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Bakemonogatari

Also known as Bakemonogatari: Monster Tale.

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

The first part of the Monogatari Series.

There’s a girl at their school who is always ill. She routinely arrives late, leaves early, or doesn’t show up at all, and skips gym as a matter of course. She’s pretty, and the boys take to whispering that she’s a cloistered princess. As the self-described worst loser in her class soon finds out, they just don’t know what a monster she is. So begins a tale of mysterious maladies that are supernatural in origin yet deeply revealing of the human psyche, a set of case files as given to unexpected feeling as it is to irreverent humour.



Note: The English release and the JP ebook edition have Bakemonogatari split across three volumes, instead of the original two volumes.

Tags: Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Vampire , Gods , Meta , Achronological Order , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Ghost , Primarily Female Cast , Dissociative Identities , Denpa , Heterosexual , School , Ensemble Cast , Tomboy , Nekomimi , Shounen

Katanagatari

Also known as KATANAGATARI.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Romance

A swordless “swordsman” and a self-described “schemer” who embark on a quest to obtain twelve peculiar masterpiece blades. Featuring a gatefold color insert, beautiful interior art, and copious bilingual footnotes, this hardcover edition is the first of a quartet scheduled to collect the entire original run. Brimming with action, romance, and unexpected wisdom, often as tongue-in-cheek as The Princess Bride, and shot through with ninjas, samurais, and secret moves, Sword Tale is Musashi for a new generation and a gift for any fan of adventure.



Tags: Swordplay , Male Protagonist , Slapstick , Surreal Comedy , Anachronism , Philosophy , Tragedy , Parody , Politics , Revenge , Ninja , Historical , Meta

Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria

Also known as The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural , Thriller

Kazuki Hoshino treasures nothing more than his ordinary life, and March 2 should have been an ordinary day. The arrival of a transfer student, the mysterious Aya Otonashi, shouldn't have shattered the world he knows. He's never seen this girl before in his life, but she says she's met him thousands of times--and declares war on him for a crime he can't even remember... As the truth begins to unravel, nothing is as it seems, and at the heart of it all is a wish powerful enough to change everything...



Tags: Anti-Hero , Tragedy , Time Loop , Philosophy , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Dissociative Identities , Achronological Order , Yandere , Bullying , Time Manipulation , School , Heterosexual , Battle Royale , Primarily Teen Cast , Memory Manipulation , Amnesia , Death Game , Gore , Body Swapping , Marriage , Shapeshifting , Yuri , Baseball

Hyouka

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Slice of Life

Oreki Houtarou is a self-proclaimed "energy-saver" - that is, he will not actively waste energy doing things that aren't necessary. Though he had no interest whatsoever in joining any clubs upon entering Kamiyama High School, he was commanded by his older sister Tomoe to enter the school's Classics Club, which was in danger of getting abolished as all previous members have graduated. Together with his old friends Fukube Satoshi and Ibara Mayaka, as well as the elegantly ladylike and curiously inquisitive Chitanda Eru, the newly reformed Classics Club find themselves involved in all sorts of mystery-solving escapades. Houtarou soon finds out that the Classics Club, as Tomoe has promised, is actually "quite interesting".

Note: Book one of the Koten-bu Series.

Tags: School Club , Coming of Age , School , Detective , Classic Literature , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist

Kimi to Boku no Kowareta Sekai

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Psychological , Romance

The first installment of the Sekai Series.

Two siblings in the process of crossing a forbidden line, Hitsuuchi Samatoki and Hitsuuchi Yorotsuki. Two friends, Mukaezuki Hakohiko and Kotohara Ririsu. A locked-room murder at the school cracks their worlds…



Tags: Incest , Meta , Detective , Crime , Philosophy , Tragedy , School , Love Triangle , Crossdressing

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: Magic , Witch , Meta , Tragedy

DEATH NOTE Another Note: Los Angeles BB Renzoku Satsujin Jiken

Also known as Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases.

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Supernatural

There's a serial killer loose in Los Angeles and the local authorities need help fast. For some reason the killer has been leaving a string of maddeningly arcane clues at each crime scene. Each of these clues, it seems, is an indecipherable roadmap to the next murder.

Onto the scene comes L, the mysterious super-sleuth. Despite his peculiar working habits-he's never shown his face in public, for example-he's the most decorated detective in the world and has never tackled a case he hasn't been able to crack.

But this time he needs help.

Enlisting the services of an FBI agent named Naomi Misora, L starts snooping around the City of Angels. It soon becomes apparent that the killing spree is a psychotic riddle designed to specifically engage L in a battle of wits. Stuck in the middle between killer and investigator, it's up to Misora to navigate both the dead bodies and the egos to solve the Los Angeles Murder Cases.

Tags: Detective , Anti-Hero , Crime , Female Protagonist , Seinen

Boogiepop wa Warawanai

Also known as Boogiepop and Others.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological

There is an urban legend that children tell one another about a shinigami that can release people from the pain they may be suffering. This "Angel of Death" has a name—Boogiepop. And the legends are true. Boogiepop is real.



Tags: Philosophy , Dissociative Identities , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Denpa , Ensemble Cast , Achronological Order , Conspiracy , Agender , LGBTQ+ Themes , Super Power , Primarily Teen Cast , Episodic

Okitegami Kyouko no Bibouroku

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Psychological

The first instalment of the Boukyaku Tantei Series.

Okitegami Kyouko, also known as the forgetful detective. She forgets everything in a day, and solves cases (almost) immediately! An unfortunate young man, Kakushidate Yakusuke, gets caught up in every case and is always the prime suspect! He cries out, "Please let me call a detective—!!!"

A swift development, a fleeting memory.
Will Kyouko-san be able to solve the case before she forgets its details?



Tags: Detective , Amnesia , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast

Kizumonogatari

Also known as Kizumonogatari: Wound Tale.

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

Around midnight, under a lonely street lamp in a provincial town in Japan, lies a white woman, a blonde, alone, robbed of all four limbs, yet undead. Indeed, a rumour’s been circulating among the local girls that a vampire has come to their backwater, of all places. Koyomi Araragi, who prefers to avoid having friends because they’d lower his “intensity as a human,” is naturally sceptical. Yet it is to him that the bloodsucking demon, a concept “dated twice over,” beckons on the first day of spring break as he makes his way home with a fresh loot of morally compromising periodicals.



Tags: Vampire , Tragedy , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Gore , Urban , Body Horror , Age Regression , Shounen