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Japanese: SOIL


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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)

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Score: 7.471 (scored by 14161,416 users)
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Ranked: #32192
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Popularity: #3126
Members: 7,189
Favorites: 111

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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?

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Yokoi
Yokoi
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Onoda
Onoda
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Tamura
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4 Recommended
3 Mixed Feelings
2 Not Recommended
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Feb 6, 2025
Labautas
Recommended
SOIL
Author: Kaneko Atsushi
“This person loves me too much”
“The insane here is you”
“Self consciousness only contradicted her existence, reality, and time broke her”
“Why…?”

Craziness. Insanity. Mania. There is everything in this damn place, this damn city called Soil, at first glance, is just the city of dreams for many, but even the most beautiful dream can become the most horrible nightmare. The reality we see is just a false plan that hides something beyond the understanding of every living being. People who say they have seen the “strange organisms” are classified as crazy, but they saw something unusual. Maybe this is the origin of their insanity. Of ...
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Feb 7, 2025
typewritermonkey
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 ...
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Feb 2, 2024
zidanepiz
Not Recommended
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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