นักสืบตายแล้ว เล่ม 1

The Detective Is Already Dead Manga #1

by mugiko (Art), nigozyu (Story), อนิษา เกมเผ่าพันธ์ (Translator)

ชื่อของผมคือคิมิซึกะ คิมิฮิโกะ นักเรียนม.6 ซึ่งครั้งหนึ่งเคยเป็นผู้ช่วยนักสืบจากคำพูดประโยคสั้นๆว่า ‘นายมาเป็นผู้ช่วยของฉันก็แล้วกัน’ จุดเริ่มต้นของเรื่องราวเกิดขึ้นเมื่อ 4 ปีก่อน ณ ระดับความสูงหนึ่งหมื่นเมตรเหนือพื้นดิน ผมถูกเลือกให้เป็นผู้ช่วยของนักสืบผู้งามประหนึ่งเทพธิดานามเซียสต้า บนเครื่องบินที่กำลังถูกจี้!?

“ฟังนะ ฉันจะหาจังหวะเด็ดหัวศัตรู ระหว่างที่พวกมันง่วนอยู่กับการยิงผู้ช่วยให้พรุนเป็นรังผึ้ง”

“เฮ้ คุณนักสืบ อย่าวางแผนการประเภทว่าเอาชีวิตฉันไปเป็นเหยื่อล่อจะได้มั้ย”

พวกผมร่วมหัวจมท้ายผจญภัยกันสารพันแบบนับจากวันนั้น— กระทั่งความตายมาพรากเราจากกัน ผมซึ่งถูกทิ้งให้เหลืออยู่เพียงลำพัง จึงกลับสู่ความเรื่อยเฉื่อยที่เรียกว่ากิจวัตรประจำวัน...ถามว่าแบบนั้นดีแล้วแน่หรือ ก็แล้วทำไมจะไม่ดีเล่า ในเมื่อมันไม่ได้สร้างความเดือดร้อนให้ใคร และที่สำคัญเหนืออื่นใด
นักสืบคนนั้นได้ตายไปแล้ว...

Genres: Manga, Light Novel, Mystery, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Comics Manga

316 pages, Paperback

First published November 21, 2020

Reviews

[Steph ✨ · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5✨️

[Moriah Venable · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this title while looking at manga and the premise caught my attention. I requested both the manga and the light novel but the manga came in first.

I was hoping for more back story about the detective but maybe we will see that in the later manga volumes and more in the light novels.

I am curious who the heart belongs to and who the previous owner is thinking of. Feels alittle suspect through with the timing.

[Kayt O'Bibliophile · Rating 2 out of 5]

Review of volumes 1-4

Kimihiko Kimizuka has an almost supernatural talent for being pulled into things: he'll get pulled into a flash mob on his way to school, but if he takes back ways to avoid all the people, he'll inevitably come across a drug deal. So he's upset but not entirely surprised to have been strong-armed by unknown men into carrying a briefcase aboard a plane. And when the attendants make the strange call to ask if there's a detective on board, and there is, and she grabs Kimizuka to be her assistant, well, it's weird, but it happens.

And they have an adventure! And then she dies.

This started off strong. The setup is intriguing, the detective, Siesta, has secrets we want to uncover. Yes, it's there in the title, but she's given such interesting characterization that we know there HAS to be more involving Siesta at some point, even if it's flashbacks or just the currently-living characters uncovering more information.

The problem is that when you take a step back from active hostage situations, these characters have no chemistry and the writing's not good, either.

The story is set a year after Siesta's death, and Kimizuka has been grieving and living a "lukewarm" life, devoid of supernatural evil organizations like his life with Siesta. Then a random classmate demands he help solve a mystery for her, and suddenly he's got stuff to do again.

Kimizuka is such a boring, bland character. There's no other way to put it. How interesting he is, how good he is at something, seems to change mainly based on what's required of the story. Natsunagi, his classmate and maybe-new-friend, is even worse. Is she a manic pixie dream girl? Is she tsundere? Is she a generic blushing high schooler? Who knows! Not this story! Even Siesta, for the parts of the story that involve her, is boring: unflappable, all-knowing, gentle smile.

