It was serialized in Shogakukan's Monthly Ikki from December 2004 to April 2006, with its chapters collected in two wide-ban volumes.

Tsukidate no Satsujin is written by Yukito Ayatsuji and illustrated by Noriko Sasaki.

[a] Shogakukan collected its chapters in two wide-ban volumes, released on August 10, 2005,[6] and July 28, 2006.

[7] Shogakukan re-published it in two tankōbon volumes released on January 30, 2009.

[10][11] Tsukidate no Satsujin was one of the Jury Recommended Works at the 10th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2006.