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.

Red Garden

GonzoAyamura, Kirihito 2024
Strange suicides have been taking place in New York. One day, four girls from the same high school wake up in the morning feeling tired and dizzy and not being able to remember anything about the previous night. In school, they find out that one of their classmates has committed suicide. School is canceled for the rest of the day, but instead of going home, the girls are drawn to a park by butterflies only they can see. Suddenly a man and a woman approach the girls, telling them that they all died the previous night. (Source: ANN)
Feb 24, 2007 to Mar 2009 | 30 chp | Publishing

Kaijuu no Kodomo (Children of the Sea)

Igarashi, Daisuke 2024
One summer vacation, Ruka meets two boys, "Umi" and "Sora," whose upbringing contains strange and wonderful secrets. Drawn to their beautiful swimming, almost more like flying, Ruka and the adults who know them are intertwined in a complex mesh...

Meanwhile, an unexplained anomaly is occurring all over the world: fish are disappearing. Thus begins a marine adventure of boys and girls to captivate all the senses!
Dec 24, 2005 to Sep 24, 2011 | 43 chp | Publishing

Discommunication

Ueshiba, Riichi 2024
Arika Togawa doesn't understand why she has fallen in love with her classmate, Takamori Matsubue. She hardly knows him. Together they decide to find out how two strangers can fall in love.

"Why do people fall in love?" Several wonderful but strange love stories based on this eternal mystery are told in this "Truly Mysterious Love Manga."

(Source: Kodan Club)
Dec 25, 1991 to Jan 25, 1999 | 76 chp | Publishing

Discommunication: Seirei-hen

Ueshiba, Riichi 2024
Takaomi and Arika meet a young girl named Tsugumi Yoshimoto who has been asleep since an incident that occurred when she was a child. What happened in her past? And can she be cured? The couple try to solve this mystery with the help of the Mishima sisters--Toko and Rinko, who are Yume Tsukai (dream messengers) with the uncanny ability to control dreams. What is the truth behind this mystery?

This is a prelude to Riichi Ueshiba's next work, Yume Tsukai where Mishima sisters make a comeback as main characters.

(Source: Kodan Club)
May 25, 1999 to Sep 25, 2000 | 17 chp | Publishing

Yume Tsukai

Ueshiba, Riichi 2024
An ordinary, quiet town is shaken by a series of bizarre happenings brought about by the darkness in human hearts. There are no solutions in the real world: Only "Dream Messengers" can find the answers. Dream messengers connect the fabulous with the real and control the power of dreams. Their leader, Mishima Touko, works with 8 other messengers using the powers given by an old spell and a toy made by Touko's father. Touko, her younger sister Rinko, Tachibana Hajime, who loves young girls, and the six other Dream Messengers are given the names of days or stars - Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Raff and Keito.

(Source: KodanClub)
Jan 25, 2001 to Dec 25, 2003 | 36 chp | Publishing

Hakkenden: Touhou Hakken Ibun

Abe, Miyuki 2024
Five years ago, almost every villager of Ootsuka died due to a tragic plague. But mysteriously enough, three survivors: a girl and two boys, emerged. Now living in a church, the three live in isolation, hidden from those who may seek to find them. Shino, one of the survivors, has control over the power of Murasame, the blade of life. But when the imperial church seeks to take the Murasame for themselves, their peaceful life becomes a thing of the past...

(Source: Bliss)
Jun 20, 2005 to ? | chp | Publishing

Shin Lupin IIILupin III: World's Most Wanted

Monkey Punch 2024
Monkey Punch's classic super-spy, Lupin III, returns in an all-new series of action, adventure and intrigue. Join Lupin and his fellow partners-in-crime, Jigen, Goemon, and Fujiko for a whirlwind, thrill-a-minute world tour filled with bombs and bombshells, lovers and liars, high crimes and misdemeanors, and the rest of the unusual suspects that create the lunacy that is Lupin III.

