Box of Goblins

Between August and October, 1952, a series of unusual crimes takes place in Musashino and Mitaka: the attempted murder of 14-year-old Kanako Yuzuki, Kanako's abduction from the strange research "hospital" where she was recovering, then abductions of other girls, followed by their severed limbs in custom-fitted boxes being placed in surrounding towns. News editor Morihiko Toriguchi and crime fiction writer Tatsumi Sekiguchi investigate with the help of onmyōji Akihiko Chūzenji.

• buddhism
• detective
• based on novel or book
• journalism
• kidnapping
• blackmail
• police
• supernatural
• murder
• unrequited love
• religion
• post war
• seinen
• neo-noir
• japanese mythology
• shinto
• anime
• psychological