Following up on the high note of family ties on which the previous instalment concluded, but preceding it chronologically, we find Araragi and his little sister Tsukihi, the heroine of the last volume, in full sibling rivalry mode as they bicker about love. The conversation that cannot end unfolds in its unabashed original glory herein. Like KIZUMONOGATARI, which delved into our narrator’s disastrous spring break, Cat Tale (Black) is a prequel about another catastrophe, mentioned often yet never recounted even in a foregoing chapter dedicated to Miss H.: namely, the model student’s rampage over Golden Week, a string of holidays starting at the end of April. (Source: Kodansha USA)
From VOFAN, star illustrator of the MONOGATARI series of novels written by NISIOISIN, comes a full-color artbook of his best personal works. Praised by fans around the world as “The Magician of Light and Shadow from Taiwan”, VOFAN is famous for using a vibrant art style combined with unique camera techniques in his art.
*"Recipe Revealed. How to make Ononoki Yotsugi"* Oshino Meme and Kaiki Deishuu, members of the Sakaimiyako University Occult Research Club, are invited by their senior and leader, Gaen Izuko, to take part in a forbidden ritual. Together with the high school girl Kagenui Yozuru, they scramble to make preparations, but the project takes an unexpected turn─! These are modern-day oddities! Oddities! Oddities! (Source: Kodansha, translated)
The first short story compilation of Nisio Isin's Monogatari series! Thirty-eight familiar stories! “To me, people's hearts are like darkness." Nadeko Sengoku is haunted by memories of a past she wishes to forget. Shinobu Oshino is at last in despair over her seemingly endless future. And Ononoki Yotsugi, the doll who tries to console them! \_"Nadeko Past" / "Shinobu Future"\_ These are the modern oddities! Oddities! Oddities! Talking about the past and the future is what youth is all about.
The tenth instalment of the Boukyaku Tantei Series. The only employee of the Okitegami Detective Agency, Oyagiri Mamoru, receives a sudden threatening phone call. "If you want Okitegami Kyouko back, you'll have to come up with one billion yen." He is the only one who can rescue the lonely forgetful detective. Although he doesn't have the powers of deduction like Kyouko-san does, he does have a "memory" of her. Mamoru begins his investigation with his own hands. Meanwhile, Kyouko-san wakes up in the presence of the murderer—? The pure white Okitegami Detective Agency vs. the jet-black kidnapper! How will this head-to-head battle end?! (Source: Kodansha, translated)
The eleventh instalment of the Boukyaku Tantei Series. Okitegami Kyouko—her memory resets every time she sleeps. Taking advantage of this characteristic, she works as the "forgetful detective". In the name of business, she sets out on a trip with her bodyguard, Oyagiri Mamoru. She has no particular destination in mind. What kind of incident awaits them on this trip? (Source: Kodansha, translated)
The ninth instalment of the Boukyaku Tantei Series. The forgetful detective, Okitegami Kyouko, is arrested as a suspect in a robbery-murder case. She was found asleep at the scene, clutching the bloody murder weapon, and had forgotten her memories of the incident. When Kyouko-san offers to investigate the case from inside her cage, she is confronted by Hitaisei, a strong police officer nicknamed "the False Accuser". As he struggles with his pride as a police officer, he chooses to ask for the help of the "forgetful detective expert", Kakushidate Yakusuke...? (Source: Kodansha, translated)
The thirteenth instalment of the Boukyaku Tantei Series. When Kyouko-san's powers of deduction are taken away, her partner, Yakusuke, is on the run! How will she take on the series' greatest enemy? A time limit mystery! "The characters on the ceiling. It was I who wrote them." A young man, Yakusuke, has been deemed a suspect in an attempted murder case. As usual, he asks the forgetful detective, Okitegami Kyouko, to solve the case. However, in the middle of the case, Kyouko-san is shot. She survives but loses her great deduction ability. In pursuit of the culprit, Yakusuke is confronted by someone who knows about the forgetful detective's past... (Source: Kodansha, translated)
The second instalment of the Boukyaku Tantei Series. A young man, Oyagiri Mamoru, works as a security guard at a museum. Whenever he visits the area he guards, there's always a beautiful white-haired woman who stops in front of a particular painting. She is Okitegami Kyouko, also known as the Forgetful Detective. They were only supposed to be a guard and spectator until a number of tough cases involving art occurred—. (Source: Kodansha, translated)
The fifth instalment of the Boukyaku Tantei Series. With her resignation letter tucked into her breast pocket, Inspector Hatopa was shaken. Her last case is a drowned body found floating in a park fountain. However, due to its inexplicability, she is forced to investigate in cooperation with the famous forgetful detective, Okitegami Kyouko...... A detective wishing to quit and a workaholic detective. A strange tag team takes on the mystery! (Source: Kodansha, translated)
The eighth instalment of the Boukyaku Tantei Series. "I'll snatch the Eiffel Tower." --Miss Phantom Thief. The forgetful detective, Okitegami Kyouko, is invited to Paris to stop a daring crime threat. However, the thief's true plan is to have Kyouko-san herself steal the Eiffel Tower......?! Stolen memories and a brilliant trap. Can her assistant, Kakushidate Yakusuke, save Kyouko-san from the thief's clutches? (Source: Kodansha, translated)
