What is this genre all about? The police (civil servants) are the good guys in the battle against crime. Though they try hard, they are usually outclassed by super-criminals or criminal organizations in anime, requiring the help of special units or some lone hero.
We present you the list of Cops manga you should read right now.
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Top 19 Cops manga you should read right now. [2026 List]
- 19. Chainsaw Man
- 18. Hoegwi Gyeongcharui Reset Life
- 17. Hakozume: Koban Joshi no Gyakushuu
- 16. Case Closed
- 15. Isshiki-san wa Koi wo shiritai.
- 14. The Cop Is Too Strong
- 13. Sunjeong Villain
- 12. The Ghost in the Shell
- 11. Rooftop Sword Master
- 10. Pluto
- 9. Billy Bat
- 8. Akuma de Fukei!
- 7. Jagaaan
- 6. Purple Hyacinth
- 5. Akumetsu
- 4. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
- 3. Gannibal
- 2. The Ghost in the Shell 1.5
- 1. Change the World
19. Chainsaw Man
The name says it all! Denji's life of poverty is changed forever when he merges with his pet chainsaw dog, Pochita! Now he's living in the big city and an official Devil Hunter. But he's got a lot to learn about his new job and chainsaw powers!
Notes:
- Nominated for the 2020 Manga Taisho Award.
- Winner of the 2021 Kono Manga ga Sugoi Award.
- Winner of the 66th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shounen category.
- Winner of the 2021 and 2022 Harvey Award for Best Manga.
Chainsaw Man has finished publishing and it has 97 Chapters. It is also Known as: チェンソーマン, Chainsawman, Chensoo Man, CSM, Людина-бензопила, Человек-бензопила, رجل المنشار, مرد اره ای, មនុស្សរណា, チェンソーマン, チェンソーマン 第二部, 电锯人, 鏈鋸人, 電鋸人, 체인쏘맨, Chainsaw Man: Public Safety Saga
18. Hoegwi Gyeongcharui Reset Life
Choi Jong-Hyeok, captain of the intellectual crime unit, loses his mother and his own life to a mysterious mastermind for digging too deeply into a case. In his last moments, Jong-Hyeok catches a glimpse of the man who kills him before waking up as his 17-year-old self. To prevent his mother's death, Jong-Hyeok swears to hunt down the one responsible. Luckily, he has knowledge about the future and his experience as an officer. But will these tools be enough to catch the criminal that eluded him once?
The Life of a Returning Officer is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Comeback d'un flic, Police Returner's Reset Life, Regression Reset Life of Police, Regression Resets a Police Life, Reset Life of Regression Police, 回帰警察官のやり直し
17. Hakozume: Koban Joshi no Gyakushuu
The tale of two policewomen and their ever-changing lives - the manga that won the 66th Shogakukan manga award!
Police in a Pod has finished publishing and it has 207 Chapters. It is also Known as: ハコヅメ ～交番女子の逆襲～, Hakozume: Koban Joshi no Gyakushuu
16. Case Closed
Kudo Shinichi is a seventeen year-old high school detective whom people call the "Modern Sherlock Holmes." However, one night after a date with his childhood sweetheart, Ran, Shinichi witnessed an illegal trade and, caught off his guard, was knocked unconscious and fed a drug that was supposed to kill him... but he woke up and found himself shrunken to a seven year-old. In order to track down the men who did this to him, Shinichi hid his identity and lived with Ran, whose father happened to be a hopeless detective, and with that came a series of murders and mysteries that he must solve.
Detective Conan is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Meitantei Conan, 名探偵コナン, Meitantei Conan, Detective Conan Kaito Kid Special Collection
15. Isshiki-san wa Koi wo shiritai.
A maiden who doesn't know love tries her hand at dating as a pseudo-couple!
Inspector Rinna, a hard-working and serious policeman who is respected by everyone in her department, seems to be having trouble with her work lately. The reason for this is because she's been losing focus. It only happens when Meisi, the detective she works with, is around... So, she makes a choice...?