(Source: Tokyopop)
Jun 23, 1977 to 1981 | 180 chp | Publishing

Tamara

Souryo, Fuyumi 2024
Tome dreams of becoming a famous fashion designer. She's on the right track, working for some big-shots, and then Tamara gets dumped on her. While Tamara may be a famous beauty on the run-way, in her normal, daily life, the supermodel is self-centered, obnoxious, bossy, and an utter leech. However, when the bearer of a "cursed" necklace dies at a fashion show, is Tamara the only help Tome will get to solve the mystery? (Source: Storm in Heaven)
2004 | 3 chp | Publishing

Hanasakeru Seishounen

Itsuki, Natsumi 2024
A very powerful industrialist directs his daughter to pick a husband from three candidates he has chosen for her. They are to come into her life, and their uniqueness would cause her to recognize them immediately. The story revolves along the lines of a power political mystery involving a small middle eastern country. One thing that comes to mind is the author’s ability to establish strong moods by a close up of a character’s expression. All three of the candidates are outstanding. Well, it’s actually four.
1987 to 1994 | chp | Publishing

Z

Aoike, Yasuko 2024
The adventures of Agent Z, the newest recruit to Major Eberbach's alphabet soup of subordinates. These stories take place in the Eroica universe, but they are serious espionage adventure tales and Dorian and his crew do not appear.
(Source: Eroica Fans)
Aug 1979 to 1985 | 7 chp | Publishing

Gyakuten Saiban: Turnabout Crossover

Suekane, Kumiko 2024
Promotional manga based on the hit Phoenix Wright videogame series by Capcom.
This fifty page manga was released along with a limited edition version of GS:YG (PW:AA to English-speaking countries) in Japan. It features two sections, one focusing on Phoenix and one on Edgeworth, as they meet at a television studio.
(Source: MU)
2005 | 2 chp | Publishing

Midnight Eye GokuuGoku: Midnight Eye

Terasawa, Buichi 2024
Gokuu is an ordinary private eye for hire. While working on a case involving an illegal weapons dealer, he notices a lot of the detectives working on the case committing suicide for no apparent reason. After Gokuu gets a little too close to the truth, he is then put in a situation where he must stab out his left eye to avoid certain death. Gokuu then awakens in a mysterious lab where an unknown scientist replaces his eye with a cybernetic one that allows him to control every computer in the world.
1987 | 6 chp | Publishing

Gosick

Sakuraba, KazukiAmano, Sakuya 2024
Kujo Kazuya is studying abroad in Sovuria (a fictional country in Europe), where he meets the mysterious Victorique. Possessing a brilliant mind, which she calls "fountain of wisdom," she seems to know everything, although she never attends classes and is restricted to her room and the schools library.

(Source: taken from the light novel summary)
Dec 8, 2007 to Apr 9, 2012 | 29 chp | Publishing

Ghost Logic

Hamanaka, Akira 2024
Yumeko is a girl obsessed with the occult, but her best friend Satoru is a skeptic. But then, Satoru dies and comes back as a ghost that only Yumeko can see.
(Source: MU)
Apr 14, 2004 | 1 chp | Publishing

Nanairo Inko

Tezuka, Osamu 2024
Rainbow Parakeet is a genius actor and a fantastic mimic, but also a thief. He can act out any role to the best of his abilities, while robbing the richest members of the audience during his performances. His methods are a mystery, even to the detectives charged with apprehending him: Police Inspector Senri and his daughter, Police Detective Mariko Senri.

(Source: Wikipedia)
1981 to 1982 | 47 chp | Publishing

Soil

Kaneko, Atsushi 2024
Something strange is going on in "Soil New Town." The sudden disappearance of a seemingly normal family leads the two detectives Yokoi and Onoda to the idyllic town in the middle of nowhere. What looks like a routine case at first quickly turns into a complex and deadly riddle where nothing is what it seems to be. Will the two disparate investigators manage to solve the mystery before it's too late?

(Source: MU)
Mar 12, 2004 to Nov 12, 2010 | 90 chp | Publishing

Hana to Akuma

Oto, Hisamu 2024
Two winters have passed since the high-ranking demon Vivi left the demon realm and came to the human world. Although he is pleased by its peacefulness, the tranquility of the surface quickly bores him. However, his peaceful lifestyle is soon interrupted after he returns one evening to see a crying child outside of his front gate. He decides to take in the abandoned girl and names her "Hana" on a whim—keeping her for mere entertainment and as a way to kill time. Unconcerned about the future, he pledges to abandon her if she becomes troublesome.

Fourteen years later, Hana continues to mature and grow on Vivi. Perplexed by her unwavering loyalty, he remains unsure of his feelings toward her. Can he really continue to maintain his old, unconcerned facade?

