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Shiki

“Deadly epidemic strikes isolated village as mysterious deaths turn victims into vampires, threatening to overrun the living.”

Shiki

7.93
1,018 rank · 23,635 readers · 504 favorites
Shounen Vampire Mystery Supernatural Suspense
42 chapters · 11 volumes · 2007 - 2011 · Manga
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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 She wants nothing more than to live in the city, far away from the villagers and their outdated ways of thinking.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.

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8.2 /10

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median 8 mode 10 σ 1.55
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σ 1.55 · some divergence

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Not enough recommend signal yet

Score over time

↓ 1.78

Running avg · Jun 2008 → Dec 2023

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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

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