Mystery - Page 193

From: Easy Going Scans Mia has a special talent which she didn’t know she had until recently. If she concentrates, she can transfer in another dimension called “Layers”. That dimension has no people except those that can transfer of course and... The monsters that lurk there! If you accidentally get trapped in “Layers” your only hope is... The Special Class! Original webcomic LAYERS HAS A SEQUEL CALLED LAYERS ANARCHY.

Two mysterious transfer students investigate a school where, in the past two months, three student have fallen to their deaths.

Sagimiya Makage is new to an all girls school and doesn't feel like she will fit in. However, at the entrance ceremony someone even more weird than Makage introduces herself as an actual witch doctor who is employed to help with the school's curse.Shrugging it off, Makage later on makes a good friend at the dorms who won't wake up from the curse! How will Makage help her friend, and what is the secret behind this curse anyway?

From Yen Press: When the police discover Laon naked and hungry in the street, they aren’t quite sure what to make of the odd little boy. How could they know that he is actually a nine-tailed fox…or at least he would be if he hadn’t lost his tails in a bet? Now Laon is on a crusade to recover his missing appendages, if other spiritual forces don’t find them first!

Sequel to Kindaichi Kindaichi (frequently with best-bud, Miyuki) travels to various places where a murder has taken place, typically involving ghosts, curses, myths and folklore of significant events from the distant past, and solves the mystery using ingenious deductions of curious clues and his cool magic.

From Tokyopop: Eiri Kurahashi is an art school student, with a job at a local antique store. It's there that he develops a strange obsession. He finds himself entranced by a portrait of a Victorian-era girl named Cossette. It's a portrait with a strange history--everyone who has owned it has been murdered in a bizarre fashion. But the story runs much deeper than that. Cossette was savagely murdered by her lover, who also happens to be the artist who painted the portrait. When the new owner of the portrait nearly kills himself, Eiri decides to get involved. And that's when Cossette begins speaking to him...

14-year-old Eriko finds herself left in charge of her younger brother Daigo when their parents suddenly disappear one warm summer evening. Trapped in a world that is very much like their own save for the lack of their parents, Eriko and Daigo find themselves desperate to return to the worrywart mother and apathetic father they never thought they'd miss so badly...

16-year-old Asakawa Tomoki, being a bishoujo all his life despite being male, has finally received the ulimate confession... from a vampire.

A girl runs away from home, pretending to have been kidnapped.

[Otome Cafe & Maid Latte] The Guardian with rabbit ears proclaims the sad truth. "If your lost memories are not recovered, your soul will be destroyed." And so our protagonist Minori naturally begins to search for her lost memories. Little by little, the shocking truth becomes clear. Minori is actually...? A bus accident occurs with one of the twin sisters dying. Shiori and Minori fight over one body to be able to return to the real world with the help of their spirit guardians. The one to collect the most memories wins.

[From Manga-Sketchbook]: Female assassins mix sex and death in a pair of hard-boiled well-drawn film-noir stories of love and murder. From Baka-Updates: Two linked stories, both revolving around a deadly female assassin. In Hotel Harbour View, a Japanese expatriate in Hong Kong spends his time drinking whisky, photographing a high class prostitute and waiting for death at the hands of the assassin he knows is coming for him. In Brief Encounter, a notorious Parisian assassin is himself marked for assassination and his hunter is no stranger to him.

Hieda-sensei is a professor of archeology, with a fervent belief in the existence and power of supernatural creatures like gods and demons. Since he can't prove anything, his belief has earned him the mocking nickname "Youkai Hunter" from his colleagues. One day, two men from Ootori-chou come to visit him. They're planning to promote tourism by reviving their town's old, traditional "Demon Festival," which has been discontinued for the past century. They're basing the festival on Hieda's research, although they're changing a few details to make it flashier for modern sightseers. Although Hieda is troubled by the history of human death associated with the festival, he agrees to attend as an advisor. When the Demon Festival turns out to be much more 'historically accurate' than anyone ever dreamed, it will take all of Hieda's knowledge and courage to help set things right!