TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION...Naoya Fukamachi is a university student whose ability to infallibly detect lies has left him friendless and isolated. When he writes a paper about a strange festival he wandered into as a child, though, he catches the...
“The mystical is nothing but phenomena plus interpretation, Fukamachi-kun.” 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...
It’s no secret that Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki is a die-hard mystery fanatic, and with the help of human lie detector Naoya Fukamachi, he’s determined to solve every case that hits his desk. First, a group of elementary schoolchildren cl...
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 wit...
CURSES...BLESSINGS... TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN.A new string of mysteries begins with Naoya’s classmate Nanba discovering a chain letter in his schoolbag. Unusually excited by the occult opportunity, Professor Takatsuki gleefully invites the burde...
We walk a path that straddles the boundary between reality and the next world. 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 ...
GHOSTS OF THE PAST…Spring has come for Naoya, now in his second year of college. To Professor Takatsuki’s delight, Naoya signs on for another year as his assistant, and it doesn’t take long for the requests to start coming in! Strange things ke...
“If you had died, professor… I would be all alone again.”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 ...
University student Naoya Fukamachi has the ability to unerringly detect lies. He finds himself working for his eccentric associate professor of folklore studies, Akira Takatsuki, to investigate the supernatural. After closing the case on the eerie my...
During the summer of his second year of university, to find out the truth behind his uncanny ability to detect lies and the “Festival of the Dead,” Naoya decides to head out towards the old village of Koyama in Nagano with Takatsuki and Sasakura....
“Because we will return—to the world of everyday life.” Professor Akira’s scary story party became a strange tale in its own right when a ghostly voice was caught on the recording equipment—now it falls to the pro...
Takatsuki's estranged cousin Hiroto reaches out to him. Apparently, a growth has appeared on his fiance's shoulder -- and it's taking the shape of a face! But the moment they meet her, she yells "Master Tengu" and runs over...! Then, on the website t...