(The lone bright spot is Saikawa, who shows up after a couple volumes, and has a distinct personality AND actually feels like a character and not a paper doll.)

The cases themselves are pretty boring, and little information about larger goings-on is parceled out even by the 4th volume. Any action sequences are usually unclear, and I keep having to flip back to try and figure out what happened or how someone got somewhere, only to find I missed it not by mistake, but because the art itself didn't show things well.

I picked this up because it sounded interesting, and I knew there was an anime released a few years ago. Unfortunately, the contents are mediocre at best, and this has taken away any desire to look up the anime.

[Sheepy · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's a rather interesting idea so far! I'm curious about how it develops from here and the whole heart situation. It seems so obvious, but it could all be a clever missdirect.

[Janet · Rating 2 out of 5]

The title intrigued me but this first volume didn't grab my interest.
Manga dialogue is often (but not always) too silly for me.

[Ashe Catlin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Given the title I was expecting this to focus on our two leads, until the girl dies at the end given the title but it actually had a bit more meat to it. The girl actually dies quite early on and we skip to one year later where a guy is approached by another girl to solve a mystery for her.

She's wants to find a person and it's getting pretty intriguing as it's about finder the organ donor, that she received a heart from, turns out she has memories of the previous owner even though they've never met. Googling it, yeah turns out it's a thing that really happens. Glad to be reading something so refreshing as so much manga these days are just rehashes of one another, this one is oozing with originality.

[Daiki Goto · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked up the original work because I was curious about it from the first episode of the anime, but I still liked it. The freedom of the story, which moves back and forth between various genres such as mystery, science fiction, and romantic comedy, is frankly good. The story, which runs through genres inexhaustibly, symbolizes the time Siesta and Kimihiko spent traveling together. And I think the reason why the story does not blur is that the relationship between Siesta and Kimihiko is well drawn. It will be interesting to see how the story develops in the future, such as why Siesta died and how the dead Siesta will be involved in the story.

[Bexa · Rating 3 out of 5]

This feels a little predictable and there are just breasts shoved in your face every other page, which some people like but it's not for me. I like the idea, a middle school kid is always becoming involved in crimes or emergencies through no fault of his own, and somehow gets caught up with a detective. For three years he helps her and then she dies. We don't know how or why and then four years later a strange girl shows up and demands he helps her find this mysterious person she is longing for. This is episode zero and episode one... then we just jump around. I want to know more and also don't. We'll see what volume 2 brings.

[Heather · Rating 2 out of 5]

This volume was a little ridiculous, character behavior wise. I hope it's just first volume syndrome, I'll give it another chance. I did like the idea of a transplanted heart with leftover feelings and desires. I don't really care for the girl it's attached to.

[Jason Scott · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had been interested in watching the anime... but.. uh, this isn't good. It's a narrative mess with stuff jumping through time periods, it's leading up to a big-but-entirely-obvious reveal that doesn't happen. Meh.

[Karrie Wagner]

Not my fav but could get interesting.

[Kathleen · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent adaptation of the light novel, with different character designs.

[Sesana]

Way too much upskirt for me to persist past the first chapter.

[Nimra · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was a decent read. The plot seems a little obvious but I like the it nonetheless.

[ReadingFrog · Rating 1 out of 5]

1.5 stars.

[Victoria Kitty · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's got an interesting premise but so far it's not been the most entertaining. I'm willing to still give it a go.

[poet · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's fine. Seems like it would make a way better light novel. Maybe I should seek that out instead.

[Diana H. · Rating 3 out of 5]

thats a lot of words youre using there, shame they dont do anything

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

Art was well done. The story was too dry and drawn out for my taste. Sometimes I was just confused.

[Jasmine Lofgren · Rating 3 out of 5]

the plot was predictable and there where js boobs shoved into itevery page turned 😭

[nisemono偽者 · Rating 3 out of 5]

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