If you are even passingly fond of manga, or interested in mysteries, this may be the best manga series you will never have a chance to read.
The Kindaichi Case Files are a series of mystery stories that have been coming out in Japan since the early 90s and continues to have new chapters and volumes being released today.
The main character of the stories is a high schooler named Hajime Kindaichi, the grandson of (fictional) P.I. Kosuke Kindaichi (described by some as being a Japanese Columbo). He is unmotivated, lazy, and a little lecherous (which is probably a pretty good description of most high school guys) but is also brilliant and a master of sleigh of hand tricks. With his childhood friend and girl-next-door neighbor Miyuki Nanase, they find themselves in the middle of a number of cases that usually involve someone being murdered (while they may not start out that way, in the ones I have read so far they end up that way).
Continue reading The Kindaichi Case Files by Yozaburo Kanari & Fumiya Sato