Kanoko has realized she's in love with Iwai Soma. She becomes conscious of this as they work yet another case. While lost in her fluffy feelings she is kidnapped by Shiro, the notorious criminal they've had to deal with all this time.

It is 1926, the first year of the Showa era. Kanoko, a girl who can hear lies, and impoverished but cunning detective Soma Iwai now face a murder on a solitary island. Meanwhile, Chiyo Fujishima, a big fan of detectives, has her own case to solve. This volume also includes a special short with a retro-modern back-alley tale of mystery!

Soma and Kanoko get wrapped up in a fight between the waitress Lily and her partner, Kanji, and find themselves infiltrating a haunted house, chasing after the key to a murder case! Soma and Kanoko get wrapped up in a fight between the waitress Lily and her partner, Kanji, and find themselves infiltrating a haunted house, chasing after the key to a murder case! Soma and Kanoko get wrapped up in a fight between the waitress Lily and her partner, Kanji, and find themselves infiltrating a haunted house, chasing after the key to a murder case!

After meeting with her brother Issa, Sayu learns that she has just one week left. In order to allow herself to look to the future, Sayu steels herself to reveal the events of her past to Yoshida and Asami—an intense past buried in trauma and regrets. “In my second year of high school . . . I was all alone.” Sayu’s past, at last unveiled. The reason she left home. The truth is finally brought into the light!

Kanoko and Soma spend what little cash they have on a train ticket. From Tsukumoya Town, they travel to where Soma’s older brother Atsushi lives. With Kanoko’s power to hear lies, they aim to uncover clues as to why Atsushi set that trap for his younger brother Soma. But along the way, they end up hearing a lie about a possible affair happening between Atsushi and his wife?!

It is 1926, the first year of the Showa era. Kanoko, a girl who can hear lies, and impoverished but cunning detective Soma Iwai venture back to Kanoko’s hometown. Kanoko, who was chased out of her town for her ability, now comes face-to-face with her mother.

When a beautiful, mysterious woman appears on poverty-ridden detective Iwai Soma's doorstep and decides to stay with them, she asks Kanoko a disturbing question: "What will you do if Mr. Iwai gets married?"

Little is known about the boy detective in Japanese detective fiction despite his popularity. Who is he, and what mysteries does he unveil about cultural understandings of youth in Japanese society? Manga, Murder and Mystery answers these questions by exploring the figure of the shonen (boy) detective in commercially successful manga series such as Detective Conan, The Case Files of Young Kindaichi, Death Note and Moriarty the Patriot. The book explores how these popular works tackle the crisis of young adult culture within the socioeconomic climate of Japan's 'lost decade' and Heisei era, broadly speaking. Mimi Okabe shows how detective manga materialized in a nation undergoing a state of crisis and how the boy detective emerged as a site of national trauma to address perceived youth problems but in thematically different ways.

High school student Hajime Hinata must be the "Ultimate" at something--after all, he got accepted to Hope's Peak Academy, which takes only the nation's elite teens (whether they're elite at being gangsters, gymnasts, or hamster breeders!). But he doesn't know what his special talent is...only that he and his classmates have been given a surprise summer vacation on Jabberwock Island. It may be a tropical paradise, but their sinister teddy bear headmaster Monokuma still expects them all to complete their assignments if they ever want to go home--namely, murder a fellow student and get away with it, as the survivors cross-examine each other at a classroom trial! Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is an alternate version of the events told in the manga Danganronpa 2: Ultimate Luck and Hope and Despair. That series told the story through the eyes of "Ultimate Lucky Student" Nagito Komaeda; now Goodbye Despair gives you the perspective of his arch-rival in the desperate classroom murder game, Hajime Hinata!

Uenohara has had her eyes set on confessing to her friend, Sakuraba for awhile now, but she hasn't been brave enough to say anything. That was until she spots Sakuraba possible being confessed to and that's when she knows she needs to act fast! Uenohara then hatches a plan to get them locked together overnight in the storage room to finally gain the courage to confess her love. It's now or never and she'll use every bit of sex appeal to snare her one true love!