Genre: Horror, Mistery, Psychological

Based on a novel by Otsu-ichi (Hirotaka Adachi) and adapted to manga by Kenji Oiwa (Welcome to the N.H.K.), this “horror” manga tell us the history of two highschool students, Itsuki Kamiyama and Yoru Morino, who have this particular interest (more like fixation) in strange cases of murder going around their neighborhood, and usually, they end up getting involved while investigating. Not that they don’t like it.

I totally enjoyed reading this short manga, its constant atmosphere of slight mystery and suspense progressively evolving combined with all the weirdness surounding the main characters and their fascination for murders, murderers and investigation is higly atractive to me. Can’t help, i like weird stuff and never get bored of it.

Also, contrary to what one would normally see, these two have got no interest in doing “the right thing”, they search no justice, they do it just because of their “morbid” likes, however, the history has a bit more to it than that. It’s a simple history with an interesting twist, very well drawn and entertaining indeed.

So, don’t get fooled by the tittle (in a post-script Otsuichi tries to explain what does it mean, but it isn’t really conclusive -I can understand why, it’s not easy with such a wide concept-), it’s worth a read

By the way, it has some extremely graphic content. You are warned, though I think that’s why it’s labeled as “horror”.