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“Two detectives investigate school bombings aided by a spirit-seeing girl and an amnesiac's prophecy.”
Arcana
ARCANA (アルカナ)
7.11
7,777 rank · 3,366 readers · 16 favorites
Seinen
Detective
Comedy
Horror
Mystery
Romance
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Synopsis
Two detectives investigate school bombings aided by a spirit-seeing girl and an amnesiac's prophecy.
Arcana features a humorous plot starring two detectives, Murakami and Nakabayashi, and an unidentified mysterious girl who possesses the power to see spirits. As the story unfolds, Murakami and Nakabayashi have been assigned to a serial bombing case that specifically targeted elementary school kids. Neither of them have any idea of what to go about. Their only source: the prophecy of a patient suffering from amnesia and currently undergoing rehabilitation at a local mental clinic. The detectives try to uncover the secret behind the mystery girl as job reassignments and supernatural occurrences occur more and more frequently.
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Community consensus
Derived from 2 sampled reviews
8.5
/10
What 2 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8.5
mode 8
σ 0.50
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Strong agreement
σ 0.50 · scores cluster tight
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 0.50
Running avg · May 2009 → Jun 2014
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “I liked this manga and you could just see the policeman and her getting along. Overall this manga was a little creepy because of the way they drew the characters. I liked how she had all of these...”
- 8 “While I had higher expectations for this manga regarding the depth of the story and characters, it turned out to be a quite a fun and easy read. While the author said that it was quite a broad...”
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Short · 100%
Medium · 0%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 14 × 2 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 52m approx
- Published Jan 2000 – Jan 2001
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M1359 catalog