MPD Psycho

Multiple Personality Detective Psycho (多重人格探偵サイコ Tajuu Jinkaku Tantei Saiko) is a manga series by Eiji Otsuka and drawn by Sho-u Tajima, later adapted as a live action six-episode TV miniseries by director Takashi Miike. The main character is a detective suffering from multiple personality disorder, hence the name. The first volume in the series was published in February, 1997 by Kadokawa Shoten, and it consists of eleven volumes, the latest published on 2006.

Starting out as a violent detective series with a twist (the twist being the variant personalities that take over Detective Amamiya at various intervals), the series evolves into an exceptionally complex and involved sci-fi conspiracy story.

Major Characters

• Amamiya Kazuhiko / Nishizono Shinji
  

- A police detective known to his colleagues as Kobayashi Yousuke; an inoffensive family man involved in tracking down a serial killer who mutilates his victims by severing their limbs. When the killer sees Yousuke on television he claims to recognise something in the detective and mutilates Yousuke's wife. Yousuke eventually tracks down the killer at which point a new personality called Nishizono Shinji, an arrogant and callous psychopath, emerges and shoots the killer. From this point onward, the personality of Yousuke is replaced by Amamiya Kazuhiko, a cool-headed, serious criminologist who is arrested and imprisoned for the murder of the serial killer. Kazuhiko's personality fluctuates several times during the course of the story, most commonly switching between Amamiya Kazuhiko and Nishizono Shinji in the early chapters. It is usually clear to the reader which personality is in control at any given time as Amamiya Kazuhiko is short-sighted and wears glasses, whereas Nishizono Shinji does not require glasses.

• Isono Machi - An intelligent female criminologist who runs a private consultancy firm. She employs Amamiya Kazuhiko upon his release from prison and invites him to live in the large apartment which serves as home to herself and her sister as well as the HQ of her business.

• Sasayama Tooru - Somewhat bumbling police detective and friend of Kazuhiko and Machi. Short tempered and easily confused, Sasayama is nevertheless a "straight arrow" and reliably on the side of the good guys.

• Isono Miwa - Younger sister of Isono Machi. She is initially introduced as a schoolgirl with a forceful personality who occasionally helps Machi and Amamiya in their cases. As the series progresses, she becomes more important as revelations about her role in the conspiracy that runs through the book are revealed. Isono Miwa does not appear in the TV mini-series.

• Nishizono Tetora
  

- In appearance, a young teenaged version of Amamiya Kazuhiko, Nishizono Tetora also carries the psychopathic personality of Nishizono Shinji, although the personality of Shinji is far more dominant in Tetora. Nishizono Tetora does not appear in the TV mini-series.
Lucy Monostone - A deceased former American pop star and terrorist, Lucy Monostone is thought by the mysterious corporation at the heart of the conspiracy to be the perfect killer. While genetic engineering can recreate Monostone's body, the challenge appears to be recreating his soul in order for the ultimate murderer to be reborn. It seems that this can only be achieved by combining a number of personalities, representing the different parts of Monostone, into a single vessel.

My inspiration: this manga series contain a lot of psychology, blood, violent and sexual related. It reflect the negative side of modern social. The story line require the audiences to thinking a lot. However this is a worth see manga.