Scan Mail, Vol. 1 Narrated By Housui Yamazaki Readable In Audio Books

faces were kind of wonky in some panels, but for creepy doneinone horror stories, this series delivers, I can understand why many perceive this manga series to be episodic, As the chapters progress the readers witness our main protagonist, Reiji Akiba, a detective with the uncanny ability to see things that many others cant, help individuals who are experiencing hauntings.
The concept of this manga honestly reminded me of Doctor Who meets Supernatural, which gave me the much welcomed nostalgia from watching those shows growing up! Less interesting than the synopsis sounds, this volume is a series of short stories, with the connecting plot threads just starting to emerge in the final tale.
The art is effectively creepy in spots, and I suspect subsequent volumes will be more interesting, Overall Rating: B
Synopsis: Created by the artist from Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Housui Yamazaki, the series follows private detective Reiji Akiba, who specializes in the paranormal.
Volumeopens with a nude model shoot, which immediately tells you why the books are wrapped in plastic, The shoot is in a river, and according to the location scout, it was beautiful, Apparently, it flooded, and everything from trash to a skeleton got washed into the area,

The photos reveal even more creepiness, Aside from the nude woman, there is also a headless girl in the photo, This is when we're introduced to the eccentric a nice way of saying very weird Akiba, He believes that the dead try to communicate with us every day, and that if we read their "mail", then we can help put them to rest, Sometimes, the dead aren't cooperative, so he also has special bullets with prayers on them that help put the more unruly spirits to rest as well,

I like Mail, but I hope it picks up steam, There are a lot of parallels to Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, which I love, but it doesn't quite capture the dark humor, It's more like Trigun meets horror, which could be fantastic if the series builds up steam,

sitelinkCheck out more manga and anime reviews at Hobotaku! Really enjoyed this, Reminds me of Doctor Who, in the style of Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Onto volume! Theres nothing special here, Move along now. Fun short story collection, but too episodic for me to be drawn in, I've read it before but I recently found volumeshrinkwrapped in a local comic store foroff, . . and figured I might as well try to acquire the rest, I'm going to laugh when I go to my parents' house and see all three volumes sitting on a shelf, Apparently I have a needtoratereview shelf from likemonths ago that, like many of these books, I forgot existed, So we're going to blast through them Mad Max style, in no way giving them the attention I am sure they deserve,

So this one seems special, I actually seem to have finished all three volumes of this one, So either they are pretty dang good, or they are light on words and I figured "why not read them all in a sitting"

These are all short story collections.
Each volume tells six stories about a ghost detective, He writes some stuff on a bullet, and says some words, and shoots ghosts with a gun that only hurts ghosts, I guess I don't recall it making much sense at

the time either, Thankfully, and unlike any other books on this shelf, I left myself notes, Go me!

There are some notes on each story reminding me what the plots are, but the opening scribble is "Good, Graphic novels are expensive, so not sure I'd pay those prices, Grab if your library has it, "

So there you go, Hopefully me from last summer wasn't an idiot,

."expensive for what it is, but still fun", This horror manga series follows private detective Reiji Akiba, who specializes in the paranormal cases, through his investigation of ghosts who are endangering the lives of the living, There are five stories in each volume and each is unique and creepy in its own way, I enjoyed reading it and look forward to reading more, After reading this issue I immediately bought the rest of the series, This manga scared the SHIT out of me, It's kinda touching and super creepy, and only occasionally gory, I'm not sure why Japan's weird fetish with molestation makes an appearance in every manga ever, but it only features in one story in the whole series, I could go without that, but the rest of the stories are SOLID: a ghost that plays hide and seek, a girl who crawls around searching for her LEGS, OMG SO SCARY.
And so good. Mail follows a ghost detective, or rather a detective who looks for ghost it's a series of shorts focused on different ghostly cases, with one chapter the last actually focusing on who our protagonist even is.
The stories felt a little samey there's only so many murderous child ghosts you can pack into one volume, and the ghost designs never felt as visceral as they needed to.
I wish it had more of an eye for character development, because it felt very insubstantial until the last chapter, and by then I was already halfchecked out of this concept.

Alright horror series. A little predictable and not scary,

Their other work Kurosaki Corpse delivery has a better cast and more clever stories, I love horror manga, especially short stories, So this was a quick, perfect collection to read in broad daylight, Great horror/ghost stories, though very little character development, I don't normally read horror because I have an overactive imagination and get freaked out but these were good, sitelink com/mangaa It was not too bad book, Not exciting and engrossed as Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, but readable, Private detective Reiji Akiba has a theory about those awkward moments and weird coincidences we all encounter in life, They are actually encounters with the dead their way of sending us a message, But you may not want to open such strange mail from beyond not unless you can see the ghostly attachment, like Akiba can, more like a.bit who's counting It's want bad, it was just nothing new, If you want to have a batch of classy Japanese horror stories presented in the form of manga then look no further!

And that's the main up and down for this piece.
As if you are into whole horror story thing and you want something new not the place to look for originality as you might know all of the tales of death and grudge, as this manga recycles all the good and tried things that we have seen in other media like anime or movies.


But if you are into it, and want more of the same goodold stuff then this one is definitely an invitation you can't refuse, You asked for it, and you got it grudgy ghosts of mutilating rapists, dead and restless children in trunk, long haired ghosts you get the picture,

And the main character is your classy Iseedeadpeople type, but with a resolve and has his sleeve of secrets he is not intending to share in the first volume.
Which is nice and hopefully, one day I'll buy rest of the batch to know how the story ends and to have my share of classy Japanese horror tales.


Didn't love, didn't hate simply liked it, Can something be terrifying and delightful at the same time If so, this is it, Housui Yamazaki 山崎 峰水 is a Japanese manga artist, He also has two other pseudonyms Yamazaki Hiroshi:山崎 浩, Hiro Yamazaki:ヒロ 山崎 He wrote and illustrated the three volume Mail series in,,, He currently illustrates The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, which is authored by Eiji Otsuka, .