2018年のベストミステリーマンガ

Eiji Urashima is just an ordinary university student like everyone else. His college career consists of boozing with his friends and trying to get a girlfriend. On October 23rd, he returns home after a pleasant night of drinking and goes to bed. To his surprise, when Eiji wakes up, a gorgeous girl from his university, Kyouka Yukimura, is lying beside him—claiming to be his girlfriend. Having no recollection of the event, Eiji goes along with the flow until he is faced with more nonsensical events that took place in the last few days. Walking alongside his friend, Kashiwagi, he cannot help but ask the most intuitive question on his mind: is today not the 24th? "Eiji, what are you saying? Today's the 27th." Three days have passed, yet Eiji cannot recall a thing. The situation takes a dire turn when a magazine writer exposes Eiji's deepest secret in front of Kyouka: he is the son of a serial killer. As his life is thrown into a spiral of disarray, he embarks on a journey to resolve the mess of the last three days and get Kyouka to accept his past.

Emilico is just one of many "Living Dolls" serving in the Shadows House, residents of which are pitch black from head to toe and constantly leak soot that stains the house black. Each "Shadow" is partnered with a Doll, which strangely resembles the other. As a Living Doll, Emilico must keep the house sparkling clean as well as act as the face for her master, Kate. In turn, Kate supports Emilico and treats her as her confidant. As far as either of them can remember, this has always been the way their world works. However, the bond between a Shadow and a Doll isn't quite clear. Administrators watch over the young pairs from the higher levels of the mansion and judge them—but for what purpose?

Within the safety of the walls, youths are raised in a nursery-style setting by robots. While life there may appear stale on the surface, the children are full of potential and curiosity. In many ways it is like a slice of heaven. The outside world is a hell-scape. It is almost entirely void of anything mechanical and is now inhabited by bizarre, yet powerful super-natural beings. Maru, with the aid of Kiruko, is out there crisscrossing what was once Tokyo for heaven. But after searching for so long, maybe heaven is more of an untenable dream than a potential reality.

Koyomi Araragi is no stranger to the abnormal. During the spring break of his third year in high school, a fateful encounter with vampire Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade turns him into a vampire himself. Thrust into the world of oddities, Araragi finds himself catching classmate Hitagi Senjougahara when she falls down the school stairs one day—but something is amiss. After being confronted by the girl in question, Araragi learns that her weight was stolen by a mythical crab. In spite of Senjougahara's blunt threats, he manages to convince her to let him help. In need of a solution to an abnormal problem, the two visit the mysterious Meme Oshino, a wanderer who saved Araragi from his vampirism. Bakemonogatari is a tale about the monsters that reside within everyone, but just how deep do they dwell in the people Araragi meets?

When Asa's mother goes into labor yet again, Asa runs off to find a doctor. But no one bats an eye when she doesn't return—not even as a storm approaches Nagoya. Forgotten yet again, Asa runs into a burglar and tries to stop him on her own, a decision that leads to an unlikely alliance.

Lee Sori, a polite and righteous girl, attends a middle school plagued with bullying. Enraged by the tragic effects it has had on her friend Kim Julie, she decides to take a stand against the bullying. Unfortunately, this only leads the bullies to switch their target to Sori. Believing a new environment would rid her of the hopeless situation, Sori returns to the city she used to live in and transfers schools. However, the traumatizing experiences that constantly haunt Sori's memory cause her to alienate herself from everyone else. Just as the grim reality of Sori's circumstances begin to set in, she discovers a mysterious letter taped under her desk. While the contents of the letter intrigue her, they only lead her to another letter. Now following a seemingly endless trail of messages, Sori is on a scavenger hunt to find the true purpose of these letters and the anonymous person behind it all.

In this sci-fi/fantasy survival thriller, the dangerous and deadly realm of the Otherside--where urban legends, cryptids, and folkloric legends roam--calls to two women, both in search of something. As they set out to sate their curiosity and explore this other world, will the most earth-shattering thing they discover on the Otherside be their feelings for each other?

An unexplained series of suicides among skill users sends the Armed Detective Agency on a search for a man who may be connected. But when the same phenomenon descends upon Yokohama, they’ll have to fight for their lives if they want a chance to reach the truth and save the city from certain destruction!

After that day, she stopped being a girl. In the wake of an assault, Nina Kamiyama, a former idol in the group Pure Club, shuns her femininity and starts dressing as a boy. At high school she keeps to herself, but fellow student Hikaru Horiuchi realizes who she is. What secrets is she keeping? The shocking drama starts. *Notes: Nominated to the 23rd Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.*

Shy, bespectacled John Utterson is the only person who can tell the popular Stevenson twins apart. This achievement is even more impressive considering that the cool and composed Jekyll and the cheerful and expressive Hyde purposely take turns pretending to be each other on a regular basis. However this game of theirs began, it has been going on long enough that the once distinct lines between their true selves have faded; if they are always together, it does not matter what role the two play. But when one of the twins dies in an unfortunate accident, they can no longer be called "Jekyll and Hyde," and even John has to question which of his best friends survived.

