Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki's Conjecture
Naoya Fukamachi’s ability to unerringly detect lies has left him friendless and isolated all his life. It certainly isn’t helping him meet new people in college. But when he catches the interest of the handsome but eccentric associate professor of folklore studies, Akira Takatsuki, he finds himself with a part-time job- research assistant in charge of common sense, on a mission to help catalogue the supernatural!
Naoya Fukamachi’s ability to unerringly detect lies has left him friendless and isolated all his life. It certainly isn’t helping him meet new people in college. But when he catches the interest of the handsome but eccentric associate professor of folklore studies, Akira Takatsuki, he finds himself with a part-time job- research assistant in charge of common sense, on a mission to help catalogue the supernatural!
The mysterious lurks in that which fills the crevices between ordinary things—“The Extraordinary.” Akira Takatsuki, an associate professor of folklore studies and a collector of strange tales, has taken Naoya Fukamachi, a college student with the uncanny ability to detect lies, under his wing. When another of Professor Takatsuki’s students reveals that she is living through an urban legend—needles falling all around her and even appearing in her food—the mismatched duo is on the case! But then the professor stops their investigation in its tracks to invite Fukamachi to a barbecue? Is this just one of his eccentricities getting in the way of another, or is there some grand plan brewing…?
The mysterious lurks in that which fills the crevices between ordinary things—“The Extraordinary.” Akira Takatsuki, an associate professor of folklore studies and a collector of strange tales, has taken Naoya Fukamachi, a college student with the uncanny ability to detect lies, under his wing. When another of Professor Takatsuki’s students reveals that she is living through an urban legend—needles falling all around her and even appearing in her food—the mismatched duo is on the case! But then the professor stops their investigation in its tracks to invite Fukamachi to a barbecue? Is this just one of his eccentricities getting in the way of another, or is there some grand plan brewing…?
Fukamachi loses his mysterious ability to distinguish untruths after catching a cold! While he’s out of commission, Professor Takatsuki makes an appearance on a panel next to an actress who claims to have seen ghosts! How will Takatsuki fare in an investigation of her haunted studio with his lie detector on the fritz...?
Fukamachi loses his mysterious ability to distinguish untruths after catching a cold! While he’s out of commission, Professor Takatsuki makes an appearance on a panel next to an actress who claims to have seen ghosts! How will Takatsuki fare in an investigation of her haunted studio with his lie detector on the fritz...?
The truth behind Mana, the “Miracle Girl of Okutama,” comes to light! And soon after, the crew ventures out to investigate a mysterious cave said to enshrine an oni. There, they find not relics of a demon, but rather a human skull with a gaping hole... All this and more, as Professor Takatsuki and Naoya risk life and limb in their hunt for the supernatural!
The truth behind Mana, the “Miracle Girl of Okutama,” comes to light! And soon after, the crew ventures out to investigate a mysterious cave said to enshrine an oni. There, they find not relics of a demon, but rather a human skull with a gaping hole... All this and more, as Professor Takatsuki and Naoya risk life and limb in their hunt for the supernatural!
After closing the case on the eerie mystery of 4:44, the professor and his intrepid intern investigate reports of mermaid sightings in a seaside town. As Professor Akira would be quick to explain, not all mermaids are gentle beauties— and as Fukamachi can prove, not all mysteries are built of lies… And their adventures don’t end there, as a lead from the past soon sends them tumbling into the candlelit terror of the Night of One Hundred Horrors!
After closing the case on the eerie mystery of 4:44, the professor and his intrepid intern investigate reports of mermaid sightings in a seaside town. As Professor Akira would be quick to explain, not all mermaids are gentle beauties— and as Fukamachi can prove, not all mysteries are built of lies… And their adventures don’t end there, as a lead from the past soon sends them tumbling into the candlelit terror of the Night of One Hundred Horrors!
Professor Akira’s scary story party became a strange tale itself when a ghostly voice was caught on the recording equipment—now it falls to the professor and Fukamachi to resolve the mystery of the Night of One Hundred Horrors! And Fukamachi’s summer has more in store, with Akira accompanying him to Nagano. There, they will learn the secrets of the festival of the dead that Fukamachi saw on the muggy summer night of his youth that changed his life—and his ears—forever!
Professor Akira’s scary story party became a strange tale itself when a ghostly voice was caught on the recording equipment—now it falls to the professor and Fukamachi to resolve the mystery of the Night of One Hundred Horrors! And Fukamachi’s summer has more in store, with Akira accompanying him to Nagano. There, they will learn the secrets of the festival of the dead that Fukamachi saw on the muggy summer night of his youth that changed his life—and his ears—forever!