Dansai Bunri no Crime Edge

The Severing Crime Edge
Cover of the first manga volume (Kindle edition)
断裁分離のクライムエッジ (Dansai Bunri no Kuraimu Ejji)
Genre	Action, Fantasy, Romance
Manga
Written by	Tatsuhiko Hikagi
Published by	Media Factory
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Monthly Comic Alive
Original run	March 27, 2009 – September 2015
Volumes	10
Anime television series
Directed by	Yūji Yamaguchi
Written by	Tatsuhiko Urahata
Music by	Yasuharu Takanashi
Studio	Studio Gokumi
Licensed by	NA Sentai Filmworks
Original network	Tokyo MX, Sun TV, KBS, TV Aichi, AT-X
Original run	April 4, 2013 – June 27, 2013
Episodes	13 (List of episodes)

The Severing Crime Edge (Japanese: 断裁分離のクライムエッジ, Hepburn: Dansai Bunri no Kuraimu Ejji^?) is a Japanese manga series, written and illustrated by Tatsuhiko Hikagi. KADOKAWA began releasing the digital English volumes on BookWalker on December 10, 2014. An anime television series adaptation by Studio Gokumi premiered on Tokyo MX and other networks on April 4, 2013.

Kiri Haimura is a seemingly ordinary boy with one slight problem: he is obsessed with cutting other people's hair. One day, he meets Iwai Mushanokōji, the "Hair Queen" (髪の女王, Kami no Joō^?) who cannot cut her hair because of an inherited curse. Kiri finds out that his scissors, "The Severing Crime Edge" is the only thing that can cut them. The scissors were a killing tool that belonged to his ancestor, Norma Grayland, the most infamous serial killer in history. But little did Kiri know that his meeting with Iwai sparked the start of an old murder game to kill the "Hair Queen" using the cursed killing tools, the "Killing Goods" (殺害遺品, Kiringu Guzzu^?). It is said whoever assassinates the Hair Queen will have a wish granted. Can Kiri protect Iwai from the Killing Goods Owners, known as 'Authors', associates of the illegitimate Gossip organization? Let the game begin!