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Top 20 Detective manga you should read right now. [2025 List]
- 20. Case Closed
- 19. Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
- 18. Hokuhokusei ni Kumo to Ike
- 17. Ctrl + Z
- 16. Kemono Jihen
- 15. Dangsinui Sarineul Wihayeo
- 14. The Cop Is Too Strong
- 13. Fuuto Tantei
- 12. Lord of Goblins
- 11. Lord of the Mysteries
- 10. The Distortion Detective
- 9. Pluto
- 8. Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri
- 7. Gwicholli
- 6. Tama Kick
- 5. If You Touch My Little Brother, You’re All Dead
- 4. Q.E.D.: Shoumei Shuuryou
- 3. Yuukoku no Moriarty
- 2. Memorial
- 1. Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
20. 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
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. Hokuhokusei ni Kumo to Ike
17-year-old Kei Miyama is a freelance detective working in Iceland. With the disappearance of his brother, aunt, and uncle, he is plunged into a mystery that he must solve at all costs.
Follow the Clouds to the North-Northwest is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 北北西に曇と往け, Go north-northwest with Clouds, Overcast and Traveling in the North-Northwest
17. Ctrl + Z
What if you had the power to erase people's memories? Would you use it to help those in need? Or would you use it to become the most powerful person in the world? For Kyle, this newfound power was going to change his life... for better or for worse.
Source: Webtoon
Ctrl + Z has finished publishing and it has 76 Chapters. It is also Known as: Ctrl + Z
16. 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
15. 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
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. Fuuto Tantei
In the ecologically-minded city of Fuuto, mysterious devices resembling USB flash drives called Gaia Memories are used by criminals and other interested parties to become monsters called Dopants, committing crimes with the police force powerless to stop them. To make matters worse, the Gaia Memories carry a dangerous toxin that cause their users to go insane to the point where they could die from the life-threatening devices. After the death of his boss, the self-proclaimed hard-boiled detective Shoutarou Hidari works with the mysterious Philip to investigate crimes which involve Dopants. Using their own Gaia Memories, Shoutarou and Philip use the Double Driver belts to transform and combine into Kamen Rider Double to fight the Dopant menace and keep Fuuto safe.
Note: Fuuto Tantei is a manga adaptation and sequel of the 2009 drama TV series Kamen Rider W.
Fuuto Detective is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 風都探偵, Kamen Rider W: Fuuto Tantei, Kamen Rider: Fuuto Tantei
12. 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
11. 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
10. The Distortion Detective
Set during the events of Library of Ruina, the novel follows the titular Distortion Detective, Moses, a Fixer with the ability to see the Distortion Phenomenon. With her assistant, Ezra, the Distortion Detective takes on cases involving Distortions, monsters which have been appearing all over The City following the collapse of L Corp. after the events of Lobotomy Corporation.
The Distortion Detective has finished publishing and it has 42 Chapters. It is also Known as: The Distortion Detective
9. 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
8. 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 has finished publishing and it has 170 Chapters. It is also Known as: 鴨乃橋ロンの禁断推理, Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri
7. 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
6. Tama Kick
The "erotic comedy" manga centers on Ayane Kurozumi, a beautiful detective who has legs that can take anything down. She takes various jobs so long as she gets proper monetary compensation.
Kick to the Ball has finished publishing and it has 29 Chapters. It is also Known as: 玉キック, Kick to the Ball
5. 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
4. Q.E.D.: Shoumei Shuuryou
Q.E.D. ~Shomei Shuryo~ (normally referred to simply as Q.E.D.) is a mystery manga by Motohiro Katou in the same style as Detective Conan and Kindaichi Case Files. Unlike those two, however, the main character Sou Touma does not stumble onto murders with absurd regularity. Instead, he encounters a variety of crimes ranging from murder to fraud. Also unlike his contemporaries (who either work alone or whose partners provide minimal assistance), he often works in tandem with his friend and potential love interest Kana, with him supplying the brain while she acts as brawn.
Q.E.D.: Shoumei Shuuryou has finished publishing and it has 99 Chapters. It is also Known as: Q.E.D. 証明終了, Quod Erat Demonstrandum, Wonder Little Detective, QED: Shomei Shuryo
3. 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
2. Memorial
In a future where the world has been devastated by a deadly gas called Izpo, Min-Hui and his friends find themselves embroiled in a thick conspiracy — where the stakes are high, and bets are made with one’s life. Only the Memorial Chips guard humanity against the lethal gas that permeates the atmosphere. But are these electronic securities truly built to guard us — or watch us? Follow Min-Hui as he examines what reality is, and comes face-to-face with the truth that will change him forever.
Memorial has finished publishing and it has 70 Chapters. It is also Known as: Memorial
1. 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
