Junkyouju Takatsuki Akira no Suisatsu

Naoya Fukamachi is a university student whose ability to infallibly detect lies has left him friendless and isolated. But when he writes a paper about a strange festival he wandered into as a child, he catches the fancy of his folklore studies professor Akira Takatsuki, a handsome and eccentric man with a passion for all things mysterious. Soon, Naoya finds himself working as Akira's assistant, helping him to interpret an array of unexplainable phenomena, from haunted objects and cursed effigies to urban legends. As this odd couple continues their investigations, however, Naoya realizes that his professor has had a few bizarre childhood experiences of his own...

(Source: Yen Press)

Junkyouju Takatsuki Akira no Suisatsu was adapted into a live-action TV series in 2021.

The series has been published in English as Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki's Conjecture by Yen Press under the Yen On imprint since May 23, 2023.