Dark Violets

is a Japanese light novel series written by en Mikami, with illustrations by Chisato Naruse (Volume 1) GASHIN (Volume 2 - 7). The series began publication on June 10, 2002 by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko publishing imprint.

Synopsis
Akira Kamino, a high school student with "purple eyes" who can see ghosts, gets on a mysterious bus with only ghosts one morning. Akira, who escaped with the girl Mikuriya who was on board, finds out that the faces of the victims of a series of mysterious murders in Kamioka Town match the ghosts of the bus. After learning that a similar incident had occurred shortly after the war, and that Akira's grandfather and Hiiragi's grandmother had resolved the incident, Akira and his colleagues began to search for the identity of the mysterious bus. A horror action that depicts the activities of Akira, a boy with "purple eyes" who can see ghosts, and Hiiragi, a girl who has "purple hands" who can touch ghosts.