Mouryou no Hako

魍魎の匣 Manga

Informações adicionais

Format MANGA
Status Finished
Start date Aug 22, 2007
End date Apr 21, 2010
Average score 64/100
Popularity 964
Favorites 24
Genres Mystery
Psychological
Supernatural
Thriller

Tags

Historical 79%
Partly or completely set during a real period of world history.
Detective 79%
Features a character who investigates and solves crimes.
Body Horror 79%
Features characters who undergo horrific transformations or disfigurement, often to their own detriment.
Youkai 79%
Prominently features supernatural creatures from Japanese folklore.
Seinen 60%
Target demographic is adult males.
Philosophy 60%
Relating or devoted to the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.
Primarily Adult Cast 60%
Main cast is mostly composed of characters above a high school age.
Denpa 60%
Works that feature themes of social dissociation, delusions, and other issues like suicide, bullying, self-isolation, paranoia, and technological necessity in daily lives. Classic iconography: telephone poles, rooftops, and trains.
Incest 40%
Features sexual or romantic relations between characters who are related by blood.
Yuri 40%
Prominently features romance between two females, not inherently sexual. Also known as Girls' Love.
Ensemble Cast 20%
Features a large cast of characters with (almost) equal screen time and importance to the plot.

Sinopse

Manga adaptation of the second novel in Kyougoku Natsuhiko's award-winning Kyougokudou Series.

Right after the war, Showa era in Japan. Kusumoto Yoriko and Yuzuki Kanako who attend an all girls school plan to take the last train to go to the lake. However, Kanako ends up getting run over by the train. Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Detective Kiba who happened to be there when it happened, is asked to watch the confused Yoriko. Kiba goes with the worried Yoriko to the hospital Kanako is taken to, and there Kiba meets a woman who calls herself Kanako's sister; Yuzuki Youko. That happened to be the actress Kiba had been admiring, Minami Kinuko.