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Kubikiri Cycle: Aoiro Savant to Zaregotozukai

Also known as Decapitation: Kubikiri Cycle.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Mystery , Psychological

A dropout from an elite Houston-based program for teens is on a visit to a private island. Its mistress, virtually marooned there, surrounds herself with geniuses, especially of the young and female kind—one of whom ends up headless one fine morning.



Tags: Philosophy , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Detective , Meta , Primarily Female Cast , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Crime , Hikikomori , Crossdressing , Maids , Gore

Mou Hitotsu no MONSTER

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Details the events of the manga from an investigative reporter's point of view.

Tags: Seinen , Detective , Foreign , Police

Tsukimonogatari

Also known as Tsukimonogatari: Possession Tale.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

Launching the third or “Final Season” of the international cult-hit series, Possession Tale returns the narrator’s headset back to high school senior and amateur savior Koyomi Araragi, who used to eschew friendship once upon a time because it’d lower his “intensity as a human”—a loner’s misgiving that was perhaps on the mark in a different way than he intended.

At issue now is not the precarious fate of one of his cherished confrères, or rather consœurs, whom he’d aid, sight unseen, with a monster’s resilience, but his own aberrant state and its prolonged abuse. If everything comes with a bill, and if no man is an island, then is the price of self-sacrificing amity—and the bloodshed it ironically occasions—becoming inhuman for good?

That being said! Our hero, whose first name means “calendar” but who has none in his room, sees no need to rush, so, on our way to the profound mysteries of the superhuman aspect, expect a super-shallow deconstruction of the alarm clock. On hand this volume to (hardly ever) humor his humor: his little sisters, a living doll of a corpse, and its violent mistress.



Tags: Philosophy , Achronological Order , Vampire , Male Protagonist , Alternate Universe , Primarily Female Cast , Female Harem , Coming of Age , Astronomy , Afterlife , School , Meta , Gods , Urban Fantasy , Detective , Dissociative Identities , Female Protagonist

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

October 4 and 5, 1986. The Ushiromiya family has gathered on the private island of Rokkenjima for their annual family conference. Chief on the agenda concerns the struggle for the inheritance assets of the ailing family head, Kinzo. But as the family is trapped on the island by a typhoon, they receive a letter claiming to be from the rumored witch of the island, Beatrice, and mysterious events begin to occur.

Tags: Witch , Magic , Tragedy , Meta

The Book: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 4th Another Day

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Mystery , Supernatural

The novel is about a normal day in Morioh, from the point of view of a new character named Takuma Hasumi. His stand is called The Book, has the appearance of a normal book, and possesses the power to record everything he sees or feels. Josuke and the rest of the Part IV heroes appear as antagonists.

The story takes place in Morioh, in the year 2000. Three days before the end of winter break. Koichi and Rohan find a blood-stained cat outside a convenience store. They go searching for the cat's owner, and find a woman's strange-looking corpse inside the house. By using Heaven's Door, they find a clue: "a male student with red scratch marks under his arm." Over the span of 3 months, the curtain opens on this incident.

Tags: Achronological Order , Super Power , Shounen , Revenge , Detective

Owarimonogatari

Also known as Owarimonogatari: End Tale.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

Volume 1:
Before we witness the series’ climactic showdown in the third volume of the End Tale—each part of which forms its own cohesive whole—narrator Araragi wrestles with a crucial bit of history that had turned him into the loner we met at the very beginning, who opined that friendships only lowered his intensity as a human.
What initiates his pilgrim’s progress of a reckoning is his first encounter, at school, with the mysterious freshman Ogi Oshino, self-described niece of the equally enigmatic aberration expert Mèmè, and the book’s opening chapter is a harrowing standalone novella of a who-dunit involving a locked room of sorts.
Our increasingly well-adjusted hero kept on beingdecent at one thing even when he was just hanging on, but this forte, an unlikely aptitude for math, of all things, becomes the focus of a cheating scandal and a web of recollections that forces him to come to terms with, what do you know, his capacity to connect to people.

