{"rewrite":{"id":"r_cb5d6f51665c0db0a512119d","clusterId":"c_7dac999c7393fa5aa82632b3","slug":"shinji-ohara-launches-moto-shojo-tantei-yamada-chizuko-manga","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Shinji Ohara Launches Moto-Shojo Tantei, Yamada Chizuko Manga","summary":"Shinji Ohara launched a new manga, Moto-Shojo Tantei, Yamada Chizuko: Saigo no Jiken kara Sujunengo, on Shogakukan's Yawaraka Spirits platform on September 30. It follows Kazuo Sasauchi, a young man who moves to Osaka for college and boards in an old western-style house owned by his great-aunt, the kimono-wearing, cigarette-smoking former girl-detective Chizuko Yamada, whose past returns to haunt her.","whyItMatters":"Ohara returns to the detective template he built across Nijū-Mensō no Musume and its spinoff, now on a web platform rather than a print magazine.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe new series puts Chizuko Yamada at the center of a household mystery. Kazuo Sasauchi arrives in Osaka for college and takes a room in an old western-style house, where his great-aunt lives in a kimono and smokes. She once worked as a girl-detective, and that past catches up with her.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOhara\u0026#39;s earlier manga, Chiko, Heiress of the Phantom Thief, ran five years and ended in 2007 at eight volumes. The spinoff Nijū-Mensō no Musume: Utsushiyo Yoru began in Monthly Comic Flapper in October 2007, and its 11th and final volume arrived in 2014. Both draw loosely on Ranpo Edogawa\u0026#39;s Kaijin Nijū-Mensō novels.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Shinji Ohara's new lead is a college student boarding with his great-aunt, Chizuko Yamada. Ohara's return to a mystery-minded heroine lands on Yawaraka Spirits, a platform built for short-form web manga, not a print magazine.","twitterPost":"Shinji Ohara puts a male college student in the boarding house of a former girl detective on Yawaraka Spirits, a web platform rather than a print magazine.","threadsPost":"Shinji Ohara's new series centers on Kazuo Sasauchi, a young man boarding with his great-aunt Chizuko Yamada, a former girl detective whose past resurfaces. Ohara is publishing it on Shogakukan's Yawaraka Spirits, a web-first platform, not a print magazine.","newsletterBlurb":"Shinji Ohara has a new manga running on Shogakukan's Yawaraka Spirits. Moto-Shojo Tantei, Yamada Chizuko: Saigo no Jiken kara Sujunengo centers on a college student in Osaka and his great-aunt, a former girl-detective. Ohara's earlier detective manga, Chiko, Heiress of the Phantom Thief, ended in 2007, and its spinoff ran through 2014.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Anime News Network\",\"url\":\"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-10-04/niju-menso-no-musume-shinji-ohara-launches-new-manga/.242479\",\"title\":\"Nijū-Mensō no Musume's Shinji Ohara Launches New Manga\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4310,"outputTokens":716,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1791180874,"createdAt":"2026-10-05T06:10:54.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-05T06:13:25.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T06:13:25.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_7dac999c7393fa5aa82632b3","canonicalTitle":"News\nNijū-Mensō no Musume's Shinji Ohara Launches New Manga","representativeArticleId":"a_fe3cbd47de88503a655f0be8","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[\"Nijū-Mensō no Musume\",\"Moto-Shojo Tantei, Yamada Chizuko\"],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"Shinji Ohara\"],\"type\":\"announcement\",\"domain\":\"manga\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-05T03:44:31.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-05T03:44:31.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T06:13:21.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Anime News Network","url":"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-10-04/niju-menso-no-musume-shinji-ohara-launches-new-manga/.242479","title":"News\nNijū-Mensō no Musume's Shinji Ohara Launches New Manga"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":["Nijū-Mensō no Musume","Moto-Shojo Tantei, Yamada Chizuko"],"work_titles":[],"studios":[],"people":["Shinji Ohara"],"type":"announcement","domain":"manga","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}