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“Son's time-travel quest to prove father's innocence in 1989 Hokkaido school poisoning case.”
The Ship of Theseus
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7.62
2,422 rank · 4,054 readers · 34 favorites
Seinen
Drama
Mystery
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Synopsis
Son's time-travel quest to prove father's innocence in 1989 Hokkaido school poisoning case.
On June 24, 1989, 21 people, among them children, were found poisoned to death in the elementary school of Otousu village in Hokkaido. Bungo Sano, a police officer of the same village, was arrested. Twenty eight years later, Sano's son, Shin Tamura, starts to suspect that his father, who continues to plead his innocence even after being handed the death penalty, may have been wrongfully convicted, and launches his own investigation. Upon arriving at the crime scene, a thick fog descends, engulfing Shin, and he finds that he has slipped back in time to the year 1989. The curtain rises on this authentic crime suspense that transcends time and space in a confrontation with the truth. (Source: Kodansha)
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “Although the beginning felt a little bit rushed, I feel like this was one of the top mangas of 2017 (this is my first review of a manga, so it may not be a great review): story: The story took...”
- 8 “Theseus no Fune was a complexed and interesting read. It draws inspiration from the well known paradox of the Ship of Theseus and it makes it into a mystery thriller. Originally thought about in...”
- 8 “This was really a very good and interesting read. A mass murder of people, a large portion of whom were children, marks this family with a lifetime of shame and condemnation. San...father, husband,...”
Verbosity
Short · 25%
Medium · 75%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 89 × 10 ch × vol
- Total read 11h 52m approx
- Published Jun 2017 – Jun 2019
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M46028 catalog