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Top 19 Detective manga you should read right now. [2026 List]
- 19. Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
- 18. Lord of the Mysteries
- 17. Pluto
- 16. Gwicholli
- 15. Case Closed
- 14. Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
- 13. Dangsinui Sarineul Wihayeo
- 12. If You Touch My Little Brother, You’re All Dead
- 11. Isshou Watashi no Joshu de Ite!
- 10. Lord of Goblins
- 9. Kemono Jihen
- 8. Yuukoku no Moriarty
- 7. Last Karte: Houjuuigakusha Touma Kenshou no Kioku
- 6. Sahyeongsonyeon
- 5. Breaking Through the Clouds
- 4. Furitsumore Kodoku na Shi yo
- 3. Lord of the Mysteries
- 2. Tantei Xeno to Nanatsu no Satsujin Misshitsu
- 1. Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo
19. Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
In the imperial court, a young woman is put into servitude, Maomao. The tale is just beginning for the woman doctor/pharmacist from the red-light district, as rumors circulate about the emperor's children's lives being short-lived. Her curious nature and thirst for knowledge pushes her to action. To satisfy her curiosity, this young doctor/pharmacist will investigate the origin! What is shifting in the imperial court..!?
The Apothecary Diaries is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 薬屋のひとりごと, The Pharmacist's Monologue, The Pharmacist's Soliloquies, Drugstore Soliloquy
18. Lord of the Mysteries
With the rising tide of steam power and machinery, who can come close to being a Beyonder? Shrouded in the fog of history and darkness, who or what is the lurking evil that murmurs into our ears?
Waking up to be faced with a string of mysteries, Zhou Mingrui finds himself reincarnated as Klein Moretti in an alternate Victorian era world where he sees a world filled with machinery, cannons, dreadnoughts, airships, difference machines, as well as Potions, Divination, Hexes, Tarot Cards, Sealed Artifacts…
The Light continues to shine but mystery has never gone far. Follow Klein as he finds himself entangled with the Churches of the world—both orthodox and unorthodox—while he slowly develops newfound powers thanks to the Beyonder potions.
Like the corresponding tarot card, The Fool, which is numbered 0—a number of unlimited potential—this is the legend of “The Fool”.
Lord of the Mysteries has finished publishing and it has 1430 Chapters. It is also Known as: LotM, 诡秘之主
17. 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
16. Gwicholli
Mumyeong Heo’s grandmother passed away years ago. But when he visits her home to spend some time in the quiet countryside, he notices that someone kept it clean all this time. His new neighbors aren’t exactly thrilled by his visit. In fact, most of them don’t want him around. But that’s when his nasty neighbors go missing one by one… for better or worse.
The Gwichon Village Mystery is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: หมู่บ้านเร้นลับ
15. 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
14. Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
In the East is a land ruled by an emperor, whose consorts and serving women live in a sprawling complex known as the hougong, the rear palace. Maomao, an unassuming girl raised in an unassuming town by her apothecary father, never imagined the rear palace would have anything to do with her—until she was kidnapped and sold into service there.Though she looks ordinary, Maomao has a quick wit, a sharp mind, and an extensive knowledge of medicine. That's her secret, until she encounters a resident of the palace at least as perceptive as she is: the head eunuch, Jinshi. He sees through Maomao's façade and makes her a lady-in-waiting to none other than the Emperor's favorite consort... so she can taste the lady's food for poison!
