Mail (manga)

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Mail
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The cover of the first volume of Mail
Genre Horror [1]
Magazine Shōnen Ace
Demographic Shōnen
Original run2004 – 2005
Volumes3
December 06, 2006 [4] 978-1-59307-566-8
  • "The Whine Cellar"
  • "Hide-and-seek"
  • "Twins"
  • "The drive"
  • "Ka-tsu-mi"
  • "Eyesight"
In the first chapter a headless skeleton is discovered during a nude photoshoot at a rural stream. One of the photos has the figure of a headless girl in the background. The photographers ask Akiba to investigate. In chapter two the occupant of a flat gets a letter from Akiba warning her off the ghost of a child playing hide-and-seek in her apartment building. The third chapter has Akiba investigate on behalf of a girl that is terrorized by the ghost of her deceased twin sister. In the fourth chapter Akiba is racing after a woman who bought a car with a ghost in the trunk. Chapter five has Akiba investigating a case in which a girl died fulfilling an urban legend in which everyone is killed who photographs a ghost. The final chapter deals with Akiba's backstory. He was blind from birth but medicine was curing his eyes. When he was still in hospital he met a bearded man with glasses who tells him he would see even more things in the future.
2 August 1, 2004 [5] 978-4-04713-635-9 January 31, 2007 [6] 978-1-59307-591-0
  • "The doll"
  • "The baby"
  • "The elevator"
  • "The cottage"
  • "The commencement"
  • "The portrait"
The first case deals with a possessed doll. The second chapter has a woman and her infant son being terrorized by the ghost of the stalker of her husband. The third case is about a ghost split in half due to an elevator accident. In chapter 4 three youths find evidence of outerworldly activity in the cottage they are staying at. The fifth chapter is about a woman whose GPS device is constantly rerouting her to the location of her elementary school. The final chapter of the volume deals with a possessed portrait.
3 February 25, 2005 [7] 978-4-04713-704-2 March 14, 2007 [8] 978-1-59307-592-7
  • "Mikoto"
  • "Cries of agony"
  • "Suppressed"
  • "Motherly instinct"
  • "Seafloor"
  • "Ruins"
In first chapter Akiba ties up lose ends from his childhood when he was blind. He seals up the ghost of the deceased girl named Mikoto he played with as a child into a bullet and then shoots that bullet into a body he assembled, reanimating her. In the second chapter Akiba requests Mikoto to stay at their apartment because she attracts ghosts. Promptly a ghost starts to haunt the apartment. The third chapter is about the ghost of an e-mail stalker haunting its old contacts. Chapter four has a woman return to the hotel in which her child died. The fifth chapter has three teenage girls going for a swim at a small beach. One of the girls had found a message in a bottle as a child reading "I'm in the sea. Find me.". In the final chapter a different group of teenage girls are playing a game trying to find if one of them is haunted by a ghost.

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References

  1. ↑ Johnson, Craig. "Mail v1". Manga Life. Archived from the original on October 22, 2007. Retrieved June 24, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Mail". cinematopics.com. Archived from the original on June 20, 2010. Retrieved December 15, 2009.
  3. ↑ メイル (1) (角川コミックス・エース) (コミック). ASIN   4047136344.
  4. ↑ "Mail Vol. 1 TPD". Dark Horse Comics . Retrieved December 15, 2009.
  5. ↑ メイル (2) (角川コミックス・エース) (コミック). ASIN   4047136352.
  6. ↑ "Mail Volume 2 TPB". Dark Horse Comics . Retrieved December 15, 2009.
  7. ↑ MAIL (3) (角川コミックス・エース) (コミック). ASIN   4047137049.
  8. ↑ "Mail Volume 3". Dark Horse Comics . Retrieved December 15, 2009.
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