Mystery to Iu nakare
Don't Call It Mystery
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Mystery to Iu nakare

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Do Not Say Mystery
Japanese: ミステリと言う勿れ
English: Don't Call It Mystery
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Type: Manga
Volumes: Unknown
Chapters: Unknown
Status: Publishing
Published: Nov 28, 2017 to ?
Genres: Award Winning Award Winning, Mystery Mystery
Demographic: Josei Josei
Serialization: Flowers (Monthly)
Authors: Tamura, Yumi (Story & Art)

Statistics

Score: 8.141 (scored by 13441,344 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #5102
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #2111
Members: 9,925
Favorites: 126

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Synopsis

Average college student Totonou Kunou's usual morning making curry gets interrupted when police officers come knocking at his door, questioning him about his whereabouts on the night before. As it turns out, one of his classmates was found dead near his house—and the police take Totonou to the station as a prime suspect for murder.

Having no close relations with the victim, Totonou claims he is innocent since he had no reason to harm him. But when a witness places him at the crime scene, he must remain under custody longer than he first anticipated. When he starts to interact more with the members of the police department, they realize Totonou is no ordinary suspect. Although a bit hard to deal with, Totonou is also highly observant—as he guesses each of the members' personal dilemmas with just a handful of clues.

With evidence against him continuing to pile up, Totonou must use his deductive skills to solve the mystery behind his classmate's death to clear his name and find out who is framing him.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Background

Mystery to Iu nakare was nominated for the 12th and 13th Manga Taisho Awards in 2019 and 2020, placing second and sixth in the final ranking, respectively. In 2019, the manga was nominated for the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award in the General category; it later won the 67th award in the same category in 2022. The series was also nominated for the 44th Kodansha Manga Award in the General category in 2020, and the 26th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Award in 2022. The manga ranked four consecutive times on the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! for the Female Readers division from 2019 to 2022.

The series has been published in English as Don't Call It Mystery by Seven Seas Entertainment as 2-in-1 omnibus volumes since May 30, 2023. The manga has also been released in French by Noeve Grafx since May 13, 2021.

Mystery to Iu nakare was adapted into a Japanese television drama that was broadcast on Fuji TV from January 10, 2022, to March 28, 2022. It was also adapted into a live-action film that premiered on September 15, 2023.

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Reviews

Jul 16, 2024
Preliminary (12/? eps)
Immersion: 9/10
For the 2h that I read the manga, I forgot about reality. It really was that effective. It wasn’t so much the characters per se, but the plot that gripped my attention the second I began to read. From then on, it was a continuous ride through well thought out, (unique!) mysteries.

Main character : 7/10
The main character is interesting all right. Though his self professed intelligence is a little too vast and deterministic. He declares theory as dogma and decries dogma as theory. Still, there is reasoned empathy in his thoughts and that’s what I liked. He was a little 2d though ...
Mar 12, 2023
Preliminary (12/? eps)
I. Intro:

I am very picky, especially when it comes to detective series, which does me no good when there are so few mangas belonging to this genre. I went into Mystery to Iu nakare with no expectations, and came out with it being my favorite series to date (in only 12 chapters, at that!).

I would say Mystery to Iu nakare is fairly episodic, and were I to describe it in a few words they would be: profound, engrossing, and enlightening.

I’m writing this review, in the hopes that even one person decides to pick it up and give it a try.

II. Characters:

Totonou and "The ...
Feb 18, 2023
Preliminary (12/? eps)
Totonou Kunou is a quirky college kid who just wants to be left alone. Despite his unassuming exterior, he's insanely smart and perceptive. But Totonou isn't a bigheaded genius, he's just an introverted student who really likes curry and really, really wants to be left alone.

Every story arc presents a situation that Totonou gets dragged into unwillingly, with a quandary he has to unravel. He collects observations over the course of each chapter that lead him to the truth behind the mystery. His truth bombs are impossible to predict and yet make so much sense every time. And that's because the mangaka seeds the ...

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