{"id":457,"date":"2019-10-21T01:42:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T18:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/?p=457"},"modified":"2020-07-16T15:44:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T08:44:13","slug":"rediscovering-kindaichi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"Rediscovering Kindaichi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think a lot of people know about Kindaichi &#8212; a mystery manga about a high school detective who solves various murder cases. I came across Kindaichi in a manga rental store back in secondary school. The gruesome murders were terrifying for a kid my age, so I didn&#8217;t read more than a couple volumes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-460 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kindaichi-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kindaichi-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kindaichi-300x491.jpg 300w, https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kindaichi.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was one particularly memorable case in which the killer cuts one unique part off his victims&#8217; bodies. And then when those respective limbs\/torsos\/heads are put together, somehow they form a new body.<\/p>\n<p>In other words the number of parts and the body count do not match due to some clever arrangement on the killer&#8217;s part (something like there are 9 victims, but when re-arranged there are actually 10 bodies).<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t remember the exact details, only that it was a particularly haunting case.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Searching for the hazy story<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I was 12-13 when I first read that story. I was too young to understand its intricate plot. So for the past 13 or so years I&#8217;ve always had that in the back of my mind &#8211; to find that particular volume of Kindaichi and read it again.<\/p>\n<p>Problem is, I do not remember which volume it was, and nor do I remember any details from the case. There&#8217;s practically zero clues. I thought I&#8217;d never find that story again.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Praise online manga sites!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Just a couple of days ago, I decided to Google the case with keywords like &#8220;Kindaichi, body parts, put together&#8221;. I found a discussion thread on vozforums where someone says the story is called &#8220;The Hexagon Village Case&#8221; (<em>v\u1ee5 \u00e1n l\u00e0ng l\u1ee5c gi\u00e1c).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With some more Googling I found a site that scans the entire mange volume and lets you read for free. <em>(Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nettruyen.com\/truyen-tranh\/tham-tu-kindaichi-ban-dep\/chap-201\/314440\">link<\/a> to the website)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Needless to say I was\u00a0pretty\u00a0excited. My decade-long search has finally come to an end!<\/p>\n<p>That evening, I spent almost an hour devouring the entire volume. Unlike Conan, Kindaichi cases are often packed with complex details and can go on for 10 chapters at a time, and hence the lengthy reading time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_461\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-461\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-461\" src=\"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kindaichi-case-700x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"366\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mystery that has been in my mind all these years!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was not disappointed. Even by my now-adult standards it really is an amazing story &#8212; not only terrifying, but also deeply poignant and haunting.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up reading a couple more volumes of Kindaichi, but nothing came quite close to that Hexagon village case.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, just a quick recap of a fun titbit in my life. My sincere gratitude goes to the people who volunteer their own time scanning and uploading manga for free. You gave closure to a piece of my mind! If this was 10 or so years ago, I would have to spend days combing through a pile of books at a used bookstore and still might never find what I&#8217;m looking for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think a lot of people know about Kindaichi &#8212; a mystery manga about a high school detective who solves various murder cases&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[123,122,66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014,"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/1014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}