Like most of the other books in this series, this is a set of short stories about the Kurosagi crew. The first involves a group of suicides who all were found wearing a hat from a children's cartoon. The second is about Sasaki serving the Japanese equivalent of jury duty on a murder case. The final tale is a short, creepy one about a fellow committing ritual killings in a park.

I enjoyed this set very much. The mix of different subjects was fun, going from theme park to courtroom to outdoors, and I always enjoy when the stories focus on real-life aspects of Japanese culture, like the second one in this volume. There were plenty of reversals of tropes here, as in many of the series, but I think the funniest was when Sasaki is feeling ill and Makino begins questioning her as to whether she is pregnant, following a common-place set-up, and Sasaki responds by showing her her box of pads, proving that that is definitely not the problem.

Added to K00kaburra's Manga and Graphic Novels bookbox.

Taken from k00kaburra's Manga/graphic novel box with thanks!

I knew nothing about this series, but it was quite interesting. Additionally, 大塚 is a name I should probably learn to write...

The cover art makes much more sense in retrospect.

Saturday, October 19, 2019: headed out in nimrodiel's manga/graphic novel box. Here's the bookbox journal.

USPS tracking 9549 0104 3304 9292 6490 54
ETA 11/8/19

Released for AlterEgoZoe's Spook-tacular challenge.

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I'm so glad you've found this book! Won't you make a journal entry so the previous readers know that it's safe with you?

How and where did you find the book? What did you think of it? What are you going to do with it next?

This is now your book, for you to do with as you please: keep it as long as you wish, pass it to a friend, or maybe even leave it where someone else can find it!

If you've ever wondered where your books go after they leave your hands, join BookCrossing and you may find out: you'll be able to follow your books as new readers make journal entries - sometimes from surprisingly far-flung locations.

BookCrossing: making the whole world a library!

This came back in my manga and graphic novel book box. I have been watching the journal entries on the coloring book box journal and wondering what will end up back with me. There was quite a lot of variety in the box at the end and I am happy to see many books that I have not read before.

This is a series I have been reading all out of order, and this is very much past the books I have read. However, I really enjoyed the stories in this volume. This one was nice in that the tones for all of the stories were different. But, I think the second and third ones were the ones I enjoyed most.

Thanks for putting this into my book box hyphen8, it reminds me that I need to see what other volumes my local library has.

Mailing off in the manga and graphic novel book box.

Passing to a friend to read and place in their community bookshelf.