Ryo was an average high school student until a plane he was on crashed in a frozen wasteland. Now, there’s no telling if help will come, and the surviving passengers are already fighting among themselves. Nonetheless, Ryo struggles to find a way to work together and save everyone, but could there be a secret reason for these circumstances that he’s unaware of?

Kagami Kizuna and his partner, Miya Midou, make up the Moguri Detective Agency, which will take on any job that regular detectives won't touch. Kagami's "Empathy" makes him highly sensitive to human emotion, but is not without its own mysteries and pitfalls. Thus begins the story of two unusual individuals, their quirky clients, and the weird mysteries they all encounter.

Original Web Manga A strange disease is spreading around the world and slowly turning humans into animals. Solder, who has become part panda, and Takebayashi, a chic and charismatic Tokyoite, team up to shed light on this strange virus that could plunge their city into chaos.

An adaptation of Fujino Harumi's "Nanashi Series" online occult horror stories. The plot centres on a boy named Haru (a pseudonym of the author) and his friend Nanashima Kyousuke, a.k.a. Nanashi, who possesses strange powers.

This "turn-of-the-century mystery manga" takes place in a Japan where an unknown infectious disease has killed off more than half the country's population. The interests of two men - Ruslan the coroner and Sanajima the police officer - align as they work together to solve the mysteries of their dystopian world.

Fukamachi Naoya is a university student whose ability to infallibly detect lies has left him friendless and isolated. When his paper piques the interest of his handsome and eccentric Folklore Studies professor, Takatsuki Akira, he soon finds himself dragged into Takatsuki's research. Now, as the "Assistant In Charge of Common Sense," he must help his professor interpret an array of unexplainable phenomena…

The manga centers on a female lawyer who is the second-youngest bar passer at 20 years old, and who has remained undefeated in all her cases, with each one resulting in a not-guilty verdict, even for those charged with murder. As a result, she remains an outsider in the legal community despite her victories.

Seiji Tohno sometimes sees the people around him as monsters. It is a curse that had driven him to a life of despair, living out of internet cafés with nowhere to call home...but all that changes one twilit evening when he stumbles across a huge European mansion. There, Seiji meets a bewitchingly beautiful boy dressed in a kimono with a white peony motif on the shoulder, who introduces himself as Shiroshi Saijou. This mysterious young man seems to know more about Seiji than he does himself, and before he knows it, Seiji has agreed to become Shiroshi's assistant in exchange for room and board. Little does he know, however, this “proxy service,”' as Shiroshi puts it, is none other than outsourced death! Sending monster-possessed sinners to Hell, will bring Seiji face-to-face with terrifying new creatures each and every day! *Volumes:* 1. Hell Without Flowers (地獄くらやみ花もなき) 2. Island of a Living Doll (弐 生き人形の島) 3. Snake Eating Inn (参 蛇喰らう宿) 4. Demon Parade Night Express (肆 百鬼疾る夜行列車) 5. Rain Goldfish, Hide-and-Seek in the Dark (伍 雨の金魚、昏い隠れ鬼) 6. Prison Where a Black Cat Cries (陸 黒猫の鳴く獄舎) 7. The Dog Howling in the Dark Night (漆 闇夜に吠える犬) 8. The Cursed Flower of The Night, A Story of One Rainy Night (冥がりの呪花、雨の夜語り)

The sudden appearance of the amnesiac witch, Nyx, has brought a lot of changes to Ren Xi's life. They look out for each other and help each other grow. The spark of chemistry between them has quietly initiated. What Ren Xi wants is to help Nyx retrieve her lost memories. In the process, they discover an astonishing secret...

Shuu Makino is a young man who lives in a town where his parents run a small flower shop. In this town, missing people have frequently been reported. One day while Shuu was helping his parents with the store's refurbishment, he immediately loses consciousness when he witnesses a mysterious creature surrounded by countless butterflies. When he wakes up, he finds himself in a dissection laboratory owned by a peculiar creature known as the "Wildman."

A direct continuation of the storyline from the original *Tactics* manga.

Momotake, a private detective with a perfect sense of taste, tries to recreate so-called lost foods: foods that have been forgotten in the annals of history.

Akio has changed his job for some reason, just as he is about to leave middle age. His new job is at a small detective agency, run by his childhood friend, Hirose. Akio and Hirose are curious buddies and they heal the hearts of their clients while solving difficult requests.