Mystery (351)

Whether its solving a crime or finding an explanation for a puzzling circumstance, the main cast willingly or reluctantly become investigators who must work to answer the who, what, why, and/or how of the current dilemma. The narrative of mystery stories is always on collecting evidence, identifying suspects, and theorizing possible scenarios for the unexplainable, before finally capturing the perpetrator or resolving the current situation. Almost always, the audience has the same information as the main characters and anticipation is directed towards discovering the explanation, not what will transpire after the answer is found. Contrast with Suspense or Horror where often the audience has more information than the cast, which heightens the tension or fear of what will happen next.

Detective Conan Tokubetsu-hen

Abe, YutakaAoyama, Gosho 2024
Short stories drawn by Aoyama's assistants which do not belong to the main plot.
1997 to ? | chp | Publishing

Book ClubReading Club

Seo, Yoon Young 2024
"For those who have courage…for those who do not fear death…open this book and turn the page!” goes the magazine in which this manhwa is serialized in. And for good reason. Peek into the horror within this particular book club. The president Kyungdo is a crazy maniac about books and while Eunsae tries to protect him from them, he is just so crazy about them. His fate in fact is connected to the legendary library of Alexandria, the greatest library that was ever destroyed, and Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood.
Jan 1, 2006 to ? | 18 chp | Publishing

Jigoku ShoujoHell Girl

Kodaka, NaoEtou, Miyuki 2024
Does hell exist? Only those who have met the Hell Girl, Ai Enma, know for sure. It is said that if someone accesses the Hell Correspondence website at midnight, they can type in the name of the person they hold a grudge against—and, subsequently, Hell Girl will take that person to hell.

However, what most people don't know is the price of such an act: in order to send someone to hell, the requester's soul is damned as well. But is any price worth paying to see vengeance exacted on one's enemies?

[Written by Animeranku Rewrite]
Oct 3, 2005 to Aug 2, 2008 | 40 chp | Publishing

Akihabara@DEEP

Ishida, Ira 2024
The story of a group of young otaku forming a company to help others like them in Akihabara.
Aug 12, 2005 to May 4, 2007 | 61 chp | Publishing

Portus

2024
17-year-old high school student Asami Kawakami's friend, Chiharu, has stopped answering her phone and never comes to school anymore. She would rather spend her time playing Portus, an old videogame. There is an urban legend that there is a secret level where a boy appears and asks if you want to go to the other side. If you say yes, you die. When Chiharu cuts her own throat, Asami and the art club teacher, Keigo Sawa, set out to find out the truth behind the legend and Chiharu's suicide.
(Source: MU)
Jan 5, 2006 | 11 chp | Publishing

Missing: Kamikakushi no Monogatari

Midorikawa, ShinKouda, Gakuto 2024
Kyouichi Utsume, a.k.a. "His Majesty, Lord of Darkness," is a dark and compelling mystery—so much so that his fellow Literature Club members would rather discuss him than books! When "His Majesty" vanishes in front of their very eyes, his friends are left with several unanswered questions: what is the source of Kyouichi's long-standing obsession with the "other side"? And just who is Ayame—the eerily ghostlike girl Kyouichi brought to school as his girlfriend the day before he disappeared?

(Source: Tokyopop)
Jul 10, 2001 to Jun 10, 2005 | chp | Publishing

Kenja wa Nemuru: Shinjou Mimei no Houseki JikenboA Wise Man...

Takeuchi, Mick 2024
Miharu is a very good girl, plagued by very bad luck! Her mother has died, leaving her only a single ring to remember her by, and her father's gone bankrupt – leaving her with all of his debts! Intending to sell the ring to pay off those debts and start a new life, Miharu crosses paths with Rintaro, a "jewelry expert" with more facets than the sharpest diamond. Alchemy, mysteries and gems both cursed and stolen all come together in this glittering series of comedy, horror and suspense!
(Source: Go! Comi)
Jan 7, 2002 to Aug 28, 2003 | 10 chp | Publishing

Tobaku Haouden Zero

Fukumoto, Nobuyuki 2024
Ukai Zero saves three troubled teens from a Suicide Website, and together chooses to work as 'Robin Hoods' of society. However, one of Zero's friends are caught by an organization he got in trouble with, and Zero is forced to enter a gambling competition hosted by a rich, rotten old man who is looking for talented gamblers to be his rep player. The reward money? ONE TRILLION YEN.
Sep 5, 2007 to Feb 25, 2009 | 70 chp | Publishing

Shiki

Fujisaki, RyuuOno, Fuyumi 2024
Nothing ever happens in the village of Sotoba. In fact, it is viewed as nothing more than a hick town by its most outgoing and fashionable resident, Megumi Shimizu. She wants nothing more than to live in the city, far away from the villagers and their outdated ways of thinking. So when a new European-style house is built on a hill in the village, Megumi believes its residents must be cultured and refined, so she decides to pay them a visit.

