“Deadly epidemic strikes isolated village as mysterious deaths turn victims into vampires, threatening to overrun the living.”
Shiki
屍鬼
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Synopsis
Deadly epidemic strikes isolated village as mysterious deaths turn victims into vampires, threatening to overrun the living.
Nothing ever happens in the village of Sotoba. In fact, it is viewed as nothing more than a hick town by its most outgoing and fashionable resident, Megumi Shimizu. She wants nothing more than to live in the city, far away from the villagers and their outdated ways of thinking. So when a new European-style house is built on a hill in the village, Megumi believes its residents must be cultured and refined, so she decides to pay them a visit. However, Megumi doesn't return home that night. After a grueling search, she is found the next day, weak and anemic, with strange bite marks on her. But Megumi is just the first victim in what will soon become an epidemic in Sotoba as the bodies start piling up. The village doctor Toshio Ozaki, along with the priest Seishin Muroi, the loner Natsuno Yuuki, and the Tanaka siblings Kaori and Akira, begin investigating the strange deaths. But the answer to their predicament may be more than any of them can handle, for soon the dead could outnumber the living.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 9 sampled reviews
What 9 readers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.55 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↓ 1.78
Running avg · Jun 2008 → Dec 2023
- 7 “This is a pretty great manga series!! I've never been so addicted to a story. I finished this one in two days! I really loved it, the amount of clues this manga leaves out in the open is honestly...”
- 10 “Shiki is a manga based off a novel. Drawn by Fujisaki Ryu, this manga is one not to miss. It takes place in a small, Japanese town of a population of 1300. We start off with Megumi, a 15-year old...”
- 10 “Man, this is my favorite manga of all time. It is by far not the best written, the most insightful, nor the best drawn. However, it is the only manga that has duped me before I dumped it, and it is...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 42 × 11 ch × vol
- Total read 5h 36m approx
- Published Dec 2007 – Jun 2011
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M2981 catalog