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Alternative Titles

Synonyms: The Conductor
Japanese: コンダクター


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Type: Manga
Volumes: 4
Chapters: 12
Status: Finished
Published: Jun 24, 2010 to May 24, 2011
Genres: Drama Drama, Horror Horror, Mystery Mystery, Romance Romance, Supernatural Supernatural, Suspense Suspense
Theme: Psychological Psychological
Demographic: Shoujo Shoujo
Serialization: Asuka
Authors: Nokiya (Art), Kaminaga, Manabu (Story)

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Score: 7.511 (scored by 20322,032 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #29262
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #4217
Members: 5,287
Favorites: 71

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Synopsis

Professional flutist Naomi Kuchiki has been suffering from strange nightmares where she sees a man holding a skull. Unable to fall asleep, she consults with psychologist Matsuzaki—who is anything but conventional. He immediately deciphers Kuchiki's reason for coming to his office and tells her that, beneath these incomprehensible dreams, there might lay a deep-rooted memory she wishes to forget.

At the same time, a headless skeleton is found in an empty apartment following an anonymous call. Inspector Tsuyoshi Ishikura suspects that the caller is involved in the case and has set up the crime scene as a challenge to the police. Going off of a mysterious apple-like symbol on the window frame and a photo from five years ago, he sets out to find the one responsible.

Elsewhere, the grand return of musical director Yasafumi Yuuki leads to a fallout between violinist Akiho Maya—Kuchiki's friend and Yuuki's ex-girlfriend—and her fiance Kazuo Tamaki, a pianist with an injured hand. With all the pieces being brought together, the tragic mystery behind Kuchiki's memory loss is about to unfold.

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Conductor has been published in French by Éditions Ki-oon from November 11, 2011 to June 12, 2012, and in German by Tokyopop.
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Characters

Kuchiki, Naomi
Kuchiki, Naomi
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Matsuzaki
Matsuzaki
Main
Yuuki, Yasafumi
Yuuki, Yasafumi
Main
Ishikura, Tsuyoshi
Ishikura, Tsuyoshi
Supporting
Aragaki
Aragaki
Supporting
Maya, Akiho
Maya, Akiho
Supporting
Tamaki, Kazuo
Tamaki, Kazuo
Supporting

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4 Recommended
1 Mixed Feelings
0 Not Recommended
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Dec 6, 2020
listingexisting
Recommended
'Conductor' does surprisingly well with fairly weak-seeming material.

The protagonist and supporting characters are nothing you haven't seen before: plucky and well-meaning female lead, cool genius with a heart of gold, severe (and severely wealthy) musical prodigy... Nonetheless, I was led to genuinely care about their travails at least to some degree, and the repressed-memory twist is well-executed if very pulpy.

I'd have liked Naomi to be more proactive, but her emotional life was well-drawn and I cared about her wellbeing more than her objectively-more-interesting supporting cast.

If you like campus novels/manga, Gothic melodrama (especially of the modern kind) and conspiracy mysteries, this isn't a bad ...
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Nov 12, 2018
silvermoonsky
Recommended
I believe with any book, manga or piece of literature we all interpret them differently. This manga had many elements of what I was personally going for after wanting a mix of "The name of the flower" and "Keishichou Tokuhanka 007".
-Mystery/Detective
-Drama
-Romance, I'd say more josei
-Psychological; horror?
Although it focused on one character as the lead in no way was she the typical super feminist heroin or super weak crybaby, I'd say she was a mixture which made her mind, her actions and her personality more real than some other manga's I've read like this.
I read it all in one sitting and not once wanted ...
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Aug 30, 2015
Nervin
Mixed Feelings
Selective memory loss can lead to several types of problems such as not knowing what people are talking about, or if it was an unpleasant memory, it can lead to nightmares. What if this memory is linked to a terrible occurrence, possibly a murder? The Conductor is a mystery/psychological manga that also incorporates elements of the drama, romance and horror genre.

The story of The Conductor revolves around Naomi Kuchiki, a flutist, who has very unpleasant nightmares; consequently she decides to consult a psychologist who concludes that she has selective memory loss. At the same time the police inspector finds a headless mummy in an apartment, ...
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