However, Megumi doesn't return home that night. After a grueling search, she is found the next day, weak and anemic, with strange bite marks on her. But Megumi is just the first victim in what will soon become an epidemic in Sotoba as the bodies start piling up. The village doctor Toshio Ozaki, along with the priest Seishin Muroi, the loner Natsuno Yuuki, and the Tanaka siblings Kaori and Akira, begin investigating the strange deaths. But the answer to their predicament may be more than any of them can handle, for soon the dead could outnumber the living.

[Written by Animeranku Rewrite]
Dec 2007 to Jun 3, 2011 | 42 chp | Publishing

Kieli: Shisha-tachi wa Kouya ni NemuruKieli

Kabei, YukakoTeshirogi, Shiori 2024
Born from the corpses of fallen soldiers, the "Undying" are near-immortal beings created for the sole purpose of being weapons. However, after the War came to an end, so did their usefulness, and the Church began slaughtering them mercilessly in the Undying Hunt. Eighty years have passed since then; there are now barely any remnants of the Undying, and those found alive are hunted down by the Church.

Kieli, an orphan studying at a religious boarding school, possesses the unique ability to see spirits. Isolated from her classmates, she spends her days talking with Becca, the spirit of a girl who used to inhabit her room. One day, Kieli runs into an aloof and mysterious individual named Harvey, one of the few surviving Undying. Following an unexpected turn of events, Harvey saves Kieli from being run over by a train, putting himself at risk in the process. Wanting to learn more about Harvey, Kieli decides to accompany him in fulfilling his promise to the Corporal, the spirit of a soldier who died in the War and has since been possessing a radio—the promise to reunite him with his mortal remains.

Throughout their journey, Kieli discovers that beyond Harvey's seemingly ruthless nature lies a kind and thoughtful man tormented by the horrors of war. As the two begin to interact and grow closer, they will develop a bond that they can forever cherish, and Harvey may finally find the warmth that he once lost.

[Written by Animeranku Rewrite]
Dec 6, 2005 to Aug 5, 2006 | 7 chp | Publishing

Mashounen B.T.Cool Shock B.T.

Araki, Hirohiko 2024
The creator of Baoh and JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken presents a manga about magic and mysteries! You'll meet him at 13:13 pm, on Friday the 13th. He'll do an uncanny intro where he plays a trick on you! And wherever he goes, trouble seems to always follow. Who is this person who creates such incidents? None other than Cool Shock BT!

(Source: Project Bite Me! Scanlations)
Sep 20, 1983 to Nov 22, 1983 | 6 chp | Publishing

Rasetsu no HanaRasetsu

Shiomi, Chika 2024
Yakou Hoshino has the ability to create barriers made of water. He then lends his powers to a ‘ghost buster’ company led by a woman named Rasetsu. Though Rasetsu has mysteries of her own including the fact that she’s cursed by an evil spirit, and that she’s the spitting image of Yakou’s guardian ghost.
2005 to 2010 | 36 chp | Publishing

Death Note 13: How to Read - ShinsouDeath Note 13: How to Re...

Obata, TakeshiOhba, Tsugumi 2024
Death Note 13: How to Read - Shinsou is a guidebook which contains the spin-off series Death Note ni Rakugaki 4-koma and the pilot one-shot.
Aug 4, 2003 to May 2005 | 2 chp | Publishing

Meitantei Yumemizu Kiyoshirou Jiken Note

2024
A detective, previously a professor of a college, has moved into the house next to Ai Iwasaki. He's a reader who likes to read so much that he forgot to eat for three days, forgetting his birthday, and even forgetting the cases he has solved. He saw that there are three sisters (Ai, Mai, and Mii) in Iwasaki's house!
2004 to ? | chp | Publishing

Di[e]ce

Saki, OtohYamamoto, Kana 2024
Naruse Kazuki and Koutake Haruki are on the advanced track of Seitoukou Academy.Though they are not connected by blood, these two whose faces are so similar coincidentally have their 16th birthdays on November 11th. However, on that fateful anniversary, the cogs of fate have begun to turn. A game involving both their destinies has now begun!

(Source: Entropy)
Jan 27, 2007 to Sep 28, 2010 | 43 chp | Publishing

El Cazador

Hirose, Shuu 2024
Ellis, a young girl with a bounty on her head, finds herself travelling with the bounty hunter Nadie.

