Spiral (Novel) - Recommendations

• Vol: 3+
• 2014 - ?

Obana is a maintenance worker and repairman, who frequently encounters stange mysteries surrounding the homes he manages... But with his extremely sharp reasoning skills, he brilliantly solves them all!

• Vol: 1; Ch: 23
• 2020

It has been three years since the calamity of 1998 that claimed the lives of many in Yomiyama North Middle School's class 3-3. Sou Hiratsuka will now have to work with survivor Mei Misaki to avert a new disaster.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 7
• 1994

A bizarre set of mysteries have befallen the Kuonji household. Kyoko Kuonji is said to be with child for the last twenty months, and her husband Makio disappeared a few months prior to the prgnancy. The odd circumstances have left the family with no one to turn to for help, until a freelance writer asks his exorcist friend to take on the case. The catch—the exorcist does not believe in ghosts. To Akihiko “Kyogokudo” Chuzenji, the supernatural is as much metaphysical and mental as it is unearthly.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 4
• 2019

Dr. Seowoo Han is targeted for revenge and ends up killing her attacker in self-defense. Her detective husband helps her dump the body and frame it as the work of a serial killer. The only problem? The real serial killer knows what they did, and is blackmailing them into committing more murders...

• Vol: 1
• 2001

In the near future, humans will communicate almost exclusively through online networks— face-to-face meetings are rare and the surveillance state nearly all-powerful. So when a serial killer starts slaughtering junior high students, the crackdown is harsh. The killer's latest victim turns out to have been in contact with three young girls: Mio Tsuzuki, a certified prodigy; Hazuki Makino, a quiet but opinionated classmate; and Ayumi Kono, her best friend. And as the girls get caught up in trying to find the killer—who might just be a werewolf—Hazuki learns that there is much more [to their monitored communications] than meets the eye.

• Vol: 1
• 2011

• Vol: 1
• 1997

The interrelationships between four women factory workers, whose success in covering up the murder and disposal of one of their spouses leads them to contemplate and execute ever more daring, ruthless and ultimately violent plans.

• Vol: 11+; Ch: 492+
• 1990 - ?

In the seedy Shinjuku district of Tokyo, Detective Samejima silently stalks his prey. To the yakuza gangsters he is the “shark” for his relentless pursuit of justice regardless of the cost. To his superiors, he is a thorn not to be pulled; his dismissal could unleash secrets capable of tearing down the force. None will be his partner, a risky proposition made more dangerous by their rough turf. But now there’s a serial killer on the streets, and he’s hunting police officers. While the force will lose not only more men but its face if the spree continues, the use of a mysterious firearm stymies the investigation. Samejima is forced to choose between keeping to his maverick ways and working with HQ.

• Vol: 1
• 2021

The fast-growing IT company "SpriLinks" is hiring new graduates for the first time. The remaining six job-hunting students who have made it to the final selection are given a topic and tasked with forming a team and having a group discussion about it within one month. Shougo Hatano begins to deepen his connections with the other five applicants so that all six can receive a job offer, but just before the final interview, they're notified that the task has been changed. The new task is to "choose one potential employee out of the six of you." Suddenly, the six former comrades become rivals who are at each other's throats trying get a hold of the lone position. And then, in the middle of the debate on which the job offer is at stake, they discover six sealed envelopes. When each of them opens the envelope with their name on it, they find a accusation letter inside with the words "**** is a murderer" written on it. What lies have these six told, and what crimes have they committed? And what is the "killer's" goal...?

• Vol: 10
• 2009 - 2019

Mathematic is erased from Japan school curriculum. Then an organization appear to be the one that oppose it, called Black Triangle, threats the government and claimed that they will take over the country. To fight them, police form a team, and among them there is a junior high school girl.