Noma was recognized for her focus on shoujo and mystery manga writing, and is best known for having written and illustrated the Puzzle Game manga, which she published in Hakusensha magazine's Hana to Yume magazine between 1983 and 2001. The manga garnered other numerous derivative works, such as Puzzle Game Mystére and Puzzle Game Succeed, which were unfinished with the author's death.
The twenty-third and now last chapter of the last manga will be published on the Hakusensha publisher's Love Silky website on June 26. On the other hand, Noma had only just started publishing the first manga in Akita Shoten's Monthly Mystery Bonita magazine in March, and the first chapter will be published in the magazine's August issue, next July 6, together with a posthumous message.
Synopsis of Puzzle Game
The school mystery story unfolds at Hazuru High School, where the authority of the Student Council is quite extensive, as they establish the funds for the respective institute clubs. On the other hand, students vary between bad and good, like any other school. Our protagonists, Katsuki and Daichi aspire to be detectives in the future, and as training they will try to solve the greatest mysteries around this institute.
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