Remote is a manga that could be classified in the category of mystery. Having interesting characters and cases, in addition to decent art, it will leave you asking for more.

After quitting her job as a meter maid, Kurumi Ayaki was thinking of nothing but her upcoming wedding. Yet after her fiancé revealed that they had run into some financial problems, the wedding was postponed, and she was forced to beg for her job back. Unfortunately for her, the position to which she was previously assigned had been filled, so she was given a new one in the C.I.D.(Criminal Investigation Department), Unsolved Crimes, Division A.

After being told that she would be transferred to a different office, she was issued her equipment; a gun, a cell-phone, and a headset. Soon afterwards, she received a call. On the other end was Kozabura Himuro, her new supervisor. After following a series of directions, she was unknowingly brought to a place known as “The Crypt”, a creepy underground room in the house of Detective Himuro.

From there, Detective Himuro proceeded to explained to Ayaki what exactly her job entailed. Unable to leave the room, after an accident that had left him emotionless, Himuro required someone to work for him out in the field. Thus, Ayaki would go to crime scenes, and report all details back to him. In addition, if she was to at any point disobey his orders, she would be fired on the spot.

Not having room for another person in “The Crypt”, Ayaki was to use the desk at her old office. Yet as soon as she got ack to the traffic department’s headquarters, she received another call from Himuro, ordering her to return to his office.

There, she met an oversized man by the name of Bob Kato, affectionately referred to as “The Bobhemoth”. Himuro then continued on, to brief her on the situation. Two bodies had turned up, each with ceratin qualities that made it appear as though they had a common murderer.
The fist was of a female nurse. Shoved into some garbage and hidden under some bridge, she had a floppy disk in her hand, and the phrase “SEND MORE MONEY” was painted on the wall behind her. In addition, a clown had been reported at the scene of the crime.

Soon, Himuro realized that the phrase was not a phrase at all, but an algebra problem. Then through a series of more or less complex calculations, he discovered the answer, which was also the password giving access to the floppy. On the floppy was information on the second murder. Sadly however, it had already happened.

As a matter of fact, Ayaki had actually been present at the discovery of the second corpse, despite the fact the it had happened while she was still a meter maid. Also, on that body, a floppy disk had been found. The answer to unlocking this one took a while longer to figure out.

While Ayaki was at a hotel with her fiancé, as he was showering with dreams of fulfilling his manly lust, she received a call from work. Having to leave immediately, she was upset to leave her fiancé, but he would just have to cope.

Once again, she followed a series of directions, but this time, she found herself in front of an old abandoned building. Entering with caution, she eventually found herself in a room with mannequins, and a cake box. Suddenly, one of the mannequins began to move, and Ayaki soon realized that it was no mannequin, but the clown. As she was being attacked, she fired at the suspect, but missed. Following the shots, the clown jumped out the window, but was not killed by hitting the ground. Instead, he was killed by a speeding car, in a narrow alleyway?

The identity of the clown was soon discovered. He was the fiancé of the first victim, but something didn’t quite sit. The first murder had occurred while he was out of the country, so someone else had to be behind the murders.

Later on, Ayaki received yet another call from Himuro, this time ordering her to have lunch with Bob(An oversized unofficial helper of Himuro). However, the waiter who happened to serve them was none other than the man who had hit the clown with the car. After a brief interrogation, “The Bobhemoth”, checked the pulse of the waiter, which was moving at the rate of a guilty man.

Later that night, Ayaki was sent to another location. The spot was revealed to be the place of a potential murder, after the password of the third disk(found on the dead clown), was deciphered. Yet as soon as she arrived at the building, another clown fell from one of the upper floors, dying on impact with the road. She herself was able to identify him as the waiter, and what should be in his pocket, but another disk.