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Top 20 Detective manga you should read right now. [2024 List]
- 20. Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
- 19. Lord of the Mysteries
- 18. Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri
- 17. If You Touch My Little Brother, You’re All Dead
- 16. Case Closed
- 15. Pluto
- 14. Pen to Wappa to Jijitsu-kon
- 13. Lord of Goblins
- 12. Koukyuu no Musubibito
- 11. Kemono Jihen
- 10. Kusuriya no Hitorigoto: Maomao no Koukyuu Nazotoki Techou
- 9. Isshou Watashi no Joshu de Ite!
- 8. Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
- 7. Undead Girl Murder Farce
- 6. Yuukoku no Moriarty
- 5. Last Karte: Houjuuigakusha Touma Kenshou no Kioku
- 4. Naega Jugyeotda
- 3. Parannara
- 2. Sugoi Smartphone
- 1. Sicheneun Malhanda
20. 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
19. 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
18. Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri
This unusual duo brings the hidden truth into the light! Ron Kamonohashi, a private investigator with serious issues, and Totomaru Ishiki, a pure-hearted but dim police detective, team up to solve the most baffling mysteries! A thrilling detective story for a new generation from Akira Amano, creator of "Reborn!" and "Ēldlive"!
Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 鴨乃橋ロンの禁断推理, Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri
17. 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.
- MU
If You Touch My Little Brother, You’re All Dead is currently publishing and has 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
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. 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
14. Pen to Wappa to Jijitsu-kon
The dedicated Detective Eiji Kirisame meets a mysterious high school girl who doesn't speak, Tsugumi Kuchinashiko, at a certain crime scene. She reveals the truth behind an ingenious murder by making a series crude drawings in her sketchbook to help Kirisame track down the perpetrator. The resentful killer tries to attacks her, but Kirisame saves her in the nick of time and arrests the culprit. Kirisame is relieved to have solved the case, but then Kuchinashiko suddenly returns and asks to marry him...
A Pen, Cuffs, & A De Fact-o Marriage is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: ペンと手錠と事実婚, Pen to Wappa to Jijitsukon, 笔与手铐与事实婚姻
13. 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
12. Koukyuu no Musubibito
Her favorite novel was set in the imperial harem. Now she gets to solve its mysteries! When Xiao Ling took a job at a bookstore, she had no idea she'd be working with her favorite author. Arriving at the palace she'd only read about in stories, Xiao Ling finds not the seasoned authoress she expected, but...the Crown Prince, Ryuhou?!
Wrapping up the Imperial Harem has finished publishing and it has 11 Chapters. It is also Known as: 後宮の結び人, Koukyuu no Musubibito
11. 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
10. Kusuriya no Hitorigoto: Maomao no Koukyuu Nazotoki Techou
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..!?
Kusuriya no Hitorigoto: Maomao no Koukyuu Nazotoki Techou is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 薬屋のひとりごと 猫猫の後宮謎解き手帳, Kusuriya no Hitorigoto: Maomao no Koukyuu Nazotoki Techou
9. 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! is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 一生わたしの助手でいて!, Isshou Watashi no Joshu de Ite!
8. 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
7. Undead Girl Murder Farce
Vampires, a supernatural detective, and a girl’s head in a birdcage, oh my! The mysterious game is afoot in Victorian England in this atmospheric supernatural story that’s sure to keep you on your toes!
Undead Girl Murder Farce is an adaptation of Aozaki Yuugo's mystery novel of the same title.
Undead Murder Farce is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: アンデッドガール・マーダーファルス, Undead Girl Murder Farce
6. 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
5. 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 is currently publishing and has 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
4. Naega Jugyeotda
Kwon Soon-hyang, the owner of the building who suddenly murdered the tenant. Seven years later, he is killed by someone ahead of his surrender. Shin Yeo-ju, a detective who digs up a huge conspiracy and absurdity behind the death of Soon-hyang Kim, a lawyer who gives a clue to the case linked to the death of his own client. When you don't know who's your friend and who's your foe, who is the opponent behind all the incidents the two of them have to face?
Source: MU
I Killed Him is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Naega Jugyeotda
3. Parannara
One day, violent crimes detective Kang Jungwoo stumbles across a huge room full of cash and finds himself being hunted down by the rich and powerful. But exactly how far does this conspiracy go?
The Blue Land has finished publishing and it has 47 Chapters. It is also Known as: Palannalla
2. Sugoi Smartphone
What would you do if you had a smartphone that let you look up anything? Secret documents, security camera footage, a certain person's text messages, where people dropped money... This smartphone lets you do the impossible! Jump's newest suspense thriller begins!
Super Smartphone has finished publishing and it has 24 Chapters. It is also Known as: すごいスマホ, Sugoi Sumaho, Amazing Smartphone
1. Sicheneun Malhanda
“Live like a mouse for 10 years, at least 10 years. After that, I won’t care what you do with your life.”
Jeanne, a girl praised as a war hero, cuts off his right hand to prevent the emperor's escape during the civil war, and turns herself into a target.
After changing her name to escape from the emperor, she hides in a barren land as part of "Blue Blood", an aristocratic investigative team that deals with crimes.
After 10 years of quietly solving various cases with her new colleagues, the forgotten past begins to invade her life again!
A dubious subordinate gives me a headache, but now an impersonator appears?!
The unpredictable detective story of a war hero who became a Hanyang investigator begins now!
The Corpse Will Tell is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Sicheneun Malhanda