The Apothecary Diaries is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 薬屋のひとりごと, The Pharmacist's Monologue
13. Dangsinui Sarineul Wihayeo
Elementary school teacher Gijeong Go has lost almost everything: her parents when she was a child, her freedom when she had to support her shut-in younger brother, and now her very dignity as the class bully among her students and his mother threaten to turn her life into a living hell. Upon meeting the mild-mannered yet inscrutable lawyer Inseop Oh, Gijeong begins to find her life changing, though little does she know that wherever Inseop goes, death follows…
For Your Murder is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Dangsinui Sarineul Wihayeo
12. If You Touch My Little Brother, You’re All Dead
I became sixteen year old Rosalette. She fell out of bed and when she opened her eyes, she had possessed a character in “Asterion of a Blue Starry Night” a cliche BL novel with passion, fantasy, drama, and angst. Plus, she was Rosalette, the older sister of Asteron. Asteron was the protagonist and the one who committed suicide at the end of the novel. She left herself to go through the flow of events in the story. At the end of that, she went back in time to become sixteen year old Rosalette again. She thought that standing by was what she did wrong, so she raised her younger sibling finely, but she died from an outside force and returned as Rosalette once more. She changed her direction. She indulged in training herself instead of her brother. That didn’t seem to work either. She had learned magic but still returned, and she had lived all the way till her graduation, but still returned. Rosalette Roxburgh who is always returning to her sixteen year old self, is still looking for a way to die indefinitely.
If You Touch My Little Brother, You’re All Dead has finished publishing and it has 74 Chapters. It is also Known as: You're All Dead if You Mess With My Brother, I’ll Kill You All if You Mess With My Brother, If You Mess With My Brother, I Will Kill You, If You Touch My Brother, You're All Dead, If You Dare Lay A Hand On My Little Brother, You’re All Going To Die
11. Isshou Watashi no Joshu de Ite!
"The relationship between a detective and their assistant is not unlike romance!"
Due to his natural tendency to assist others (a "helper type" personality that makes him constantly want to lend a hand), Mitomo Tasuku had always lived in the shadows. To break out of this, he made it his life's mission to "become number one." However, at the high school he transfers to, he encounters three detective girls, who happen to be his rivals from elementary school with whom he formed a detective club together. Thus begins Tasuku's fierce battle for the top detective spot! However... these girls seem to harbor passionate feelings of a different kind...!?
Be My Assistant for Life! has finished publishing and it has 40 Chapters. It is also Known as: 一生わたしの助手でいて!, Isshou Watashi no Joshu de Ite!
10. Lord of Goblins
Corruption. Greed. War. Lev is no stranger to the evils of the world, as he has spent his entire life fighting the predatory system that ensnared the world's population and turned them into puppets for the leaders of humanity. But when he is assassinated, he finds himself in a new world — with different yet familiar evils. It's a similar road he must traverse, but this time he can do so with a lifetime of experience behind him.
Source - Webtoon
Lord of Goblins is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Lord of Goblins
9. Kemono Jihen
Kemono Jihen is about a boy known as Dorota-bou who is avoided by the people who surround him, and Inugami, a detective who specializes in the occult. The story begins with Inugami arriving at the boy's town to investigate a case where many cattle are dying and their bodies rot in just one night.
Kemono Jihen is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 怪物事変, Demon Incident, Demon Incidents, Kemono Incidents, Kaibutsu Jihen
8. Yuukoku no Moriarty
In the late 19th century, Great Britain rules over a quarter of the world. Nobles sit in their fancy homes in comfort and luxury, while the working class slaves away at their jobs. When young Albert James Moriarty’s upper-class family adopts two lower-class orphans, the cruelty the boys experience at his family’s hands cements Albert’s hatred of the nobility he was born into. He asks the older of the two boys—who has a genius mind and a killer instinct—to help him rid the world of evil, starting with Albert’s own family!
Moriarty the Patriot is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 憂国のモリアーティ, Moriarty's Patriotism
7. Last Karte: Houjuuigakusha Touma Kenshou no Kioku
Kenshou Touma is a ordinary high schooler with worries and dreams about his future, just like everyone else. One day, he comes across a large number of crows in the park that have died an unnatural death. And while involved in that incident, a certain superpower manifests in him...
