Little is known about the boy detective in Japanese detective
fiction despite his popularity. Who is he, and what mysteries does
he unveil about cultural understandings of youth in Japanese
society? Manga, Murder and Mystery answers these questions by
exploring the figure of the shonen (boy) detective in commercially
successful manga series such as Detective Conan, The Case Files of
Young Kindaichi, Death Note and Moriarty the Patriot. The book
explores how these popular works tackle the crisis of young adult
culture within the socioeconomic climate of Japan's 'lost decade'
and Heisei era, broadly speaking. Mimi Okabe shows how detective
manga materialized in a nation undergoing a state of crisis and how
the boy detective emerged as a site of national trauma to address
perceived youth problems but in thematically different ways.
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