Manga Review: Muhyo & Roji’s Bureau of Supernatural Investigation

Story and art by: Yoshiyuki Nishi

By Aliraluna

Are you a victim of unwanted spirit possession? Is there a ghost you need sent up and away or down to burn for all eternity? If the answer is yes, then you need Muhyo and Roji, experts in magic law. Serving justice to evil spirits is their specialty.

Follow Muhyo, the youngest of the executors of magic law, and Roji his second clerk assistant (lowest rank) in the many adventures they will have while Roji learns more about magic law, and strange events start happening. Enjoy the first manga I read!

Article #1: Rie & Taeko: 
Rie Inoue pays a visit to tell them about “the girl on track 5” believing that the ghost is indeed a girl that pulls people’s legs and that she may have been a classmate, specifically a friend of hers and she thinks she killed her. Will both girls find redemption and know what really happened?

Article #2: Old Mrs. Kiyomi: 
Muhyo and Roji are starving but there’s no money! Just when Muhyo is eating a book this cute old lady called Kiyomi Taguchi arrives with curry and a new case. She runs a student dormitory that is now haunted. One day, the students went to tell her about a a one-eyed ghost and left because they were really scared. She needs them to come back as she promised her late husband that every Sunday she would give curry to the students because they are poor… Who’s that ghost and what does it want?

Article #3: Genius: 
In the middle of the night they receive a call to arrive at a mansion. Shiratori explains that at two in the morning precisely, a shadow starts playing the piano. Muhyo explains that sometimes the emotion of ‘hate’ from several people get together creating a haunt. Later on, they find the paper that has their advertisement and notice that the colors of the mark of magic laws are inverted… Was this case on purpose?

Article #4: The Present: 
A “normal” day in their lives, Muhyo gets angry because Roji was using his book and he throws a fit. Roji goes away while crying when he suddenly finds himself sitting in an old chair. He decides to give this antique to Muhyo, but things get worse. Why did Muhyo reject his present?

Article #5: Kenji, Destroyer of Signs:

In this chapter, we meet a boy (that will appear later) named Kenji who doesn't believe in ghosts and decides to throw a rock at their sign. Also, he’s going steal a seal from a temple. What will happen? Will he finally believe in ghosts?

Special One-shot: 

Kaya’s Onodera house is alive; the temperature changes and it gets worse when a man appears. She think it has to do with Nobuo, a guy that followed her everywhere and everyone called him a stalker… Is it really him? I wouldn't trust that cellphone strap.

Manga Review: Fairy Cube vol. 1 Part 2 (Spoiler Alert)

Story and art by: Kaori Yuki

By: Aliraluna

    

   Tokage now possess Ian Hasumi’s body and he explains that now no one can hear nor see him. He also explains that the lizard in the cube was a fire fairy he made a deal with and thanks to that when he was killed and his soul left his body he was able to enter Ian’s body by using the lizard’s powers. Ian decides to go to the antique shop and when he was about to attack Kaito, from inside the doll came a fairy called Ainsel. In order to save the shop, Kaito removes his eye patch creating a portal, transporting them to Otherworld. Through a mirror Kaito explains that the only way to come back is to find a large tree; an Oak, an Ash or Hawthorn. In there, Ian encounters his first danger while trying to save Biki, an Urchin (a goblin that transforms into a hedgehog) from a Nuckelavee (a huge sea monster half horse, half human that eats all living creatures). Now that Biki, her family and Ian are all safe thanks to the power of Ainsel they are able to go back. When Ian arrives he makes a deal with Kaito, a Death Dealer, to use another body and Ainsel’s power to seek revenge. Ian comes back in the body of a little kid.

     While using the amulet that Kaito gave him, others won’t be able to tell he’s a winged person and so he starts to see Rin again. Rin tells him of how “Ian” has changed, he now fights and has followers. Later on, a transfer student from Hokusei middle school arrives, telling Tokage that the school needs a queen and crop circles which leads to him becoming his enemy. Another day Ian and Ainsel go look for Kaito, only to find that the antique shop is nowhere to be found and they see a strange man with one eye covered looking for him but he goes away when he doesn’t see him. Ian appears out of nowhere in a secret place where Rin is and they see when the transfer girl, who also a wing person, made a boy her servant and, to their misfortune, she sees them and she tells Rin that “Ian” lied to her and he’s going to fight there at eleven.

   Back at where Ian is staying (the house of the grandmother of the child’s body) they find that Kaito’s going to be their driver and so they go to see the fight. Both see when Tokage destroys the transfer girl and Ian shows her who he truly is. Believing in him Ian takes her away (flying and landing in Kaito’s car) to the house. The old lady accepts Rin but tells him he will listen to her story and even if she’s blind she knows about him and Ainsel. Wonder who she is? Find out in the next volume!