Shinrei Tantei Yakumo

Project Status: ACTIVE This project has been updated within the past 3 months.

Volume 1 Nihon Bungeisha Cover

Shinrei Tantei Yakumo (心霊探偵 八雲 / Psychic Detective Yakumo) is a light novel series written by author Manabu Kaminaga with illustrations done by Katoh Akatsuki in Nihon Bungeisha publication and later in the Kadokawa Bunko publication with cover arts done by Yasushi Suzuki. Currently there are 9 volumes published, as well as 3 volumes containing side stories.

Also a spin-off prequel series titled Ukikumo Shinrei Kitan (浮雲心霊奇譚 / Ukikumo Psychic Mysterious Story), with illustrations by ZUNKO, lauched as the author's 10th anniversary project. With one volume already released, it is also currently being serialized in Shousetsu Subaru.

Story Synopsis

...Three friends from university, drunken, decided for a test of courage in the abandoned "haunted" building behind their university. They didn't wish for it, but they encountered a ghost??? Or?...

For the sake of a friend possessed by a ghost, a young college student Ozawa Haruka visits her university's Movie Research Club. Haruka finds inside a young man - Saitou Yakumo, who is believed to have psychic powers. The two of them begin to investigate the weird occurrences that are happening around Haruka's friends together, as Haruka is convinced that Yakumo is just a fake psychic. Will they be able to find the culpit who murdered the person possessing Haruka's friend before he kills all of the friends who visited the abandoned building and Haruka as well? All in all, Haruka finds out that this young man is the real deal! Yakumo's red left eye can see what others cannot - the spirits of the dead. With this power and mostly Yakumo's great people perception they're solving this confusing, un-earthly case.

This case is just the start of the string of incidents happening around them. And Haruka is unlucky enough to get involved and then she always brings new cases to Yakumo, just to his annoyance!

Translation

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Updates

• 21st March, 2015 - Laute completed Ukikumo 1 - The Way of the Red Eye.
• 25th March, 2015 - Laute completed Ukikumo 1 - The Way of Love.
• 2nd April, 2015 - Laute completed Ukikumo 1 - The Way of a Curse. Volume Ukikumo Shinrei Kitan 1 - The Way of the Red Eye completed.
• 17th April, 2015 - Laute completed Yakumo 9 - Extra File.
• Translation caught up with the published volumes.

Past updates can be found on the old updates page.

The Shinrei Tantei Yakumo / Psychic Detective Yakumo series by Manabu Kaminaga

Volume 1 - The Red Eye Knows (Complete at Laute) Novel Illustrations Prologue File 01 - The Locked Room File 02 - The Dark Tunnel File 03 - The Message from the Dead Extra File - Lost Article Afterword

Volume 2 - That Which Connects Souls (Complete at Laute) Novel Illustrations Prologue File 01 - Vessel File 02 - Exorcism File 03 - Resurrection Epilogue Extra File - Homecoming Afterword

Volume 3 - The Light Beyond the Darkness (Complete at Laute) Novel Illustrations Prologue File 01 - Disappearance File 02 - Curse File 03 - Grudge Epilogue Extra File - Repayment Afterword

Volume 4 - Feelings to Protect (Complete at Laute) Novel Illustrations Prologue File 01 - Ignition File 02 - Blaze File 03 - Embers Epilogue Extra File - Photograph Afterword

Volume 5 - Connected Feelings (Complete at Laute) Novel Illustrations Prologue File 01 - Missing File 02 - Touching File 03 - Yearning Epilogue Extra File - Illicit Love Afterword

SECRET FILES - bonds (Complete at Laute.) Novel Illustrations File 01 - Each Wish: Prologue File 01 - Each Wish: Chapter 1 File 01 - Each Wish: Chapter 2 File 01 - Each Wish: Epilogue File 02 - The Cry of the Dead File 02 - Epilogue Extra File - Attraction Afterword

Volume 6 - To the Limits of Despair - Prequel (Complete at Laute) Novel Illustrations Prologue File 01 - Prophecy File 02 - Fluctuation (Yin)

Volume 6 - To the Limits of Despair - Sequel (Complete at Laute) File 02 - Fluctuation (Yang) File 03 - Separation Epilogue Extra File - Evening Cherry Blossoms Afterword

Volume 7 - The Location of the Spirit (Complete at Laute) Novel Illustrations Prologue File 01 - Altar File 02 - Witch File 03 - Release Epilogue Extra File - Passenger Afterword

