ABOUT THIS PROJECT

This project is the result of Mikomi's insane love and obsession for the Kindaichi cases and utter heartbreak when she suspected that it had been dropped off the official roster by TokyoPop. Although we had received official word that no new Kindaichi translated manga would be on the market until further announcements, we were soon relieved to learn that this was not the case and a new volume was, in fact, scheduled for release! However, Mikomi jumped the gun and started this project in the short, short time between being misinformed by Tokyopop and the announcement that more volumes were on the horizon. C.C. and Melly kindly decided to humour her.

Although a new volume was promised by a reliable source, advertisement of this new revelation was nowhere to be seen. We suspected that this was a result of poor sales and a general lack of interest in the series. Here at The Kindaichi Project we are hoping to do some promotion for the series by offering some of the not-yet-translated cases for those who can only read English and need some incentive and experience with the series before investing in it. We all believe the series is worth purchasing and owning, and so we recommend - no we insist! - that you check out our Where to Buy page to add the 17 volumes released by TokyoPop to your own collection. A couple of Kindaichi novel cases that were not part of the manga series were published in Japanese and Chinese as well. However, we are not insane and so we will not be translating those cases. At all.

Ultimately, our intention is to a) provide English-speaking Kindaichi fans with a taste of Kindaichi in the cases that have not yet been translated and b) hopefully garner enough interest in the series and gather enough fans so that Kodansha and North American manga companies will see a market and continue to produce official English manga for the series. We love Kindaichi and we hope that everyone else will too.


OTHER KINDAICHI RESOURCES

We're not the only project around with the philosophy of "Let's help raise Kindaichi's profile!" The folks at Kindaichi Academy Works have been busy with providing anime and mystery fans with fansubs of the Kindaichi anime as well as both fansubs and scanlations of Detective Academy Q. We highly recommend that you check them out to help get your Kindaichi-fix!


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