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Japanese: MAIL メイル

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 3

Chapters: 18

Status: Finished

Published: Feb 10, 1999 to Jan 26, 2005

Genres: Drama, Horror, Supernatural

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Ace

Authors: Yamazaki, Housui (Story & Art)

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Score: 6.97¹ (scored by 903 users)

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Ranked: #9258²

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Popularity: #6237

Members: 3,142

Favorites: 33

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6.97

Ranked #9258Popularity #6237Members 3,142

MangaShounen AceYamazaki, Housui (Story & Art)

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Chapters: /18

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Synopsis

Private detective Reiji Akiba has a theory about those awkward moments and weird coincidences we all encounter in life. They are actually encounters with the dead; it's their way of sending us a message. But you may not want to open such strange mail from beyond—not unless you can see the ghostly attachment like Akiba can, and not unless you carry a gun that can kill what isn't alive like Akiba's aptly named Kagutsuchi—the tool between God and earth—digging a divine grave to lay to rest the evil dead.

(Source: Dark Horse Comics)

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Background

Mail was initially serialized in Ace Next, but moved to Shounen Ace when the magazine went defunct.

The series was published in English by Dark Horse from December 6, 2006 to March 14, 2007. The same company later published the series digitally from January 25, 2012 to April 4, 2012.

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Characters

Akiba, Reiji

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Mikoto

Supporting

Reviews

Jul 17, 2008

Jorg

Recommended

Story: 9
Mail is based on short stories featuring one recurring caracther trough the series. every chapter is about it's own ghost with it's own past. because of this you never get any real attatchment to the characters, but that's not needed (after all, they are just bait for the ghost :P). the short stories are introduced in a way so that you can easily get into the feal of it and has the engagement to keep you on the edge of your seat for the rest of the chapter.

Art: 7
the art is clean and nothing special, but it's drawn in very good angles so you ...

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Dec 2, 2022

TheLewdOtakuRe

Recommended

Mail follows a paranormal detective and occult specialist Akiba as he finds himself investigating lost souls.

His primary purpose is to give these souls a proper send off, so that they can enter the cycle of reincarnation or simply be damned for eternity.

Each chapter is stand alone in it's story telling though in the later half of the series we are given a bit more "lore" so to speak, and Akiba is given a sidekick and his background is explored more thoroughly, though I suppose thoroughly is a pretty generous term here given each instance of this is rather brief, though satisfying.

Each chapter begins the same ... way, and ends the same way, though each time there is slight deviation and changes suited for the story at hand in each chapter.

The author has a very good way of telling you just enough to keep you interested,this sounds like an insult, as if he's doing the bare minimum, but I assure you it's not. So little is said, but the story is so satisfying to read it executes just what it wants to do very well.

It's very succinct, and it's better off for that.

This story is kind of unique in the regard, that it is exactly what you would expect from it and it doesn't ever deviate from that narrative. It's about a dude, who does exorcisms and always arrives just in time to save the soul and the person being haunted.

I think the art is much like the story telling, very basic, but so intrinsic and detailed but beautiful. There really isn't anything special at all about the style but it's just so charming and compliments the story so well.

I think that if the story telling was slightly different, or perhaps the art was done by someone else this series just wouldn't work at all. It just seems so, right? I don't really know how to put it but I just like it a lot, it isn't the best thing in the world or anything but I was just very satisfied by what I read.

Atmosphere, art, writing, the settings, the people, the lore, the set ups, it was all just very solid and I think it's the perfect example of all of these things that aren't all that impressive in their own right building up a very satisfactory story.

I feel like the ending was rather abrupt, it leaves a lot of things left neglected that I feel like were going to be touched on. Like more about the "society" of priestly detectives, as well as the companionship of Akiba and you know who.

I hope that the Corpse Delivery Service delivered on that, but from what it seems this was a very nice story cut short, hence the addition of a sidekick before the abrupt end.

All of that said and done though, I really did enjoy this and I would recommend it to anyone into "horror" manga and light mystery, as well as episodic stories

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Aug 27, 2020

Tyrraell

Not Recommended

This manga follows the episodic adventures of one ghost hunter, while he does his odd line of work and exorcises the ghosts that his clients are bothered by. The story on paper sounds plain and the bland execution of it was quite unsatisfying, and borderline monotonous.

The stories presented in these 3 volumes are standalone, every chapter portrays the interaction of certain person with a ghost, and involves the main character, saving the day. For people with some understanding of the japanese urban ghost stories, the setting will feel familliar. After reading 3-4 of them you know well what's gonna happen ...