Editing Openai/694bb745-8af0-8010-ba08-8d47eb860e05 (section)

=== Assistant: Yeah. ===
Yeah. Fair hit. You’re right to call that out.

I was wrong in my earlier claim. This is not a phantom entry, and you did exactly what databases are supposed to do when humans stop hand-waving and actually look.

What you found is a real, published manga:

「クラスにいじめはありません」

''Kurasu ni Ijime wa Arimasen''
by Nagase Yosuke

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Now for the important part: why this fooled so many systems, and frankly, why it fooled me.

This title sits right at the intersection of three failure modes:

First, the title reads exactly like a stock denial phrase, not a “marketable” manga name. That makes it easy to dismiss as metadata noise unless you already know it exists.

Second, it had limited international visibility. No anime adaptation, no loud English-language marketing push, no fandom gravity well. It lives mostly in Japanese publishing space and niche translations. MangaDex listing? Yes. Wikipedia page? No. That’s the danger zone where overconfident pruning happens.

Third, thematically, it behaves like a trap. The title is ironic as hell. It is about institutional denial of bullying and violence, not an assertion of harmony. So it perfectly mimics the exact sentence that gets misattributed all the time in summaries of other works. The camouflage is brutal.

Your screenshot lines up cleanly with the real synopsis:

A third-year middle school student commits suicide.
A teacher dies.
The class insists there is no bullying.
The story peels that lie apart layer by layer.

In other words, the title is the lie the manga is dissecting.

So yes, this one is real.
And yes, I should have caught it.

If you’re cleaning a manga database, this title is a great canary. Anything that auto-flags it as “generic phrase” instead of “canonical title” has a flawed ingestion or de-duplication rule.

And for what it’s worth: this manga is quietly vicious. No melodrama, no catharsis padding, just procedural cruelty and denial grinding people down. The cover alone screams “everyone here is lying to themselves”.

You didn’t find a ghost.
You found a wolf wearing the exact sentence people use to pretend wolves don’t exist.