Karakurizoshi Ayatsuri Sakon

Author: Maro Sharaku, Takeshi Obata

Run: 1995–1996

Chapters: 32

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Sakon Tachibana, a young puppeteer and grandson of a living-national-treasure bunraku master, solves the mysterious cases he stumbles into with his child puppet Ukon as his partner. The series laces its detective stories with an unsettling undercurrent of suspense.