the anime adaptation of Mizuki's GeGeGe; she appreciated the characters' scary-but-cute features and their variety in each episode.

Other non-horror works, including Doraemon—especially the main character's bossy personality in the "insane" manga as Eguchi dubbed it, rather than the educational anime, also influenced her.

[3] The manga series Hozuki's Coolheadedness was written and illustrated by Natsumi Eguchi, and was serialized in Kodansha's Morning seinen magazine from March 3, 2011 to January 9, 2020.

[17] From December 1, 2015, to April 3, 2020, the same magazine published a four-panel spin-off that was written by Monaka Shiba and subtitled Shiro no Ashiato (シロの足跡, lit.

[22] The Hozuki's Coolheadedness anime series was produced by Wit Studio and directed by Hiro Kaburaki, with screenplay by Midori Gotō and character designs by Hirotaka Katō.

[34][35] At the Supernova Pop Culture Expo in April 2015, Madman Entertainment announced it had licensed the series[36] and made it available through its streaming site AnimeLab in August 2015,[37] and released a DVD box set on October 21, 2015 in Australia,[38] and on November 12, 2015 in New Zealand.

[70][71] To accompany the anime's return in 2017, a second season titled Motto Hito ni Kibishiku (もっとひとにきびしく) was broadcast from September 15 to December 31.

[112] All six compilations of the anime series appeared on both Oricon's weekly chart of the best-selling DVD and Blu-ray, reaching the top 10 in both categories.

[124][125] The second season of Hozuki's Coolhdeadedness was the fifth most anticipated anime series of Fall 2017 in a poll conducted by Japanese website Charapedia.

[139][140][141] In 2021, the manga, along with Kimi o Shinasenai tame no Storia by Toriko Gin, won the 52nd Seiun Sci-fi Award for Best Comic.

"[149] Nicole MacLean of THEM Anime Reviews also found it similar to Dilbert and salaryman manga, especially on the depiction of Hozuki–Enma relationship.

[148] ANN's Carl Kimlinger found the series generally unfavorable; although he noted its premise as singular, he criticized its music, characters and "comedic incompetence".

[153] Browne commended the series' mixture of modern character designs with classic art style that creates a "unique and appealing look", and said "the animation is generally quite good, if low-key".

[148] Kate O'Neil of The Fandom Post also praised it, stating "the animation is quite superb"[154] and "It's the weird artsy kid sitting in the back row of desks combined with The Office.

Many viewers won't get the appeal, but it's always been a fascinating and often funny watch with a great artistic style and well defined personalities.