"Hold No to Iu Mystery" is a new manga by Yumi Tamura, who is well known for her works "BASARA" and "7SEEDS". Her previous work was a grand-scale shounen manga-style shojo manga, and a grand-scale sci-fi shojo manga, but this time it's a grand-scale mystery? It's a work with a big head. The shojo manga element has disappeared, and the fact that the title says it's not a mystery makes it a pretty strange work, but the beginning and end of the case are mysteries. Some of the cases in the work don't have a culprit to begin with, but there are also cases where there is a culprit, so I'd like to give a brief introduction to the episodes and the culprit! Spoiler alert!
Case 1: University Student Murder Case "Summary"
A police officer arrives at the apartment of Tono Kuno, a university student with a natural perm and a distinctively exploding head. He is told that there has been a murder in the neighborhood, and that the victim is Tono's university classmate, Saga Ken. In addition, there is also a witness who said that he saw a person who looked like Tono, so Tono is voluntarily taken in for questioning. However, Tono is a talkative guy who doesn't have friends or a girlfriend, and even if the content of his talk is unrelated to the case, it is a story that strikes a chord with the people he meets. Meanwhile, the murder weapon is found, covered with Sei's fingerprints and the victim's blood.
Murder of a University Student - Perpetrator "Detective Inspector Yabu Kanzou"
The perpetrator was one of the detectives who interrogated Sei, a veteran detective who had decided from the beginning that Sei was guilty. The motive was revenge for Sagae's hit-and-run on Yabu's wife and child two years ago. When he was working at the police box, he had received a house key that Sei had dropped, and when he was entrusted with the key, he had made a copy of the key and stole the murder weapon used in the crime from Sei's house and committed the crime. However, although Sagae had a bad attitude, he did not commit a hit-and-run. The real culprit was Sagae's senior from high school who had taken Sagae's car and driven it around, and it was this senior who committed the hit-and-run.
Case 2: Strange Bus Hijacking Case "Summary"
On a day off, Sei hurries to board a bus that is about to depart to go to an impressionist exhibition. However, a bus hijacking occurs on that bus. However, the bus hijacker, Inudo Otoya, does not demand a ransom and instead asks the passengers some strange questions. They answer questions such as "My weaknesses," "Killing someone," "Why you shouldn't kill someone," and "What is the worst way to die?", but Sei unintentionally makes Otoya angry with the questions, and is subdued by one of the passengers, Sakamoto Masao, but in fact Sakamoto is in on it and his real name is Inudo Garo. The hostages are eventually invited to the Inudo family mansion and spend the night there.
Strange bus hijacking case: Perpetrators "Inudo Garo, Inudo Haya, Inudo Otoya"
In fact, there are three bus hijackers in total. The main culprits were Inudo Garo, Inudo Otoya, who hijacked the bus, Inudo Haya, who called himself Sakamoto Masao and then Inudo Garo, and a strangely powerful young man who called himself Kumada Sho. Their goal was to expose the "bizarre killer who buries his targets alive" that has been making the news recently. One of the murdered, Inudo Aiju, was Garo's older sister and Haya and Otoya's cousin. Suspects were narrowed down from the circumstances of the murder, and the passengers who were under house arrest were gathered together and asked numerous questions to interrogate them in order to identify the culprit. Incidentally, Rei, who had hurriedly boarded the bus, was completely unrelated to the incident.
Serial Murders Buried Alive: The Perpetrator "Tabakomori Makoto"
The murderer of Inudo Aiju, who Garo and his team were searching for, and the serial murderer. After work, when he was trying to put the bus away in the garage, he found the remaining passenger dead and tried to bury her in the mountains. However, the victim revived just before he could, and he desperately buried her in the ground. The victim was Inudo Aiju, and he felt pleasure from the sensation, so he repeatedly killed her by burying her in the ground. For him, if the victim was out of sight, he considered it to be "gone," so if the body was out of sight, it was all gone, and he had no sense of guilt whatsoever.
Incident 3: The inheritance of the Kariatsu family's fortune "Overview"
After learning that the Impressionist exhibition that he was unable to attend because of Inudo Garo was going to be held in Hiroshima, Sei headed there and was approached by a strange girl on his trip. The girl's name was Kariatsu Shioji. She was introduced to Sei by Inudo Garo and suggested a part-time job to him. It was about the huge inheritance of the Kariatsu family's fortune. The four candidates gather to follow the will of the head of the Karishu family and solve the riddle issued by the executors, the Kurumazaka family and the Makabe family, which says, "Put everything in each storehouse where it should be, without excess or deficiency." They try to get the inheritance. The four candidates receive the keys to the four storehouses one by one and begin their investigation.
The inheritance with a story
This inheritance had a story. Each time the Karishu family inherited the inheritance, there was a death, and Shioji's father and the relatives of the other candidates were killed in a car accident at the same time. After many twists and turns, the four candidates work together to solve the mystery, and in the process, they come closer to the truth through the commonalities between the dead, including Shioji's fathers, and the content of a play called "Oni no Shuu," which is related to the Karishu family's past.
The perpetrator of the Karishu family's inheritance: "Kurumasaka Asaharu and the Karishu, Makabe, and Kurumasaka families"
The Karishu and the other three families were once families of those who murdered the heads of prestigious families and stole their fortunes and wives. However, when they took over the family, they let one child escape, so they feared the child's revenge, and there was a custom of killing someone who looked like the person who took over the family when the opportunity arose. Shioji's father was also a target for murder because of his appearance, and the perpetrator was Kurumazaka Asahi of the Kurumazaka family. However, Shioji's fathers knew the whereabouts of the descendants of the child that the family had let escape, but they killed him before they could find out, so they gathered Shioji and others who might have heard something and set up a mystery about the inheritance.
【Hyoukare: Summary of the culprits】
I have summarized the culprits who appear in "Hyoukare: Summary of the culprits". However, there are many cases where there is no person who can be said to be the culprit in the end, or where the mystery is solved and the culprit is found. This work has many such unusual episodes, and there are also episodes where Sei simply talks and the problem is solved within the listener, so the more you read it, the more interesting it becomes. It has become a hot topic. I think it will probably be made into a drama.
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