Zaregoto Series
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Kubikiri Cycle went through a number of drafts. Tomo Kunagisa was originally intended to be the series' protagonist, but during the rewriting process, Nisio Isin realized that "Boku" had become more important.


In Zaregoto series:
1. Kubikiri Cycle: Aoiro Savant to Zaregototsukai (クビキリサイクル 青色サヴァンと戯言遣い, Kubikiri Circle: The Blue Savant and the Nonsense User); 2002/2/5
It's the vacation of a lifetime, a trip to a remote island filled with geniuses–and murder.

On Wet Crow's Feather Island, a tiny speck in the Sea of Japan, lives Akagami Iria, the exiled daughter of a powerful family. Born into great wealth, she was a princess of the highest pedigree–until she was cut off by the leader of the Akagami Foundation. For the last five years, she's lived on Feather Island with her maids. But she hasn't been alone. She has invited the best minds Japan has to offer to come and stay with her.

And so nineteen-year-old college student Ii-chan and his best friend, computer genius Kunagisa Tomo, find themselves as Iria's guests at her elaborate mansion. Surrounded by fascinating women–a chef, a fortune-teller, a scholar, and an artist, not to mention his own friend Tomo–Ii-chan is feeling a little overmatched intellectually. But the sudden discovery of a grisly murder sends the island into shock. And Ii-chan discovers that he does possess a bit of genius: the ability to discover what is real and what is fake. .. who is who they claim to be–and who is a killer. (Source: Del Rey)

2. Kubishime Romanticist: Ningen Shikkaku, Zerozaki Hitoshiki (クビシメロマンチスト 人間失格・零崎人識, Strangling Romanticist: Human Failure, Hitoshiki Zerozaki); 2002/5/8
College is a whole new adventure, rife with challenges, opportunities, and cold-blooded killers.

Fresh from unmasking an assassin on a posh island paradise, Ii-chan is finally an ultra-cool college student—jaded, sarcastic, and not exactly consumed by academic ambition. Now more interested in angst and anomie than in catching killers, Ii-chan figures that danger is a thing of the past. Wrong! There's a homicidal maniac loose in Kyoto, a perp with the soul of an artist whose talent is apparent in the inspired way he festoons his crime scenes with body parts.

But then murder hits much closer to home. Hours after attending a friend's birthday party, Ii-chan learns that the guest of honor, a pretty co-ed, has been found strangled to death. What's more, Ii-chan is the prime suspect. The lackadaisical college kid had better hope that his crime-solving skills weren't just a fluke, because the killer is within striking distance... of him. (Source: Del Rey)

3. Kubitsuri High School: Zaregototsukai no Deshi (クビツリハイスクール 戯言遣いの弟子, Hanging High School: The Apprentice of the User of Nonsense); 2002/8/5

4. Psychological 1: Utsurigi Gaisuke no Zaregotogoroshi (サイコロジカル（上） 兎吊木垓輔の戯言殺し, Psychological (First Part): Utsurigi Gaisuke's Nonsense-Killing); 2002/11/5

5. Psychological 2: Hikaremono no Kouta (サイコロジカル（下） 曳かれ者の小唄, Psychological (Second Part): Ballad of the Pulled); 2002/11/5

6. Hitokui Magical: Satsuriku Kijutsu no Niyounomiya Kyoudai (ヒトクイマジカル 殺戮奇術の匂宮兄妹, Cannibalism Magical: The Niounomiya Siblings of Massacre Magic); 2003/7/5

7. Nekosogi Radical 1: Juusan Kaidan (ネコソギラジカル（上） 十三階段, Uprooting Radical (First Part): Thirteen Stairs); 2005/2/5

8. Nekosogi Radical 2: Over Kill Red vs. Daidai naru Tane (ネコソギラジカル（中） 赤き征裁 vs. 橙なる種, Uprooting Radical (Second Part): Overkilled Red vs Orange Seed); 2005/6/5

9. Nekosogi Radical 3: Aoiro Savant to Zaregototsukai (ネコソギラジカル（下） 青色サヴァンと戯言遣い, Uprooting Radical (Third Part): The Blue Savant and the Bearer of Nonsense); 2005/11/7

10. Kidnap Kidding: Aoiro Savant to Zaregototsukai no Musume (キドナプキディング　青色サヴァンと戯言遣いの娘, Kidnap Kidding: The Blue Savant and the Daughter of the Nonsense User); 2023/02/08


Contains 71 chapters as of volume 9.