[Written by Animeranku Rewrite]
Oct 20, 2007 to Nov 20, 2010 | 58 chp | Publishing

A Girls

Tamakoshi, HiroyukiItabashi, M 2024
Kazao is happy with his life on Mirai ("Future") Island. Sure, his parents abandoned him after he was born, leaving him to be raised at the orphanage-like facility, but his life is comfortable and has his friends, especially the lovely Eiko, the girl he loves. One night, however, he has a horrible nightmare where he sees himself die in a motorcycle accident. After that, everything changes. The next day, his parents are miraculously "found" and he is torn from his idyllic life and Eiko's side to be thrust into a world he knows only from television shows and school assignments. Dropped unceremoniously in the middle of a city with only a sketchy map for guidance, Kazao is saved from wandering aimlessly in search of his new home by the cute and forward Yuu, who turns out to be in his class at his new school as well. Despite his best efforts to accept his parents' sudden return and Yuu's friendly overtures, Kazao can't shake the feeling that things aren't quite right. Nor can he forget Eiko. Why did his parents wait sixteen years to call him back? And why is the piano the only used piece of furniture in his parents' new house? The mysteries begin to pile one atop the other as the lies fall apart in this intriguing story of future possibilities and innocent romance.

(Source: Animescans)
2003 to 2004 | 15 chp | Publishing

B-Eyes

Shiomi, Chika 2024
With pitch black eyes, Kazuya Shidou is able to show illusions to whoever meets his gaze. If he wishes to, he can even kill people with the sheer terror brought on by these visions. He assumes that his eyes are the reason he was abandoned in New York as an eight-year-old child, but he cannot be certain. He has no memories of his parents or childhood aside from a vague recollection of previously living in Japan.

Ever since Kazuya was picked up off the streets, he has worked as a contract killer alongside his feral partner Keith Grangrey. More valuable than the cash he earns from murders is the promise of information turned up by an ongoing investigation into his past. Coincidentally, the two's targets are usually thugs and other low-life criminals; however, they must also eliminate any witnesses to their killings, whether innocent or not. Kazuya has lost count of the number of his victims and has never shown remorse before now—but it seems his feelings have slowly been changing.

[Written by Animeranku Rewrite]
2000 to ? | 17 chp | Publishing

Bus Gamer

Minekura, Kazuya 2024
This is a re-write of the original Bus Gamer manga.

Toki Mishiba, Nobuto Nakajo, and Kazuo Saitou are hired to play the Biz Game, a game much like capture the flag, only with company secrets and insane amounts of money involved. At first they think it's a crazy but fun way to get some money, but as the game goes on, they hear stories about mysterious deaths on the news, and recognize the victims as members of the teams they've beaten in the game. When one of the losers of a game dies right in front of them, they realize what is really at stake—their very lives!

(Source: MU)
Mar 9, 2006 to Apr 9, 2009 | chp | Publishing

CLAMP Gakuen Kaikigenshou Kenkyuukai Jiken FileCLAMP School...

CLAMP 2024
Join the five students that make up the "CLAMP School Paranormal Investigators" on their misadventures as they undercover the supernatural truth behind paranormal events on CLAMP Campus.
1995 to 2000 | 7 chp | Publishing

Death Note Another Note: Los Angeles BB Renzoku Satsujin Jik...

Obata, TakeshiNISIO, ISIN 2024
A serial killer terrorizes the streets of Los Angeles. This brilliant psychopath commits seemingly perfect murders, brazenly challenging the police with cryptic riddles. The enigmatic and world-famous detective L has been hired to crack the case. However, to keep himself out of the public eye, L seeks out FBI agent Naomi Misora to carry out the investigation for him.

Misora agrees to aid L's endeavors, but soon finds herself caught up in an intense battle of wits between L and the culprit. Who is this mysterious killer, and why do they leave clues for the LAPD to decipher? Death Note Another Note: Los Angeles BB Renzoku Satsujin Jiken follows Misora on her journey to solve these mysteries and bring the indiscriminate murders to an end once and for all.

[Written by Animeranku Rewrite]
Aug 1, 2006 | 7 chp | Publishing

C-blossom: Case 729

Fukui, HarutoshiShimotsuki, Ka 2024
Matsumiya Kana's world is turned upside down when her father is arrested on charges of embezzling from the Ministry of Defense. She decides to escape the trauma by transferring to a private boarding school, but trouble follows...

Megane bishounen Kisaragi Kou gets Kana to open up to him, but what's this?! He isn't really who he says he is? And who's the dude in the trucker's cap lurking outside her window? Welcome to C-blossom -case729- a series with action, intrigue, and well...a plot.

(Source: Condensation)
Apr 28, 2005 to Oct 28, 2005 | 4 chp | Publishing

Drug-On

Saitou, Misaki 2024
It's said that on a prohibited island called "Dragon's Beak" the "power of the gods" resides. Anyone who obtains the power will have all their wishes fulfilled.

(Source: Storm in Heaven)
Oct 30, 2006 to Jan 30, 2009 | 31 chp | Publishing