Volume 2:
When an old flame who gave up on life and chose to go up in flames—because he wanted to leave you but couldn’t—comes crawling back after four hundred years, you might not appreciate it, especially if you’re in a new relationship. But nothing’s ever simple between people, and that’s even truer between monsters.
For the first time in months, our heroic loser Araragi is human, parted by previous events from the ex-legendary vampire bound to his shadow. Before he, the second-ever thrall of the former Kissshot, can resume his partnership with the donut-loving waif that she’s turned into, she must make a choice—about that first-ever.
Before the End Tale can end, some loose ends must be tied, and in this volume, the fixer Gaen calls in her favor, requesting an introduction to her niece; the errand of the amulet that Araragi ran with Kanbaru comes into crisp focus; and the time-traveling and -spanning Dandy and Demon Tales see their devastating resolution.

Volume 3:
No good deed goes unpunished, they say, and so does friendship and lowering your intensity as a human, they don’t say—alas, for all his literally painful hustle and inveterate need to save others, our brave fool of a hero ends up in hell, a conception of the inferno in its full Buddhist glory, and muses (lol) if there’s a return ticket.
Told in three chapters, the final part of End Tale concludes the story proper and resolves the series’ panoply of ongoing mysteries: the dues of a do-gooder for relying on a power not his own, the identity of a shady transfer student, the outcome of a class president’s questing abroad, and even the true name of a park.
Araragi, indeed, is the one who knows, but along the way he meets old faces, really every last one of them, who aid him on his journey for understanding, and perhaps for salvation, and you for one might not be surprised if he had another rendezvous with an erstwhile “cloistered princess” before it—guess what it is—sees an end.



Tags: Philosophy , Achronological Order , Coming of Age , Detective , Vampire , Urban Fantasy , Tragedy , Primarily Teen Cast , Afterlife , Primarily Female Cast , Heterosexual

Kubishime Romanticist: Ningen Shikkaku - Zerozaki Hitoshiki

Also known as Strangulation: Kubishime Romanticist.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mystery , Psychological

Now that he’s a cool college student, our anti-hero Iichan thinks his crime-solving days are behind him. Cynical, sarcastic and minimally engaged in his studies, Iichan is much more interested in his own feelings of disaffection and isolation. But despite his resolve to remain aloof, he’s pulled into the narrative when he encounters and bonds with a serial killer named Hitoshi Zerozaki – a homicidal maniac with the soul of an artist whose talent is on display at the grisly scenes of his crimes.



Tags: Crime , Philosophy , Anti-Hero , Urban , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Detective , Mopeds , Primarily Adult Cast , Suicide , College , Yandere , Love Triangle

Psycho Logical

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological

Tomo, Neon, Ii, Kyouichirou, Shito, Misachi, Kokoromi, Kasugai, Gaisuke, Jun, Kouta, Houko, Nanami Dead Blue (Tomo Kunagisa) ——is desperate!

"You actually hate Tomo Kunagisa, don't you?"
The genius engineer and former member of Tomo Kunagisa's Team, Gaisuke Utsurigi, is being held captive at a mysterious research facility—Kyouichirou Shadou (Mad Demon)'s Research Institute. Accompanied by her friend Ii—aka the Nonsense User, Iichan—are on their way to rescue Utsurigi, but are met with a horrifying "scene" that unfolds before their eyes. However, this "end" is only a taste of the "beginning" to come——!



Tags: Male Protagonist , Gore , Detective , Crime , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Philosophy

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Over Heaven

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Supernatural

Written and presented as the lost transcript of Dio's Diary, featured in Stone Ocean. In the book, he reflects upon his battles throughout the original series, describes his ideals and plans for "obtaining heaven" and talks about the concept of death, as well as his unfortunate mother.

Tags: Philosophy , Autobiographical , Vampire , Super Power , Foreign