Mystery - Page 52

This story is about a man who steals others' luck by touching them with his bare hands. He takes luck away from those "bad" men who have been doing horrible things and makes their death look like a coincidence. With all this luck, what does he do with it, how does he use it?

Aboard the Advenna Avis in 1711, a group of alchemists summon a demon in the hopes of gaining eternal life. The demon gives them an elixir of immortality and the method of ending their existence by "devouring" one another. Soon after, one among them begins to devour his companions. Realizing the danger posed by staying together, they scatter across the globe. Centuries later in 1930's America, a certain federal investigator tries his best to combat the rise of organized crime during Prohibition, send a particularly infuriating terrorist to Alcatraz, and catch an outrageous thief duo. Meanwhile, the transcontinental train, the Flying Pussyfoot, begins its trail of blood across the country. In 2002, a small group of the original Advenna Avis alchemists are on a journey to find the rest of their fellow immortals. However, there is one companion they did not expect to meet again. Seemingly unrelated events, from a sleepy Italian city in the early 1700's to a modern luxury cruise ship traveling across the Pacific, reveal themselves to be far more connected than anyone could imagine...

First she's hungry, then she's sleepy, but all along she's nothing if not completely useless. And yet, freshman reporter Totoko always seems to get her man! Never mind that she's supposed to be after the story, not the suspect, and that her ill-fated coworker Iriya always seems to bear the brunt of the collateral damage. What's more, there's a master thief on the loose in Tokyo... But leave it to Totoko to get the scoop!

Undercover investigator Matsuzawa Tomoya has a blood-stained past and hidden abilities. His new suspect, Kiryuu Yuuki, is one who looks exactly the same as the bloody man who has been in Matsuzawa Tomoya's mind for the past 15 years.

A series of fairytale-like stories, loosely connected by the ongoing adventures of the enigmatic Hwa Ryungang, a man with strange powers and a connection to the spirit world, and Moohwe, an irrepressible wanderer with a mysterious past.

The village’s most infamous man, Shan Gou, used to go up into the mountains to hunt wild animals every day. Recently, however, something seems to have frightened him so much he isn’t willing to even stay out late at night...

Not only is Charlotte becoming stronger, but Charlie is also changing... Each of them is missing something the other has... But will they be able to help each other out?

From an early age, Xu Shenze would often get caught up in the same strange dream. Over time, the dark shadow that the dream cast over his life grew, until, one day, the shadow became real, and suddenly Xu Shenze's life as he knew it was completely torn to shreds. His parents suddenly meet a gruesome end, and all sorts of other strange and disturbing events kept on happening to him. Alone and afraid, when he hears about a supposed "dream town", he decides to go there to look for answers. In the town that is called both the "Holy Land" and "Purgatory" by its residents, what sort of terrible truths are waiting for Xu Shenze?

From Selene Scans: Murakami and Nakabayashi are just policemen trying to do their jobs. When there is a bomb explosion inside Shuei Primary School, they were asked to do their jobs as policemen and check out the lead. It turns out a doctor from a mental institution called in to warn about the explosion immediately before the bomb went off. And so begins their association with the mental patient with no name who they would eventually call "Maki" For some reason, Maki can "speak" with spirits. There are spirits all around us and Maki can communicate with them. These spirits tell Maki about deep dark things... Things that go on when no one else is looking...

From MangaHelpers: Okitegami Kyouko is a famous detective who solves cases in a single day. In fact, she has to, since her memories only last for one day before they 'reset.' However, for important things, she writes messages for herself down on her body with a special pen. One of her common clients is Kakushidate Yakusuke, a man who is often wrongly suspected of committing crimes. There is also a live-action drama adaptation of this story. [tethysdust] ---------------------------- The original novel's story is about a detective named Kyōko Okitegami who is also known as the forgetful detective. She forgets everything in a day, but solves cases the same day. (Her name has the Japanese word for "today" in it.) An unlucky young man named Yakusuke Kakushidate somehow ends up as the suspect in every case, and he always asks for the detective. [ANN]

When high school student Tsuruta goes in search of a missing cat, he could never have guessed what lies in store for him on the other side of the tunnel...

Werewolf President x Vampire President, who does not know, X City's two largest company's president is a vampire and the other a werewolf, not only that, the two grew up together. In order to be able to catch up with his beloved vampire, the werewolf volunteer to become a vampire assistant and slave, only for the success of the pursuit of his wife, color and taboo urban love began...