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Soil

Alternative Titles

Japanese: SOIL


Information

Type: Manga
Volumes: 11
Chapters: 90
Status: Finished
Published: Mar 12, 2004 to Nov 12, 2010
Genres: Mystery Mystery, Supernatural Supernatural
Theme: Detective Detective
Demographic: Seinen Seinen
Serialization: Comic Beam
Authors: Kaneko, Atsushi (Story & Art)

Statistics

Score: 7.471 (scored by 14161,416 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #32192
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #3126
Members: 7,189
Favorites: 111

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Volumes: /11
Chapters: /90

Synopsis

Something strange is going on in "Soil New Town." The sudden disappearance of a seemingly normal family leads the two detectives Yokoi and Onoda to the idyllic town in the middle of nowhere. What looks like a routine case at first quickly turns into a complex and deadly riddle where nothing is what it seems to be. Will the two desperate investigators manage to solve the mystery before it's too late?

(Source: MU)

Characters

Yokoi
Main
Onoda
Main
Tamura
Supporting

Reviews

Nov 1, 2017
Soil is a manga written by Atsushi Kaneko. This is what you would call a weird story, and it's true. This manga is different from any other you have read.

Soil is a crime and mystery work, not a classic one... It has some elements that make it a unique piece of art.

STORY - 7
This manga has a good story, a clearly defined plot with some main parts and a little background.
The main objective in the story is to find out what happened to a missing family and a police officer and where they are. The problem begins when the autor introduce weird ...
Feb 7, 2025
Mixed Feelings
Soil is brilliant but I hated reading it. It's one of those mystery stories that takes two completes to appreciate. The first time you'll be thoroughly confused, and the second time you'll see how consistent and simple everything was, once you understand how its "rules" work. Apt metaphor for a lot of things I suppose. It's also similar to Ergo Proxy in that regard, which I reviewed positively, but Soil has nowhere near the charm for me to want to bear with it.

The beauty of Soil lies in how everything goes back to its premise: oddities are sprouted by some original sin, and in ...
Apr 22, 2021
This is one of those works where the author believes existence is something’s everything and anything is nothing. Look, I’m not a writer, but I think I can write something better. Anyways, spoilers ahead.

You get glimpses of bizarreness in “Soil” from the beginning. The art is pretty limited yet somewhat detailed. The characters, even the main ones, seem normal and yet they have shticks that make them seem unreliable. The setting takes place in a normal-looking town yet the place feels quite ominous and fake. And the story just seems to be going on without ever having a predictable aura. Seems like a nice foundation ...

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