Introducing New Manga Enigma

Enigma エニグマ

INFO:

Is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Kenji Sakaki that is seralized in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine. Kenji Sakaki was an assistant to Akira Amano, the mangaka of Katekyo Hitman Reborn.

STORY:

The story follows the protagonist Haiba Sumio who attends Tokyo High School. Haiba Sumio has an interesting ability called the dream diary, a diary in which when he falls asleep can predict future events. Eventually, the story's antagonist, Enigma, captures seven students, all of whom have special powers, who must take part in the e-test. In order to successfully complete the e-test, passwords hidden throughout the school must be found within 72 hours. Upon completion of the e-test, Enigma promises to bestow their deepest desire that is written on cards that they received once captured. At the same time, there are "shadows" around the school that attempt to kidnap the students. It is later determined that the "shadows" are in fact humans who have fallen victim to prior shadows.

Characters:

Sumio Haiba (灰葉澄生, Haiba Sumio) is the main protagonist of the manga series Enigma. He has been chosen by ǝnígmǝ to participate in the 5th e-test.Year 1 Class A. His ability is the dream diary.Dream Diary gives him an ability to predict future while sleeping and write it in the book, which serves as Diary of the occurances to come.His birthday is on February 29th.

Shigeru Kurumiya (來宮繁, Kurumiya Shigeru)Year 1 Class A. Her ability is currently unknown. She is Haiba Sumio's childhood friend.

Moto Hasekura (支倉元, Hasekura Moto) is a highschool student in the same school as Sumio and Shigeru,Year 1 Class E. He has been chosen by ǝnígmǝ to participate in the 5th e-test. His ability is to make things turn invisible/disappear, he also describes it as being in one place, but then just disappearing for the moment.Moto has shown to be one insecure teenage boy. His insecurity mostly comes from his inability to look good on photos, because of which he gets picked on by most of the guys from the School's baseball team.Moto also shown to trust Sumio with everything, especially after Sumio shown to rely on Moto.His moto is that he always takes the safest path in life.

Jirō Matsurigi (祀木次郎, Matsurigi Jirō) is a 3rd-year highschool student,Year 3 Class B. He has been chosen by ǝnígmǝ to participate in the 2nd and 5th e-test. His special power is to shrink things by removing numbers that express objects (Cubic Subtraction).With this ability he can reduce the measurements of objects at his will. The only conditions of this ability is that he cannot add to the object and it does not affect humans. He is the first in this e-test to be captured by a shadow. Once he was saved, he had the choice to swallow a pill to stop the shadow transformation. Instead of swallowing the pill, he saves it to force Kurisu Ryou to take it and save him. It is explained that he has already taken place in a past e-test as the sole survivor and wanted to take place in another to save Kurisu Ryou.

Hiina Kujyōin(栗須良, Kujyoin Hiina)is a 2nd-year highschool student,Year 2 Class C. She has been chosen by ǝnígmǝ to participate in the 5th e-test.Hiina was born in rich and royal family of Meiji period. Her father was aspiring young president of a Company, while her mother was intentional beauty, titled Miss Universe once. But, even although Kujyoin family looked like perfect family, it was not. Both of her parents had lovers of their own, and because of the family prestige, other people came to see Hiina as someone who is overconfident and arrogant.Hiina's talent is called Third Hand. Third Hand gives her an ability, as the name states, of using third, invisible hand, which only leaves black hand prints. Although having this ability is useful, Hiina states that she doesn't really need it.It was shown that if Third Hand takes any damage, her own hands will have the same damage.

Ryō Kirusu (栗須良, Kirusu Ryō) is a 2nd-year highschool student. He has been chosen by ǝnígmǝ to participate in the 5th e-test, but he was left behind. He has been trying to escape the school ever since. He teamed up with Sumio Haiba in the 5th e-test with the help of Jirō Matsurigi.First, it was shown that Kirusu mistakenly entered the e-test, when Enigma mistook him for Aru Mizusawa.But later, it was revealed that Kirusu was actually a shadow, and that he was in the e-test dimension of the School, since he didn't get out during the previous e-test.It is also shown that Matsurigi was in that e-test, too, and sole reason of Matsurigi's return to the current e-test is to save Kirusu, who he left in the previous test.Kirusu's talent is called Flat World. It gives him talent to enter any kind of photographs and control the inside world of the photograph. It was revealed that he can suck other people into the photograph world, but only two at the time. He can also use every object in the photograph world, and even alter it's shape a bit.

Aru Mizusawa (水澤艾爾, Mizasawa Aru) is a 2nd-year highschool student,Year 2 Class H. When he was captured he was in a costume he was wearing for a part-time job as a police mascot. It's later revealed that his ability allows him to transform in his costume.He/she has been chosen by ǝnígmǝ to participate in the e-test because of his/her special power to transform. During the e-test, he/she is transformed into the comic character Pit-kun. His/her real appearance is yet to be seen.

Takemaru Sudō (祟藤竹丸, Sudō Takemaru) is a 3rd-grade highschool student,Year 3 Class G. He has been chosen by ǝnígmǝ in the 5th e-test. His ability is currently unknown. He is very strong-headed as well as strong.

My Review:

Brother and i really like this manga because of its mystery and suspense plot.Right from the start,we were shocked by the kidnapped of seven unrelated student inside the school building at night.All of them have special ability,their power was related to this test and revealed their past eventually.Not only that,through this test,this 7 student may have changes in their mind and developed.Thanks to its suspense plot,this manga was starting being famous in Japan or just because its published on Japan famous magazine Shonen Weekly Jump?Whatever reason,you sure don't want miss up this quality manga and been attracted for it.