Mystery - Page 85

Side story/prequel to "The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service."Matsuoka Kunio is a writer and anthropologist, but he's much more interested in playing detective. Joined by his long-suffering best friend, a very unorthodox priest, and a boy with the power to raise the dead, he investigates the occult mysteries and murders of early 1900s Japan.

Story about ghost girl and pervy boi.

The distorted memory becomes a masquerade. Everyone hides behind a mask and performs the wildest acts with no consequence. But, life is not a masquerade. The main character is a girl who suffers daily from what she accidentally witnessed 15 years ago. She keeps having flashbacks of a gruesome scene. It always starts with her as a little girl following a black kitten, she then looks ahead and a panther appears!!! The panther then joins the rest of the pack. And then, unaware of the presence of the little girl, the group starts having "fun." The girl becomes horrified by the scene. She makes a noise and they notice her. "Hunt her down! Kill her!" the woman says to the panthers. She managed to escape from the pack, but they got to her parents. In her flashbacks, her parents were chased and fell off a cliff. The authorities told her that it was a car accident. She has lived on the edge of illusion and reality until she sees the photo of 4 successful people in a magazine. A photo is all she needs to confirm what her flashbacks tell her. Now, with the help of a young man she is ready to get even.

From Day of the River: Hisui, who works for the Golden Rooster Theatre Group, was orphaned when her parents were killed in a giant massacre ten years ago and her brother Kohaku was abducted. One day, she is summoned to the Emperor's palace and only agrees to go because she suspects that he is behind her brother's disappearance. Inspired by "The Story of Saiunkoku". From Baka: Hisui, a crossdresser dancer who works for the Golden Rooster Theatre Group, was orphaned when her parents were killed by a group of bandits ten years ago and her brother Kohaku was abducted. When the group performed in the capital, she met with the Emperor who looks like her missing brother. He suddenly summoned her to the imperial palace. Could the Emperor possibly be her long lost brother?!

From Tokyopop: Shima and Kaori are two teenage detectives who have their own odd-jobs agency, Anything Inc. If they take your case, you know your satisfaction will be guaranteed! Shima is a smart kid with a knack for solving other people’s problems. He’s recently lost his parents to an arson’s fire. Now the sight of fire makes him cringe, often reducing the super sleuth into a pool of tears. Kaori, a supermodel, seems an unlikely partner for Shima, but they’ve been best friends since Kaori hired the junior Sherlock to rid him of a troublesome stalker. For some reason, Shima is comfortable mourning in front of the handsome Kaori; on his end, Kaori trusts Shima to help him suppress his over-aggressive modeling persona, Kyo.

When Aoko was four, a meteorite struck her town. It then rained for twenty days straight, and the crater became what’s now known as the Twenty Day Lake. Two decades later, Aoko can’t remember the day the meteorite fell, or anything of her life in the town beforehand. And so she dives deep into the lake, searching for that something in her memories that she can’t let go of…

Eripha is the only girl in the garrison of the World Government's army that is protecting the city of Eldorado from terrorists. After being stationed there for three months she finally warms up to a boy in the same troop, Melka Dracea. But a sudden raid from the terrorists and a close encounter with the leader changes their situation drastically.

A collection of short stories, most of which are centered in a broken world where nothing is as it seems.

From Storm in Heaven: Rakan lives alone, and the plants in his garden grow so thick and fast that it seems like a jungle. One day a man, holding a gun made of wood, falls right down into his garden. He seems to come from another world, and he's searching for someone who can bring back the green into his own dark and inhospitable world.

From Aerandria Scans: A voice echoes through the night - the voice of the boy who hit a girl with his bicycle and ran. The words are curses for the perfect older sister people constantly compare him to... When Na hears the passionate wish made to the moon, she comes down to Earth in the shape of a butterfly to comply with that wish - in return for the sacrifice the butterfly requires.

Continues where Tantei Gakuen Q ended two years later. They are still in Dan Detective School solving cases.

A story about an invisible botanist and a part-time university student, who unravels the thoughts spun by mysterious plants and people.The story of an invisible botanist and a part-time university student, and the strange plants that surround them, begins!Asahi is a university student who is introduced to a new part-time job when a record store closes.The idea is to help a "slightly unusual botanist" who lives in a large mansion in the mountains behind the university.However, on his way to the mansion, he somehow gets lost in the mountains on a single road.In fact, Asahi had a strange experience in his childhood as well.......