Mizu ni Sumu Oni

Devil in the Water
水に棲む鬼

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Synopsis

This collection of horror short stories that includes tales of murder, romance and the supernatural. The title story follows Natsuko, a maid at the Hagiwara mansion who bears an exact resemblance to a recently deceased woman of the household. Other stories include a cat who watches for his master and a ghost, a work of art which leads to revenge through possessed bodies, and a woman who haunts the husband who murdered her but whom she still loves. The mood and pacing of these stories are a kind of Japanese gothic, steeped in the culture but as clear to readers as the passions we all share. (Source: MU)

Publication notes

Mizu ni Sumu Oni was published in English as Devil in the Water and as an e-book by ComicsOne on 2000.

Published

1989 to 1990

Authors

Hatsu, Akiko

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MAL rank: #18629
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Main characters

Masayuki Tachibana0 fan favorites
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Appears in The Blood-Red Shadow. Masayuki is Fuyuko's husband. His business merged with the Tachibana family's shortly before Fuyuko's accident. No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .
Fuyuko Tachibana0 fan favorites
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Appears in The Blood-Red Shadow. Fuyuko has been suffering from memory loss after falling off a cliff behind her house. With the help of Chiyo, the house maid who'd been in her family since Fuyuko was a child, Fuyuko begins piecing together what happened. No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .
Yuriko Izumi0 fan favorites
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Appears in The Vigil. Yuriko is the lover of a photographer who leaves for another country to document the war. Every night she misses him, and is visited by a black cat. She finally understands why when the photographer's brother gives her some photographs, one of them featuring the photographer with a black cat on his shoulder. No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .
Matsuo0 fan favorites
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Appears in In the Depth of Summer. Matsuo is Akino's husband. He lives in Tokyo, while she lives in the mountains for health reasons. He finds the mountain air stifling and his wife's behavior odd. No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .
Akino0 fan favorites
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Appears in In the Depth of Summer. Akino is the daughter of a wealthy family, and lives in a house in the mountains because the fresh air is beneficial for her health. However, her doctor stated that her illness is only psychosomatic, yet she refused to return to Tokyo. No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .
Ayaka Fujie0 fan favorites
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Appears in Taking the Color of Flowers. Ayaka is a 17-year-old orphan girl whom Sentaro, Keishiro's grandfather, had taken under his care. Her father was the mysterious painted Seisui Sakakibara (real name Seijiro, and Sentaro's adopted brother), and left her one painting of Kae, a woman rumored to have been his lover. When the painting goes missing, Ayaka is possessed by the spirit of Kae, who demands that Keishiro find the painting. No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .
Keishiro Nishina0 fan favorites
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Appears in Taking the Color of Flowers. Keishiro takes over his grandfather's business of appraising and selling modern Japanese paintings. Against his grandfather's hopes of becoming a painted himself, Keishiro prefers to only admire art. He used to be engaged, but his fiancée died in a plane crash three years prior. No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .
Fumiaki Shinohara0 fan favorites
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Appears in The House of Magnolias. Fumiaki is a writer who moves to the countryside with his cat, Eme. While Eme senses the spirit in the house, Fumiaki doesn't. No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .
Takaya Hagiwara0 fan favorites
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Appears in The Devil in the Water. Takaya hires Natsuko on his uncle's recommendation, and almost fires her when he discovers the resemblance to his deceased wife, Mioko. He took on Mioko's last name when they married, and succeeded the family business. No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .
Natsuko Higuchi0 fan favorites
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Appears in The Devil in the Water. Natsuko is hired as a live-in maid at a mansion, but is treated coldly because she resembles the Takaya's deceased wife, Mioko. After discovering what had happened to Mioko, she reveals to Takaya that she is actually Mioko's twin sister. No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .