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Top 18 Detective manga you should read right now. [2026 List]
- 18. Dangsinui Sarineul Wihayeo
- 17. Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
- 16. Case Closed
- 15. Lord of Goblins
- 14. Pluto
- 13. Kemono Jihen
- 12. Gwicholli
- 11. If You Touch My Little Brother, You’re All Dead
- 10. Isshou Watashi no Joshu de Ite!
- 9. Fuuto Tantei
- 8. Yuukoku no Moriarty
- 7. The Cop Is Too Strong
- 6. Lord of the Mysteries
- 5. Sal inmaui inteovyu
- 4. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Onikakushi-hen
- 3. Memorial
- 2. Danganronpa Gaiden: Killer Killer
- 1. Hokuhokusei ni Kumo to Ike
18. 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
17. 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
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. 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
14. 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
13. 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
12. 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
11. 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
10. 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!
9. 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
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. 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
6. 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
5. Sal inmaui inteovyu
Ha-joon lost his parents and lived with his grandmother.
After learning the truth about his parents' deaths, he became a police officer, but the life of a police officer is not the life of a detective he dreamed of.
'I wish legendary detectives would appear in front of me and give me a clue to the case.
Frustrated, he visits his childhood home, a tin house he shared with his parents.....
He finds his father's book there.
As he opens the book, he sees the legendary killers.
What are you doing there?
(Source - Kakao | Google Translated)
The killer's interview is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: The Murderer's Interview
4. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Onikakushi-hen
Life couldn’t be better for Keiichi Maebara. Sure, he’s moved to a sleepy, little town where nothing happens and high school consists of a one-room schoolhouse — but his new friends and fellow students are all cute girls! When he happens upon a story about a grisly local murder, however, his contentment turns to uneasiness as he finds himself drawn into a web of silent intrigue that involves his newfound friends…and threatens his very existence.
The story of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni is divided into a total of eight chapters: four "Question" arcs and four "Answer" arcs. Each chapter keeps the same main characters, but ends in a different way. However, each chapter gives valuable answers, hints, and clues to the previous one, while at the same time bringing forth even more mysteries.
Higurashi WHEN THEY CRY: Abducted by Demons Arc has finished publishing and it has 7 Chapters. It is also Known as: ひぐらしのなく頃に 鬼隠し編, The Moment the Cicadas Cry: Demoning Away Chapter, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Onikakushihen, The Moment the Cicadas Cry Demoning Away Chapter
3. 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
2. Danganronpa Gaiden: Killer Killer
In response to The Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Event in Human History, an organization called Future Foundation was created to combat the chaos still present even after the death of The Mastermind. Misaki Asano is a new recruit, working as a special investigator for the 6th Division's Special Case Bureau—a branch dedicated to only the most bizarre and challenging murder cases. Alongside her partner, Takumi Hijirihara, they aim to combat despair one case at a time.
Though, perhaps their most challenging case is that of the mysterious Killer Killer, a bizarre serial killer who chooses to target other murderers.
Danganronpa Gaiden: Killer Killer has finished publishing and it has 14 Chapters. It is also Known as: ダンガンロンパ害伝 キラーキラー, Danganronpa Gaiden: Killer Killer
1. 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
