Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation

Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation

First volume of the series, published by Shueisha in Japan on May 2, 2005
ムヒョとロージーの魔法律相談事務所
(Muhyo to Rōjī no Mahōritsu Sōdan Jimusho)
Genre Dark Fiction, Action
Manga
Written by Yoshiyuki Nishi
Published by Shueisha
English publisher Viz Media
Demographic Shōnen
Magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump
Original run December 2004March 2008
Volumes 18 (List of volumes)
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Muhyo and Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation (ムヒョとロージーの魔法律相談事務所 Muhyo to Rōjī no Mahōritsu Sōdan Jimusho?) is a manga series by Yoshiyuki Nishi. The series premiered in Japan in Weekly Shōnen Jump in December 2004, and ran until its conclusion in March 2008. It follows a young genius Magical Law Executor, Toru Muhyo and his assistant, Jiro Kusano as they track and find ghosts, then send the spirits to heaven or hell depending on the account of their lives in his magical law book. The individual chapters of the series were collected and published in 18 tankōbon volumes by Shueisha.

The series is licensed for an English language release in North America by Viz Media, which released the first volume of the series in October 2007 under its "Shonen Jump" manga line.

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Written by Yoshiyuki Nishi, Muhyo and Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation premiered in Japan in a December 2004 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump. New chapters were published weekly until the series concluded in the March 3, 2008 issue.[1] The individual chapters were collected and published in 18 tankōbon volumes by Shueisha.

The series is licensed for an English language release in North America by Viz Media, which released the first volume of the series in October 2007 under its "Shonen Jump" manga line.[1][2] As of June 2010, the company has published seventeen of the eighteen volumes of the series.[3]

Reception

For the week of June 5—June 11, the 12th volume of the premiered in seventh place in the list of weekly bestselling manga series in Japan.[4] In Jason Thompson's online appendix to Manga The Complete Guide, he describes the early volumes as having a "haunt of the week flavor", and describes the manga overall as maintaining a "quirky and sometimes creepy" tone, despite the plot becoming "conventionally melodramatic".[5]

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