Mikage Sawamura

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.

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...

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

Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki's Conjecture is a manga adaptation of the mystery light novel series centered around mystery and school life.

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...

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...

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...

University student Naoya Fukamachi has the ability to unerringly detect lies. He finds himself working for his eccentric associate professor of folklore studies, Akira Takatsuki, to investigate the supernatural. After closing the case on the eerie mystery of 4:44, the two head to the sea following reports of mermaid sightings. Then one summer evening, they find themselves tumbling into the...

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...