Isshiki-san Wants to Know About Love. is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 一式さんは恋を知りたい。, Fullmetal Rinna wants to XX, Koutetsu no Rinna wa XX Saretai, 鋼鐵的琳娜想被xx, 一式小姐想要知曉戀愛。, Fullmetal Rinna wants to XX, Isshiki wants to know love
14. The Cop Is Too Strong
Specialized in excessive suppression, police officer Shin Hae-soo gains the ability to go back 60 minutes in time. On the day his father passed away, he instinctively knew. This was a murder disguised as a suicide. Determined to catch his father's killer, Hae-soo becomes a detective. Then, one day, following a mysterious accident, he suddenly gains a supernatural ability! As he solves criminal cases and tracks down the organization, a massive shadow begins to emerge bit by bit!
The Cop Is Too Strong is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: The Police Are Too Strong, The Overpowered Cop
13. Sunjeong Villain
Dumped after confessing to her first crush of three years, Ro-Sa Park falls for her second when the nation’s favorite Superpowered Police Officer, Do-Ryeong Han, swoops in to save her as she’s plummeting from a toppling building. A few years later, a mysterious villain called Blackdog appears, but Do-Ryeong notices something is not quite right. Will the world’s worst villain ever win the heart of the strongest hero in the country?
Villain with a Crush has finished publishing and it has 124 Chapters. It is also Known as: Pure Love Villain, Pure Villain, Sunjeongbilleon, 純情反派, 纯情反派
12. The Ghost in the Shell
In the near future, technology has firmly taken root into society at large. Cybernetic implants are nothing uncommon and robots roam as plentiful as humans, all connected through their ''ghosts'' to the electronic datastreams of the net. Major Motoko Kusanagi and the Public Security Section 9 find themselves in a constant battle with the newly created wave of technological terrorists and cyber-hackers. But things take a turn once Motoko gets involved in a certain case involving an extremely dangerous ''ghost'' hacker nicknamed the Puppeteer, as she dives deeper and deeper into the limitless reality of the net, to reach her own startling conclusions.
The Ghost in the Shell has finished publishing and it has 11 Chapters. It is also Known as: Koukaku Kidoutai: The Ghost in the Shell, 攻殻機動隊 THE GHOST IN THE SHELL, The Ghost in the Shell
11. Rooftop Sword Master
After being beat up and put into a coma by eight of his classmates at Nun'Gwang Middle school, Se'young woke up after nine long months and found out that his father committed suicide by self-immolation in an attempt to get justice for what happened to him.As a result, the investigation re-opened and that attackers who tried to sweep it under the rug received a proper sentence for their crimes. But Se'young was unable to assuage the anger and fear he felt for the unjust world. Se'young thoroughly hid himself from this sort of world.The sun would rise and set, the seasons changed, and not once did he step outside of his home. But one day, a sudden and strange sound enticed him to open the door…Embedded in the center of the rooftop was a gigantic blade emblazoned with the words “War Sword” and with it, came the whispers of a God.
Rooftop Sword Master has finished publishing and it has 125 Chapters. It is also Known as: El maestro de espadachin en la azotea, شمشیرزن پشتبام نشین
10. Pluto
In an ideal world where man and robots coexist, someone or something has destroyed the powerful Swiss robot Mont Blanc. Elsewhere a key figure in a robot rights group is murdered. The two incidents appear to be unrelated...except for one very conspicuous clue - the bodies of both victims have been fashioned into some sort of bizarre collage complete with makeshift horns placed by the victims' heads. Interpol assigns robot detective Gesicht to this most strange and complex case - and he eventually discovers that he too, as one of the seven great robots of the world, is one of the targets.
Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka has finished publishing and it has 65 Chapters. It is also Known as: PLUTO, Pluto
9. Billy Bat
The story is set in 1949 and follows Japanese-American comic book artist Kevin Yamagata as he draws the popular detective series "Billy Bat" for "Marble Comics." When he learns he may have unconsciously copied the character from an image he saw while serving in occupied Japan, he returns to Japan to get permission to use Billy Bat from its original creator. Upon arriving there, however, he becomes embroiled in a web of murder, cover-ups, and prophecy that all leads back to Billy Bat.
It is soon evident, however, that the truth of Billy Bat's nature is far larger than Kevin could ever guess, spanning millennia and across the world.
Billy Bat has finished publishing and it has 165 Chapters. It is also Known as: BILLY BAT, Billy Bat
8. Akuma de Fukei!
In her desire to find the perfect evil man to be her slave, the devil Eclair travelled all the way from the netherworld to a local country town's police station. And she set her sights on the evil looking cop, Kuwahara Daichi.