Volume 8 - The Vanished Spirit (Complete at Laute) Novel Illustrations File 01 - Suspicion File 02 - Escape File 03 - Ensou Epilogue Extra File - Fireball Afterword

Volume 9 - The Spirit of Salvation (Complete at Laute) File 01 - Encounter File 02 - Frenzy File 03 - Salvation Epilogue Extra File - The Pieces on the Board Afterword Afterword (Paperback)

The Shinrei Tantei Yakumo - Another Files side stories series by Manabu Kaminaga

ANOTHER FILES - the tree of deceit (Complete at Laute) File 01 - The Three Testimonies File 02 - The Curse of Memory File 03 - The Tree of Deceit Epilogue Afterword

ANOTHER FILES - the coffin of prayer (Complete at Laute) File 01 - The Cursed Spring File 02 - That Which The Spring Reflects File 03 - The Coffin of Prayer Epilogue Afterword

The Ukikumo Shinrei Kitan / Ukikumo Psychic Mysterious Story spin-off prequel series by Manabu Kaminaga

Volume 1 - The Way of the Red Eye (Complete at Laute) The Way of the Red Eye The Way of Love The Way of a Curse

Project Staff

• Supervisor:Onizuka-GTO
• Project Manager: Angelanime

Translators

ACTIVE

• Laute at Laute Light Novel Translation

INACTIVE

• yamikumo46
• Angelanime

Editors

ACTIVE

• Angelanime

Series Overview

Nihon Bungeisha Edition

• 心霊探偵八雲　赤い瞳は知っている (October 05, 2004, ISBN 978-4-8355-8344-0)
• 心霊探偵八雲2　魂をつなぐもの (March 15, 2005, ISBN 978-4-8355-9104-9)
• 心霊探偵八雲3　闇の先にある光 (July 15, 2005, ISBN 978-4-286-00001-5)
• 心霊探偵八雲4　守るべき想い (November 15, 2005, ISBN 978-4-286-00008-4)
• 心霊探偵八雲5　つながる想い (March 15, 2006, ISBN 978-4-286-00002-2)
• 心霊探偵八雲6　失意の果てに (December 01, 2006, ISBN 978-4-286-00004-6)
• 心霊探偵八雲　ＳＥＣＲＥＴ　ＦＩＬＥＳ　絆 (June 01, 2007, ISBN 978-4-286-00006-0)
• 心霊探偵八雲7　魂の行方 (February 28, 2008, ISBN 978-4-286-04855-0)
• 心霊探偵八雲8　失われた魂 (August 21, 2009, ISBN 978-4-286-08126-7)
• 心霊探偵八雲9　救いの魂 (March 26, 2012, ISBN 978-4-04-110068-4)

Kadokawa Bunko Edition

• 心霊探偵八雲　赤い瞳は知っている (March 25, 2008, ISBN 978-4-04-388701-9)
• 心霊探偵八雲2　魂をつなぐもの (June 25, 2008, ISBN 978-4-04-388702-6)
• 心霊探偵八雲3　闇の先にある光 (September 25, 2008, ISBN 978-4-04-388703-3)
• 心霊探偵八雲4　守るべき想い (February 25, 2009, ISBN 978-4-04-388704-0)
• 心霊探偵八雲5　つながる想い (June 18, 2009, ISBN 978-4-04-388705-7)
• 心霊探偵八雲　ＳＥＣＲＥＴ　ＦＩＬＥＳ　絆 (October 24, 2009, ISBN 978-4-04-388706-4)
• 心霊探偵八雲6　失意の果てに（下） (September 25, 2010, ISBN 978-4-04-388710-1)
• 心霊探偵八雲6　失意の果てに（上） (October 25, 2010, ISBN 978-4-04-388709-5)
• 心霊探偵八雲7　魂の行方 (October 25, 2011, ISBN 978-4-04-388711-8)
• 心霊探偵八雲8　失われた魂 (August 25, 2012, ISBN 978-4-04-100478-4)
• 心霊探偵八雲　ＡＮＯＴＨＥＲ　ＦＩＬＥＳ　いつわりの樹 (July 25, 2013, ISBN 978-4-04-100911-6)
• 心霊探偵八雲　ＡＮＯＴＨＥＲ　ＦＩＬＥＳ　祈りの柩 (June 20, 2014, ISBN 978-4-04-101773-9)
• 心霊探偵八雲9　救いの魂 (December 25, 2014, ISBN 978-4-04-101945-0)

Ukikumo Shinrei Kitan, published by Shueisha

• 浮雲心霊奇譚　赤眼の理 (November 26, 2014, ISBN 978-4-08-771589-7)