Together the pair head towards the mysterious city of Winay Marka, which holds the secret to Ellis' past.
Mar 19, 2007 to Oct 20, 2007 | 6 chp | Publishing

Mozart wa Komoriuta wo Utawanai

Mori, Masahiro 2024
Set in 1809, this story involves Carl Czerny, Franz Peter Schubert and Ludwig van Beethoven as they attempt to investigate the mystery surrounding Mozart's piece Mozart's Lullabies, driven by the death of a store owner. Want to know more? Want to unravel the mystery?

(Source: Entropy)
Not available | 20 chp | Publishing

Gyakuten Saiban

Kuroda, KenjiMaekawa, Kazuo 2024
A series of extra cases based on the GBA and DS game series.
Aug 11, 2006 to Oct 17, 2008 | 15 chp | Publishing

Forget-me-not

Tsuruta, Kenji 2024
Mariel Imari is a private detective trying to become a first-rate detective to be able inherit her late father's estate. By some strange reason the mysterious thief Vecchio is taking an interest in her. If that's not enough her old friends at Interpol and her siblings makes life more troubling for her.
Sep 22, 2003 | 7 chp | Publishing

Yoru no Houteishiki

Azuki, Kurenai 2024
Saeki Sayoko is more than she appears as she takes a position as academy counselor and school nurse in an all-boys academy. When boys begin to be found dead overdosed on a potent drug suspicion falls on the very beautiful and very buxom Saeki, but more than just drug-dealing is going on after-hours at the academy. Will Saeki find out who is behind the drug-dealing and will she be able to find the people and things responsible in time?
Not available | 8 chp | Publishing

M.C. Law

2024
“Cause trouble in Shibuya and I’ll hear everything.”

Chiryu Mamoru is the former Shibuya Gang King (Crime Boss). Now he’s protecting the streets of Shibuya as the youngest lawyer in history. With an ear piercing as his lawyer badge and law as his weapon, he works to destroy the nest of evil and protect the people. Introducing one lawyer’s all consuming fight against heresy!!

“You can’t protect anything with VIOLENCE… that’s why I choose LAW!!”
(Source: Aerandria)
2005 to ? | 28 chp | Publishing

Umineko no Naku Koro ni - Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Wi...

Natsumi, KeiRyukishi07 2024
Every year, the Ushiromiya family attends a gathering held by the eccentric family head, Kinzou, on the island of Rokkenjima. As his health is failing, most of the family believe he doesn't have much time left. So as a typhoon rages on outside, so too does the storm in their hearts as they squabble amongst themselves over the inheritance and the claim of being Kinzou's rightful heir.

Battler, Kinzou's grandson, has returned to Rokkenjima after a six year absence, expecting the gathering to go smoothly. However, his eccentric grandfather has other plans; he enacts a bizarre game, challenging everyone to find his hidden gold. The one who finds it also receives the most coveted reward of all: the leadership of the family. However, their game is beset with violence and murder when the participants are used as "sacrifices" to revive the Millennial Witch of Rokkenjima, Beatrice.

Ever the skeptic, Battler doesn't believe in the occult. But when so many around him turn up dead, he is forced to question whether it was the work of magic or the machinations of someone among them.

[Written by Animeranku Rewrite]
Dec 22, 2007 to Aug 22, 2009 | 23 chp | Publishing

Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler)

Toboso, Yana 2024
Tucked away in the English countryside lies the ominous manor of the Phantomhives, a family which has established itself as the cold and ruthless "Queen's Watchdog" as well as the head of London's criminal underground. After a tragedy leaves the Earl and his wife dead, many are shocked when their son, a young boy named Ciel, claims his place as the new Earl of the Phantomhive house. At first, many perceive him only as a child surrounded by a few eccentric servants. But they soon begin to realize that it is foolish to meddle with Ciel and his demonic butler Sebastian.

Taking place at the end of the 19th century, Kuroshitsuji follows these two as they face countless mysteries and dangers that plague England and threaten the Queen, uncovering the truth about what really happened to Ciel's parents in the process.

[Written by Animeranku Rewrite]
Sep 16, 2006 to ? | chp | Publishing

Baroque: Ketsuraku no Paradigm

Ueda, Shinshu 2024
The world has been destroyed and twisted due to the actions of one man—at least, that's what Dextera has been told. With grotesque monsters roaming everywhere, he is ordered by the Archangel of the Church of Melct to purify the mad god who dwells in the Neuro Tower; only then can Dextera atone for his sins...

(Source: anime-planet)
Sep 18, 2000 to Jan 18, 2002 | 17 chp | Publishing