Hajime Kindaichi, the brilliant but underachieving high school junior, decides to join a TV crew to work on a 'hidden camera' style horror show. It sounded like fun: putting an unsuspecting actress in a situation that mirrors the well-known local myth, 'The Legend of Yukiyasha,' and filming her as she gets the life scared out of her. But when the actress is found dead, could it be the work of the real Yukiyasha? Maybe it's not just a myth. Now members of the TV crew are turning up dead as well. Kindaichi better get to the root of this mystery fast, or he could be next!

Hajime Kindaichi
Although this 17-year-old high school junior has an IQ of 180, Hajime's slacker attitude has earned him a reputation as poor student and something of a troublemaker. But he's actually a brilliant amateur detective, who uses his uncanny powers of observation and deduction to solve even the most unusual of cases. Hajime is the grandson of Kousuke Kindaichi, a celebrated detective in his own right.

Miyuki Nanase
Also a 17-year-old high school junior. She has been friends with Hajime since childhood. Unlike Hajime, she is a popular, straight-A student. And, unbeknownst to her, she is also Hajime's love interest.

Isamu Kenmochi
A police inspector who is an occasional partner of Hajime.

Kengo Akechi
An extremely smart police superintendent who enjoys a competitive friendship with Kindaichi.

Satoh Fumiya - Illustrator
Kanari Yozaburo - Writer

Satoh Fumiya is also the author of a manga series called Tantei Gakuen Q.

Kanari Yozaburo has written the manga series, Minzoku Gakusha Yakumo Tengu Densetsu Satsujin-jiken, which was serialized in the Japanese periodical, Young Jump.