Eclair wants to do everything to tame Daichi, and Daichi wants to drive her back to hell.
What a romantic battle... or that's what it looks like. Actually Eclair is completely useless and Daichi can't let her be alone.
Akuma de Fukei! has finished publishing and it has 35 Chapters. It is also Known as: アクマでふけい！, Akuma de Fukei!
7. Jagaaan
Shintarou Jagasaki, who is a neighborhood police officer, lives with his girlfriend while working a job that is killing him slowly with annoyance. It looks like he will end up marrying soon and live a boring life with a nuclear family—a grim future for a guy with dreams! One such day, a mysterious monster appeared on the train and he suddenly can shoot with his right hand like Master Buppanatsu, the eggplant mascot of his city!
Jagaaan has finished publishing and it has 163 Chapters. It is also Known as: ジャガーン, Jagaaan
6. Purple Hyacinth
Her ability to detect lies has made her an outstanding officer of the law – despite being haunted by her inability to save the ones she loved from a gruesome fate many years ago. Now, she uses her powerful gift to defend the defenseless at any cost – even if it means teaming up with a deadly assassin to fight evil in a world gone mad.
Purple Hyacinth is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Purple Hyacinth
5. Akumetsu
Nagasawa Shiina was just your average 3rd year high schooler when her father's company went bankrupt. To ease the strain on her family, she secretly begins prostituting herself. At her first job, a mysterious masked man crashes the party... and it's someone she knows...
Akumetsu is the story of Hazama Shou, who defends his own view of justice in a vigilante manner while wearing a mask and calling himself Akumetsu.
Akumetsu has finished publishing and it has 162 Chapters. It is also Known as: アクメツ, Akumetsu
4. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
In the not so distant future, mankind has advanced to a state where complete body transplants from flesh to machine is possible. This allows for great increases in both physical and cybernetic prowess and blurring the lines between the two worlds. However, criminals can also make full use of such technology, leading to new and sometimes, very dangerous crimes. In response to such innovative new methods, the Japanese Government has established Section 9, an independently operating police unit which deals with such highly sensitive crimes.
Led by Daisuke Aramaki and Motoko Kusanagi, Section 9 deals with such crimes over the entire social spectrum, usually with success. However, when faced with a new A level hacker nicknamed “The Laughing Man”, the team is thrown into a dangerous cat and mouse game, following the hacker’s trail as it leaves its mark on Japan.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex has finished publishing and it has 42 Chapters. It is also Known as: Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex, 攻殻機動隊STAND ALONE COMPLEX, White Maze, The Lost Memory, Revenge of the Cold Machines
3. Gannibal
When a police officer is posted to a remote village in the countryside, little does he realize he's encroaching on a community of a cannibals...
Gannibal has finished publishing and it has 120 Chapters. It is also Known as: ガンニバル, Gannibaru
2. The Ghost in the Shell 1.5
Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor presents the "lost" Ghost in the Shell stories, created by Shirow Masamune after completing work on the original Ghost in the Shell manga and prior to his tour-de-force, Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface, but never collected until now. Focusing on Section 9 agents in their daily battle against technocrime, Human-Error Processor has all the mind-twisting cybermadness you've come to expect from Ghost in the Shell but set in a more police-procedural context with action and suspense galore.
The Ghost in the Shell 1.5 has finished publishing and it has 7 Chapters. It is also Known as: Koukaku Kidoutai 1.5: Human-Error Processer, 攻殻機動隊1.5 HUMAN-ERROR PROCESSER, Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor
1. Change the World
Saitou Yuuichi, a young man without prospects, decides to kill himself at the turn of the year. However, a fateful encounter with a stranger named Mitsumune Sakutarou, who is his polar opposite, changes Yuuichi's future in a way he could never have imagined.
Change the World - Bloodthirsty killer from today has finished publishing and it has 25 Chapters. It is also Known as: チェンジザワールド, Change the World - Murderer from Today , Change the World: Kyou kara Satsujinki , チェンジ・ザ・ワールド , チェンジ・ザ・ワールド 今日から、殺人鬼 , チェンジザワールド―今日から殺人鬼―
