is a detective

Detective fiction

Detective fiction is a sub-genre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator , either professional or amateur, investigates a crime, often murder.-In ancient literature:...

 manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 series written and illustrated by Motohiro Katou

Motohiro Katou

is a Japanese manga artist, best known for creating the Q.E.D. series.He made his debut on game-related works for Enix. Presently he publishes his detective manga at Kodansha.In 2009, he received the Kodansha Manga Award for his work on Q.E.D..- Works :...

. The series was first serialized in Kodansha

Kodansha

, the largest Japanese publisher, produces the manga magazines Nakayoshi, Afternoon, Evening, and Weekly Shonen Magazine, as well as more literary magazines such as Gunzō, Shūkan Gendai, and the Japanese dictionary Nihongo Daijiten. The company has its headquarters in Bunkyō, Tokyo...

's Weekly Shōnen Magazine

Weekly Shonen Magazine

, also known as Shōnen Magazine, is a shōnen manga magazine published by Kodansha, first published on 17 March 1959. Despite some unusual censorship policies , it's mainly read by an older audience, with a large portion of its readership falling under the male high school or college...

between 2001 and 2005 during which ten tankōbon

Tankobon

, with a literal meaning close to "independently appearing book", is the Japanese term for a book that is complete in itself and is not part of a series , though the manga industry uses it for volumes which may be in a series...

volumes were produced.

Plot

Yo Mizunashi is a very ordinary high school teen, but he has no memories of his past. One day, he got both himself and his class-mate Yayoi Nagatsuki into trouble after saving a wounded mysterious man named "R".

The author Motohiro Katou explained in the manga that he wants to illustrate "a story which he wants to read when he was young", so here is the "Rocket Man".

Characters

– A boy with an empty past. A son of a doctors' family, very knowledgeable in medical science.

Responsible to solve the mysteries cases ( murder, fraud and etc) in the story.

– Yo's classmate. Yayoi is a spirited, tomboyish girl who excels in virtually every sport she attempts. Brave, athletic, pretty, and popular.

• R – An intelligence agent of a secret organization. He calls himself "R" because he wants to build a rocket to get himself to the space (thus the "Rocket Man").