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Hmmm.....I liked it, but I think the manga-ka's nuts to intersperse brutal murders and wedding planning hijinks. And what's with every guy in manga being a perverted moron. (20 bucks says the heroine and her fiance just missing out on having sex (which he wants, and she doesn't) becomes a running gag.) Anyhoo, a traffic cop's is going to get married to her fiance, so she resigns, but due to Japan's crappy economy, her fiance isn't making as much money as they'd like, so she goes to ask for her job back, but it's been filled. Luckily, an opening just came up in the unsolved crimes division, so she's transfered there. Unfortunatly, it turns out that only she, and one other man will be working there. The other guy is a shut in, so he needs her to be his eyes and ears (hence the title), so she goes around investigating a series of crimes commited by a clown. (John Wayne Gacy, does your evil know no bounds!? Not even death could stop you!) It's not quite as simple as just figuring out who the clown is, and I think the manga-ka's trying to hard to make the crime complex, but hey, that's not so bad (I think). And as opposed to Kindaichi, Tokyopop doesn't include all the chapters from a specific case in one volume, which seems to indicate that this isn't a true whodunnit, but more then that. Which is okay. I just wonder if the non-mystery stuff is going to get annoying after awhile. We'll see. All in all, I give it a thumbs up (but since I don't buy manga I probably won't like (no yaoi here, chums) you have to take my thumbs up with a grain of salt.)