A theme within the Mystery genre, these stories feature either a detective or amateur investigator working to solve a crime or puzzling event. To classify as Detective, the character must either by employed as an investigator (e.g. police officer, private detective) or be sought out by enforcement/clients because of their case-solving reputation (e.g. Sherlock). If the character only seeks out mysteries as a hobby or becomes embroiled in them randomly, then the Detective theme does not apply. Anti-heroes being pursued by enforcement is not Detective.
Detective Akutsu and a high school boy named Shino have recently taken notice of strange occurrences in Shibuya regarding disappearances of high school teenage girls. Shino believes that this may be related to a recent rumor regarding a demon girl named Karuta. The main question is though, is she an ally... or an enemy? (Source: MU)
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Kei Matsuda is a private investigator who specializes in quirky cases centered on his local neighborhood around the shopping arcade. He's recently taken on a new roommate (and lover) named Kamiko who is unemployed, ruthlessly horny, and was actually a classmate from his past. While the two work together to solve cases, they carry on in what starts as a strictly physical relationship... until Matsuda finds that this temporary situation he has entered with Kamiko might be turning into something more. (Source: Tokyopop)
Applying to join the Administrative Inspection Office, Sakura Natsume, the protagonist, embarks upon six months of training. As part of her training programme, Sakura is tasked with writing reports about unusual crimes. During this process, she interviews Sumio Kodai, a former detective who is now being held in police custody after committing a crime of conscience. "If you don't connect with the darkness inside yourself you can't understand criminals, and you can't become an investigator." Sakura is left shaken by Sumio's words. And then, one day, news about a serial murder case is sprung upon her... (Source: ASCII Corporation, translated)
Sasaki Rena is a beautiful woman with excellent memory and intelligence. She becomes a private detective and risks her life to chase down evil private detectives, because her younger sister was murdered by a stalker. The person that provided information to the stalker on her sister's location was a private detective. (Source: AsianWiki)
The master of the Izakaya "Arakan" is also a famous detective. In accordance with the veteran police detective Numata's request, he joins the investigations. A grueling detective story blended lightly with cuisine and seasoned with some human drama. (Source: Media Do International/Nihonbungeisha)
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Sugaru, a remote village that doesn’t even appear on any maps. In this village, there were daughters of a family that inherited the power of a god for more than a thousand years. They were called "Sugaru-sama" and ruled the village for generations. In 1985, a girl who was a candidate to be Sugaru-sama's successor is found dead with her head cut off. Detective Misasagi Mikage, a beautiful girl with a jade left eye wearing a suikan, takes on the case. Mikage, whose mother is a legendary detective, discovers facts that the police have overlooked one after another and seems to be getting to the bottom of the matter. However, the case produces a second and a third victim... (Source: Bungeishunju, translated)
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Manga adaptation of the twenty-fifth Meitantei Conan movie.
Manga adaptation of the twenty-third Meitantei Conan movie.
Included one-shot: Love Laboratory
Manga adaptation of the fifteenth Meitantei Conan movie.
Manga adaptation of the nineteenth Meitantei Conan movie.
While attending a meeting as a Chief Inspector of the Public Security Bureau, Akane Tsunemori received a report that an incident had occurred on a foreign vessel, and this was the beginning of a big and unexpected case. (Source: IMDb)
Satowa Akizuki has the strange ability to enter a person's mind, simply by touching them, and his friend Mizune sees his ability as an opportunity to make some cash! Together they've formed a unique detective agency. Their first customer, who is unlikely to fulfill Mizune's dreams of money, is a little girl looking for her missing father. (Source: MU)
In Tokyo, a murderer leaves his signature, an "X" on the dead body. When found, the mark appears eerily similar to that of the one seen on the body of the dead wife of Detective Genji Andou. Banned from the investigation, he secretly reaches out to Jin Jinbo, an associate professor at the medical school's genome analysis lab. Who better than a DNA expert to identify this potential serial killer? (Source: MyDramaList)
Ryouji is just supposed to be that private detective everyone hires to solve their trivial personal cases. But why does he have this outstanding cooking skill that mesmerizes every cook he met in the investigation? What is his connection with the famous head from Togawa restaurant? Together with Aoi, the outgoing woman who's also a foodie, Ryouji spread his cooking skill that will bring more taste to Japan's urban culinary! (Source: Torico)
Centered around two rookie inspectors of the Ministry of Welfare's Public Safety Bureau (MWPSB); Arata Shindou and Kei Mikhail Ignatov. These two inspectors are confronted with an ever changing society under the jurisdiction of the all knowing and impartial system of collective consciousness known as Sibyl and a contradiction that exists solely to evince the imperfections of the Sibyl system. Contending with an increasing anti immigrant sentiment, political intrigue, as well as peculiar individuals who exist solely to test the Sibyl system, these two inspectors are confronted with two choices, which are to either follow or overturn the system. (Source: ANN)
Tokyo, 2120. In a society overseen by the Sibyl System, Inspectors Arata Shindou and Kei Mikhail Ignatov of the Criminal Investigation Department's Unit One clash over truth and justice. Kouichi Azusawa, the mastermind behind a string of crimes, sets his sights on the CID itself and launches an assault on the NONA Tower. Division 01 (a.k.a. Unit One) is in peril like never before—a case that will try Shindou and Ignatov's loyalties. (Source: Psycho-Pass Wiki)
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Inspector Amane Ooguro has just been reassigned to Investigation Division 6, which is considered a graveyard for police detectives transferred there. Disappointed to discover that her only partner is a slacker by the name of Ebisu Kei, she soon finds out that he has the ability to read the slightest change in facial expressions, or "Tells" as he calls it... (Source: MU)
Two buddies running a detective agency, all the mess they keep falling into and the overdue back rent: will our guys manage to make it through this potentially explosive mix? (Source: MU) Included one-shots: Volume 3: Warae Tatsuo, Tabi Ichiza Yami Nezumi, Hybrid X Gokutou no Hakobune