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“Post-mortem memory extraction reveals murder victims' final moments, raising ethical questions about privacy and psychological impact.”
Top Secret
秘密 －トップ・シークレット－
7.81
1,451 rank · 4,643 readers · 67 favorites
Shoujo
Psychological
Award Winning
Drama
Mystery
Sci-Fi
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Synopsis
Post-mortem memory extraction reveals murder victims' final moments, raising ethical questions about privacy and psychological impact.
What if it's possible to extract some two or more years of a person's memories (projected onto visual display for all to see) from the brain after the person's death? It would certainly be beneficial for solving difficult murder cases since the memories would display the victims' last moments. But at what cost? What of the dead's privacy as strangers poke about in their most private memories? What about the effects the imageries may have on the persons whose jobs require going through psychotic murderers' minds and experience whatever emotions and feelings these murderers felt as they skin and disembowel their victims? In The Top Secret, Shimizu-sensei explores the idea of re-displaying images of decedents' memories from their brains.
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Derived from 3 sampled reviews
9.7
/10
What 3 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 10
mode 10
σ 0.47
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.47 · scores cluster tight
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 0.67
Running avg · Apr 2013 → May 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “Finally completed this manga. The artstyle had captured me a long time ago and the synopsis was also very interesting. It shows the good and bad faces of human kind in a very tragic yet beautiful...”
- 10 “Story 10: This is a real good detective manga. The protagonists use MRI-scan to see what the victims hve seen before death. You might think that there's not much mystery left to solve, but that's...”
- 9 “NOTE: This story is not for everyone. I do NOT recommend this manga if you cannot take gore. There are at times VERY graphic depictions of organs and blood and things along those lines. Story (9) :...”
Verbosity
Short · 33%
Medium · 67%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 22 × 12 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 56m approx
- Published Feb 1999 – Jun 2012
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M3404 catalog