亜樹 直 Agi Tadashi is a Japanese manga storywriter, novelist and screenwriter. His original name is Shin Kibayashi (樹林 伸 Kibayashi Shin). He was born in 1962 in Tokyo, and graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Musashi Senior High School and Waseda University School of Economics & Political Science. The penname "Tadashi Agi" is shared with his sister. Under the name Yuma Ando, he received the 2003 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for writing Kunimitsu no Matsuri.
Yeah, this was incredibly creepy. The story is set in a private and pretty fancy school where certain murder snuff films are going around. A student has gone missing and some members of the Q class have been assigned the task to infiltrate the school and investigate the incidents. While there, some even creepier situations come about and the Q class has the grapple with it all.
This was a little weird and it sort of got under my skin. The rumors of a Murder Collector, going around killing people for fun, is so horrifying. I wasn't able to read this at night, it was so sickening. The conclusion was done well and the deductions were really good. The case sure was creepy but the investigation was solid. I liked the spying done by the DDS Q class and am eager to start the next one.
3.5 Starting to get back in track with this volume, but I'm still a little bit hungover about Vol. 6... BUT the last chapter of this volume is *almost* enough to cure the cut in my heart.
THE COLLECTOR'S DEADLY GAME A chilling rumor about a snuff video tied to a student’s disappearance spreads online, prompting Detective Academy Principal Dan to send Ryu and Meg to infiltrate the elite Shibusawa Academy. Their mission takes a sinister turn when a new murder video surfaces, revealing a fresh victim claimed by the elusive killer known as "The Collector." Amakusa Ryu, a true genius, must unravel a complex alibi trick to expose the killer’s twisted game before more lives are lost.