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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: #31832
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #3127
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

Sep 18, 2024
“But the world isn’t just one thing! To each his own world!”

Strange, no?

Well first impressions, I would, in fact, call it pretty strange. And as the story progresses, it only gets even stranger as the echoes of the Jomon period come forth with the town’s vile underbelly disemboweling itself onto the scene in a swirling maelstrom of distrust and violence. It’s sort of reminiscent of a work I’m surprised to see hasn’t been mentioned in any other (to be fair I only check MAL) reviews. That, of course, would be Mark Frost and David Lynch’s incredible TV series: Twin Peaks.
That unraveling mystery that only seems ...
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 ...
Feb 2, 2024
My first impression about the art while reading the prologue chapter was: Did Zainul Abedin draw this manga?

'Soil' was certainly a hard take on mystery genre from my behalf as I didn't like the art to begin with. The characters have a natural fluidity and the beginning also smelled like supernatural mystery knocking on the door which, at first, I thought could become worthwhile. But at the end, without my sole purpose of finishing this just for 'the finishing', there's no reason to continue this.

The story becomes too dense like it's art at some point & at some point it becomes really bothersome to read ...

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