Katelyn Smith

Professor Mitani, a specialist in modern Japanese history, shows up at Takatsuki’s office clutching a mysterious doll. After Mitani posted a photo of it to his blog, someone claiming to be the granddaughter of the doll’s original owner reached out, describing how it used to grow hair and move around on its own. Takatsuki’s ghost story sensors start tingling, and...

Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki's Conjecture is a mystery light novel series centred around mystery and school life.

Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki's Conjecture, Vol. 6 is a mystery light novel series centred around mystery and school life.

Kunon the Sorcerer Can See, Vol. 4 (light novel) is a light novel series that takes an interesting perspective with a blind protagonist who is determined to heal his sight through magic.

Kunon the Sorcerer Can See, Vol. 1 (light novel) tells the story of Kunon Gurion, a young boy born without sight who is uncertain of his purpose in life. Everything changes when he decides to find a way to use magic to see. This challenging endeavour is a feat that no sorcerer has ever attempted, and it promises to be...

The mysterious lurks in that which fills the crevices between ordinary things—the Extraordinary. Akira Takatsuki, an associate professor of folklore studies and a collector of strange tales, has taken Naoya Fukamachi, a college student with the uncanny ability to detect lies, under his wing. When another of Professor Takatsuki's students reveals that she is living through an urban legend—needles falling...

We walk a path that straddles the boundary between reality and the next world. Fukamachi loses his mysterious ability to distinguish untruths after catching a cold! While he's out of commission, Professor Takatsuki makes an appearance on a panel next to an actress who claims to have seen ghosts! How will Takatsuki fare in an investigation of her haunted studio...

If you had died, professor, I would be all alone again. The truth behind Mana, the Miracle Girl of Okutama, comes to light! And soon after, the crew ventures out to investigate a mysterious cave said to enshrine an oni. There, they find not relics of a demon, but rather a human skull with a gaping hole... All this and...

The mystical is nothing but phenomena plus interpretation, Fukamachi-kun. Naoya Fukamachi’s ability to unerringly detect lies has left him friendless and isolated all his life. It certainly isn’t helping him meet new people in college. But when he catches the interest of the handsome but eccentric associate professor of folklore studies, Akira Takatsuki, he finds himself with a part-time job—research...

OFF TO SCHOOL! After developing the Glass Eye, a magic tool that grants him sight, blind sorcery prodigy Kunon Gurion heads to magic school in the city of Dirashik to further his studies. There, he finds cutting-edge facilities and a host of talented teachers and friends. Naturally, the whole school, including the immortal witch herself, is paying plenty of attention...

Kunon the Sorcerer Can See, Vol. 3 (light novel) by Umikaze Minamino, Laruha Laruha, Katelyn Smith. Knowledge is the best reward. Genius sorcerer Kunon has gotten his business on track and won the rare honour of concurrent membership in three of the magic school's factions. Now he plans to start a few joint research projects with his illustrious seniors. An...

A female Seiwa student comes to Professor Takatsuki and Naoya looking for advice. She tells them about going with her club friends to a building where the elevator supposedly transports whoever rides it to another world, and the next day, one of their group vanished without a trace. Next, the pair receive a request from afar and head deep into...

Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki's Conjecture, Vol. 1 (light novel) by Mikage Sawamura and Katelyn Smith. Truth is stranger than fiction... Naoya Fukamachi is a university student whose ability to infallibly detect lies has left him friendless and isolated. When he writes a paper about a strange festival he wandered into as a child, he catches the fancy of his folklore...