Last Karte: Houjuuigakusha Touma Kenshou no Kioku has finished publishing and it has 95 Chapters. It is also Known as: ラストカルテ ―法獣医学者 当麻健匠の記憶―, Last Karte: Houjuuigakusha Touma Kenshou no Kioku
6. Sahyeongsonyeon
Park Tae-Jun Comics Company, Kim Soong-Nyung / Gwangsan
Shin Kim, the rare serial killer who shook the Republic of Korea!
Ji-hoo, who lost his family to Kim Shin, meets another victim, Du-seok, and is trained as a human weapon. And he goes to prison on his own to kill the killer with his bare fists…
‘There has been no execution in our country since 1997. Shouldn’t someone be doing it?’
Death Row Boy has finished publishing and it has 74 Chapters. It is also Known as: Смертник, เด็กหนุ่มผู้ลงทัณฑ์, 死刑少年
5. Breaking Through the Clouds
Three years ago, the operation leader Jiang Ting made an error in judgment, a chain explosion occurred at the scene, and there were heavy casualties in the unit. Three years later, he, supposed to have died in duty, returned to the world, doing everything he could to bring forth the bloody, bizarre truth. Heroic souls resting in death, the ones behind it all closely approaching, sentiments built fighting side by side in blood and fire…
"I used all of my luck in this life, to exchange for you. Thank you for bringing me back to this world, Yan Xie."
Breaking Through the Clouds has finished publishing and it has 102 Chapters. It is also Known as: BTTC, Break the clouds
4. Furitsumore Kodoku na Shi yo
"Elite" detective Jin Saeki stumbles upon a gruesome crime scene involving the death and cannibalization of children and is left with more questions than answers. Juuzou Haikawa, the number one suspect for this crime, who was put on most wanted list nationwide. Kanon Hazumi, a mysterious woman claiming to be the adopted daughter of Juuzou Haikawa, an "angel of death." What was the reason for this crime? Who is Juuzou Haikawa? What is his connection to Kanon Hazumi? What is the mysterious past of Jin Saeki? This is the tale of a suffocatingly lonely death.
A Suffocatingly Lonely Death is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 降り積もれ孤独な死よ, Furitsumore Kodoku na Shiyo, Furi Tsumore Kodoku na Shi yo, 如积雪般的永寂
3. Lord of the Mysteries
Waking up to be faced with a string of mysteries, Zhou Mingrui finds himself reincarnated as Klein Moretti in an alternate Victorian era world where he sees a world filled with machinery, cannons, dreadnoughts, airships, difference machines, as well as Potions, Divination, Hexes, Tarot Cards, Sealed Artifacts… The Light continues to shine but mystery has never gone far. Follow Klein as he finds himself entangled with the Churches of the world—both orthodox and unorthodox—while he slowly develops newfound powers thanks to the Beyonder potions.
Lord of the Mysteries has finished publishing and it has 65 Chapters. It is also Known as: Lord of the Mysteries
2. Tantei Xeno to Nanatsu no Satsujin Misshitsu
The story follows Detective Xeno, who after being found collapsed at the side of a road covered in blood and was taken to a hospital the first thing he said upon awakening was solving a murder that happened in the hospital!
Xeno himself has no memory of who he is or where he came from, but after that huge incident and after leaving the hospital, he opened up a detective agency and in just a year he solved some high-profile cases.
Detective Xeno and the Seven Locked Murder Rooms has finished publishing and it has 79 Chapters. It is also Known as: 探偵ゼノと7つの殺人密室, Tantei Xeno to 7-tsu no Satsujin Misshitsu
1. Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo
Kindaichi (frequently with best-bud, Miyuki) travels to various places where a murder has taken place, typically involving ghosts, curses, myths and folklore of significant events from the distant past, and solves the mystery using ingenious deductions of curious clues and his cool magic.
The Kindaichi Case Files: File Series has finished publishing and it has 219 Chapters. It is also Known as: 金田一少年の事件簿, Kindaichi Shonen no Jikenbo
