Soil

"There's no such thing as 'normal people'!"

- Det. Onoda

Soil is a mystery-horror manga by Kaneko Atsuhi

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 disparate investigators manage to solve the mystery before it's too late?


 * Abandoned Hospital:
 * Adults Are Useless
 * Axe Crazy:
 * Bedlam Prison:
 * Cargo Ship:
 * Comedic Sociopathy / What the Hell, Hero?: Det. Onoda is straight-up abusive to Det. Yokoi  and calls a rape case "stupid".
 * Complete Monster:
 * Cowboy Cop:.
 * Crazy Cat Lady: Sayuri, the resident homeless woman.
 * Critical Psychoanalysis Failure / Social Services Does Not Exist / There Are No Therapists: There is a school counselor who is actually quite good, but  kind of undermines her authority.
 * Couldn't Find a Pen / Room Full of Crazy:
 * Cut and Paste Note:
 * Depraved Dentist:
 * Determinator: Yokoi, who wants to get to the bottom of the mystery no matter what.
 * Implacable Man: The Blindfolded Man.
 * Dope Slap: Onoda to Yokoi, all the time and really hard.
 * Dojikko: Yokoi.
 * Driven to Suicide:
 * Fair Cop: Det. Yokoi isn't, although.
 * Freudian Excuse:
 * Gonk: Det. Yokoi is kind of gonky while an actual gonk spies on the school counselor.
 * Homage / Shout-Out: Those freaking spirals.
 * Housewife: Are there any fathers beside Mr. Suzushiro in Soil?
 * Irony: The residents of Soil hate the Susushiros for
 * Onoda wears a very unconvincing hair piece.
 * Kids Are Cruel: One of the masked boys is identified by.
 * Kill It with Fire:.
 * Loads and Loads of Characters: Each book has a list of main characters along with their status.
 * Mama Bear:
 * Mask Power: Tokita the archeologist is always wearing clay masks.
 * The Men in Black: Probably.
 * Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: A lot of the strange happenings have a reasonable (if disturbing) explanation -- until they don't, and it's implied they never will.
 * Messy Hair: Det. Yokoi can't do anything about her hair.
 * Meaningful Name: Soil is, plus there's all the Jomon artefacts in the soil.
 * Mind Screw
 * Nausea Fuel: Onoda is disgusting, Yokoi's, Sayuri has horrible burns, Tomiyama is constantly picking his nose,  , and.
 * Neat Freak:.
 * Ominous Multiple Screens / Sinister Surveillance:
 * One Head Taller: Sakura, who towers over everyone else..
 * Our Ghosts Are Different: . The "White Ghost"'s identity is still unknown.
 * Pure Is Not Good:  is obsessed with maintaining Soil New Town's purity against "foreign organisms".
 * Stepford Smilers: Pretty much everyone but especially.
 * Stepford Suburbia / Uncanny Village: Soil New Town.
 * Terrible Trio: The three older delinquints.
 * Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: It's strongly implied that the mystery of the Suzushiro's disappearance should be left alone for everyone's safety/sanity.
 * Those Two Guys and their reluctant teacher: Tomiyama and Seki, two junior high school boys who love the paranormal, who are reluctantly joined by Tokita.
 * Trash of the Titans: 's apartment is filthy.
 * Trauma Conga Line: Poor, poor
 * True Art Is Incomprehensible:
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds:
 * World of Chaos:
 * Yakuza:.
 * X Meets Y: Visually, Daniel Clowse meets Junji Ito with a dash of Black Hole.
 * You Are What You Hate:
 * World of Chaos:
 * Yakuza:.
 * X Meets Y: Visually, Daniel Clowse meets Junji Ito with a dash of Black Hole.
 * You Are What You Hate: