Best detective manga
164 manga about detective, ranked by community score. Tags come from AniList voters; the percentage on each title page says how strongly the tag applies.
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4.420th Century Boys
Manga · 1999 · 249 ch
20th Century Boys20 Seiki ShounenManga · 1999 · 249 ch4.4Humanity, having faced extinction at the end of the 20th century, would not have entered the new millennium if it weren't for them. In 1969, during their youth, they created a symbol. In 1997, as the coming disaster slowly starts to…
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4.5Monster
Manga · 1994 · 162 ch
MonsterMONSTERManga · 1994 · 162 ch4.5Everyone faces uncertainty at some point in their lives. Even a brilliant surgeon like Kenzo Tenma is no exception. But there’s no way he could have known that his decision to stop chasing professional success and instead concentrate on…![[Oshi no Ko]](https://s4.anilist.co/file/anilistcdn/media/manga/cover/large/bx117195-r3kf8eF0xkDJ.png)
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3.9[Oshi no Ko]
Manga · 2020 · 171 ch
[Oshi no Ko]Manga · 2020 · 171 ch3.9Gorou is a gynecologist and idol fan who’s in shock after his favorite star, Ai, announces an impromptu hiatus. Little does Gorou realize that he’s about to forge a bond with her that defies all common sense! Lies are an idol’s weapon!…
4.2Death Note
Manga · 2003 · 108 ch
Death NoteDEATH NOTEManga · 2003 · 108 ch4.2Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies…
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4.0Call of the Night
Manga · 2019 · 203 ch
Call of the NightYofukashi no UtaManga · 2019 · 203 ch4.0One sleepless night, Ko slips out to walk the streets. Life after dark is a revelation! When flirtatious Nazuna invites Ko to spend the night at her place in an abandoned building, he’s stoked! But then he awakens to kisses on his neck…
4.3GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka
Manga · 1997 · 208 ch
GTO: Great Teacher OnizukaGTOManga · 1997 · 208 ch4.3Former juvenile delinquent Onizuka finds himself thrust into to role of high school teacher, facing students who behave just as he used to and an administration that doesn't trust him. Using the brash an unorthodox methods he picked up in…
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4.3Pluto
Manga · 2003 · 65 ch
PlutoPLUTOManga · 2003 · 65 ch4.3In 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…
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4.3The Apothecary Diaries
Manga · 2017
The Apothecary DiariesKusuriya no HitorigotoManga · 20174.3Maomao, a young woman trained in the art of herbal medicine, is forced to work as a lowly servant in the inner palace. Though she yearns for life outside its perfumed halls, she isn’t long for a life of drudgery! Using her wits to break a…
4.2Bungo Stray Dogs
Manga · 2012
Bungo Stray DogsBungou Stray DogsManga · 20124.2Having been kicked out of the orphanage, a despairing young man by the name of Atsushi Nakajima rescues a strange man from a suicide attempt--Osamu Dazai. Turns out that Dazai is part of an armed-detective agency staffed by individuals…
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3.9Lookism
Manga · 2014
LookismOemo JisangjuuiManga · 20143.9Daniel is an unattractive loner who wakes up in a different body. Now tall, handsome, and cooler than ever in his new form, Daniel aims to achieve everything he couldn't before. How far will he go to keep his body... and his secrets?…
3.6Jagaaan
Manga · 2017 · 163 ch
JagaaanJagaaaaaanManga · 2017 · 163 ch3.6Shintarou 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…
4.0Black Butler
Manga · 2006
Black ButlerKuroshitsujiManga · 20064.0In Victorian era Europe, a young boy loses everything he once held near and dear to a vicious plot. In his moment of death, he strikes a deal with a demon: his soul, in exchange for revenge. Ciel Phantomhive is now the head of the…Highest rated
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4.5Monster
Manga · 1994 · 162 ch
MonsterMONSTERManga · 1994 · 162 ch4.5Everyone faces uncertainty at some point in their lives. Even a brilliant surgeon like Kenzo Tenma is no exception. But there’s no way he could have known that his decision to stop chasing professional success and instead concentrate on…
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4.5Umineko When They Cry Episode 8: Twilight of the Golden Witch
Manga · 2012 · 42 ch
Umineko When They Cry Episode 8: Twilight of the Golden WitchUmineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru Episode 8: Twilight of the Golden WitchManga · 2012 · 42 ch4.5It's time once again for the annual family gathering on Rokkenjima! Ange Ushiromiya is just getting over a cold, but that won't dampen her excitement at seeing her cousins again! Granddad couldn't be more thrilled to see his beloved… 4.420th Century Boys
Manga · 1999 · 249 ch
20th Century Boys20 Seiki ShounenManga · 1999 · 249 ch4.4Humanity, having faced extinction at the end of the 20th century, would not have entered the new millennium if it weren't for them. In 1969, during their youth, they created a symbol. In 1997, as the coming disaster slowly starts to…
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4.3The Apothecary Diaries
Light Novel · 2014
The Apothecary DiariesKusuriya no HitorigotoLight Novel · 20144.3In 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…
4.3Umineko When They Cry Episode 7: Requiem of the Golden Witch
Manga · 2011 · 48 ch
Umineko When They Cry Episode 7: Requiem of the Golden WitchUmineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru Episode 7: Requiem of the Golden WitchManga · 2011 · 48 ch4.3The time for logical debate and magical feints has come to an end; the revelation of the truth about Beatrice the Golden Witch is at hand. To facilitate this, game master Bernkastel has chosen Will Wright the Mage-Hunter to step onto her…
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4.3Strangulation: Kubishime Romanticist
Light Novel · 2002 · 9 ch
Strangulation: Kubishime RomanticistKubishime Romanticist: Ningen Shikkaku - Zerozaki HitoshikiLight Novel · 2002 · 9 ch4.3Now that he’s a cool college student, our anti-hero Iichan thinks his crime-solving days are behind him. Cynical, sarcastic and minimally engaged in his studies, Iichan is much more interested in his own feelings of disaffection and…
4.3Owarimonogatari: End Tale
Light Novel · 2013 · 117 ch
Owarimonogatari: End TaleOwarimonogatariLight Novel · 2013 · 117 ch4.3Volume 1: Before we witness the series’ climactic showdown in the third volume of the End Tale—each part of which forms its own cohesive whole—narrator Araragi wrestles with a crucial bit of history that had turned him into the loner we… 4.3GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka
Manga · 1997 · 208 ch
GTO: Great Teacher OnizukaGTOManga · 1997 · 208 ch4.3Former juvenile delinquent Onizuka finds himself thrust into to role of high school teacher, facing students who behave just as he used to and an administration that doesn't trust him. Using the brash an unorthodox methods he picked up in…Mature
4.3Pluto
Manga · 2003 · 65 ch
PlutoPLUTOManga · 2003 · 65 ch4.3In 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…Mature
4.3The Apothecary Diaries
Manga · 2017
The Apothecary DiariesKusuriya no HitorigotoManga · 20174.3Maomao, a young woman trained in the art of herbal medicine, is forced to work as a lowly servant in the inner palace. Though she yearns for life outside its perfumed halls, she isn’t long for a life of drudgery! Using her wits to break a…
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4.3Bungo Stray Dogs Beast
Manga · 2019 · 22 ch
Bungo Stray Dogs BeastBungou Stray Dogs BEASTManga · 2019 · 22 ch4.3In a parallel universe of Bungo Stray Dogs, Ryuunosuke Akutagawa’s desperate mission to save his younger sister leads to him being recruited by the armed detective agency! (Source: Yen Press) 4.2Death Note
Manga · 2003 · 108 ch
Death NoteDEATH NOTEManga · 2003 · 108 ch4.2Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies…
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4.2Umineko When They Cry Episode 5: End of the Golden Witch
Manga · 2010 · 27 ch
Umineko When They Cry Episode 5: End of the Golden WitchUmineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru Episode 5: End of the Golden WitchManga · 2010 · 27 ch4.2Beatrice is dead, her soul shattered by Battler at her own request. Though her body sits across the chessboard, she is no more than a husk of the laughing, impulsive witch she once was. Lambdadelta is more than happy to preside over the…
4.2Umineko When They Cry Episode 6: Dawn of the Golden Witch
Manga · 2010 · 26 ch
Umineko When They Cry Episode 6: Dawn of the Golden WitchUmineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru Episode 6: Dawn of the Golden WitchManga · 2010 · 26 ch4.2Battler assumes control of the sixth game, wielding his new golden truth as he parries the logical blows of the detective-and-witch, Erika Furudo. For Battler, what began as a contest over the existence of magic has become a fight to…
4.2Tsukimonogatari: Possession Tale
Light Novel · 2012 · 19 ch
Tsukimonogatari: Possession TaleTsukimonogatariLight Novel · 2012 · 19 ch4.2Launching the third or “Final Season” of the international cult-hit series, Possession Tale returns the narrator’s headset back to high school senior and amateur savior Koyomi Araragi, who used to eschew friendship once upon a time because… 4.2Bungo Stray Dogs
Manga · 2012
Bungo Stray DogsBungou Stray DogsManga · 20124.2Having been kicked out of the orphanage, a despairing young man by the name of Atsushi Nakajima rescues a strange man from a suicide attempt--Osamu Dazai. Turns out that Dazai is part of an armed-detective agency staffed by individuals…
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4.2Moriarty the Patriot
Manga · 2016
Moriarty the PatriotYuukoku no MoriartyManga · 20164.2In 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…
4.2Detective Conan
Manga · 1994
Detective ConanMeitantei ConanManga · 19944.2Precocious high school student Jimmy Kudo uses his keen powers of observation and astute intuition to solve mysteries that have left law enforcement officials baffled. Hot on the trail of a suspect, Jimmy is accosted from behind and fed a…
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4.2Decapitation: Kubikiri Cycle
Light Novel · 2002 · 9 ch
Decapitation: Kubikiri CycleKubikiri Cycle: Aoiro Savant to ZaregotozukaiLight Novel · 2002 · 9 ch4.2A dropout from an elite Houston-based program for teens is on a visit to a private island. Its mistress, virtually marooned there, surrounds herself with geniuses, especially of the young and female kind—one of whom ends up headless one…
4.2Umineko When They Cry Episode 4: Alliance of the Golden Witch
Manga · 2009 · 29 ch
Umineko When They Cry Episode 4: Alliance of the Golden WitchUmineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 4: Alliance of the Golden WitchManga · 2009 · 29 ch4.2Twelve years after her loved ones were brutally murdered at the annual family meeting, Ange Ushiromiya, now eighteen, is the sole heir of the Ushiromiya family. Ostracized by her peers, Ange seeks companionship in the pages of a diary left…
4.2Hyouka
Light Novel · 2001 · 9 ch
HyoukaLight Novel · 2001 · 9 ch4.2Oreki Houtarou is a self-proclaimed "energy-saver" - that is, he will not actively waste energy doing things that aren't necessary. Though he had no interest whatsoever in joining any clubs upon entering Kamiyama High School, he was…
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4.1Umineko When They Cry Episode 3: Banquet of the Golden Witch
Manga · 2009 · 22 ch
Umineko When They Cry Episode 3: Banquet of the Golden WitchUmineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 3: Banquet of the Golden WitchManga · 2009 · 22 ch4.1Time holds little meaning for Beatrice the Millennial Witch. Replaying the events leading up to the Golden Banquet again and again only gives her more opportunity to play with her new favorite toy, Battler Ushiromiya. The boy's will to…
4.1I’m in Love with the Villainess
Light Novel · 2019 · 30 ch
I’m in Love with the VillainessWatashi no Oshi wa Akuyaku Reijou.Light Novel · 2019 · 30 ch4.1The story of a reincarnated gamer pursuing her villainous lady love at a fantasy girls’ academy! Ordinary office worker Oohashi Rei has just woken up in the body of the protagonist of her favorite girls’ otome game, Revolution. To her…
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4.1Don't Call it Mystery
Manga · 2017
Don't Call it MysteryMystery to Iu NakareManga · 20174.1Totonou is a young man who stands out—partly for his bushy hair, partly for his finely honed abilities of observation and deduction. When Totonou is accused of murder, he puts his skills to work delving into the lives of the cops…
4.1SoreMachi: And Yet the Town Moves
Manga · 2005 · 138 ch
SoreMachi: And Yet the Town MovesSoredemo Machi wa MawatteiruManga · 2005 · 138 ch4.1There is a small maid cafe that nearly nobody goes to – Maid Cafe Seaside, quiet enough for Sanada to do his homework in. His airheaded classmate Arashiyama works as the cafe’s only maid, even though she sure doesn’t act like one. What…
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4.1Lord of Mysteries
Manga · 2025
Lord of MysteriesGuimi Zhi ZhuManga · 20254.1Zhou Mingrui possessed and reborn Klein Moretti who committed suicide due to the sealed artifact "Antigonus Family Notes". Zhou Mingrui once again held a "Transfer Ceremony" in order to return to Earth, but accidentally entered a…
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4.1Bungo Stray Dogs: BEAST
Light Novel · 2019 · 4 ch
Bungo Stray Dogs: BEASTBungou Stray Dogs BEASTLight Novel · 2019 · 4 ch4.1What if the Port Mafia’s attack dog, Ryuunosuke Akutagawa, had joined the Armed Detective Agency? Likewise, what if Atsushi Nakajima belonged to the Port Mafia? In the parallel universe of Bungo Stray Dogs: Beast, Akutagawa’s desperate…Mature
4.0Call of the Night
Manga · 2019 · 203 ch
Call of the NightYofukashi no UtaManga · 2019 · 203 ch4.0One sleepless night, Ko slips out to walk the streets. Life after dark is a revelation! When flirtatious Nazuna invites Ko to spend the night at her place in an abandoned building, he’s stoked! But then he awakens to kisses on his neck… 4.0Black Butler
Manga · 2006
Black ButlerKuroshitsujiManga · 20064.0In Victorian era Europe, a young boy loses everything he once held near and dear to a vicious plot. In his moment of death, he strikes a deal with a demon: his soul, in exchange for revenge. Ciel Phantomhive is now the head of the…
4.0My Dearest Self With Malice Aforethought
Manga · 2018 · 98 ch
My Dearest Self With Malice AforethoughtShinai naru Boku e Satsui wo KometeManga · 2018 · 98 ch4.0Eiji the college-age virgin dreams of someday having a girlfriend...until he wakes up one day with his "girlfriend" in his bed with him! Not only that, his buddy tells him he got in a fight...and that three days have passed that Eiji…
4.0Zankoku na Kami ga Shihai Suru
Manga · 1993 · 86 ch
Zankoku na Kami ga Shihai SuruManga · 1993 · 86 ch4.0Jeremy, a sensitive but outgoing 15 year old, is delighted to hear the news of his neurotic and excitable mother's remarriage to a wealthy British man. However, much to his horror, his sweet-talking new step-father Greg, soon begins to…
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4.0Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun: IruMafia Edition
Manga · 2023
Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun: IruMafia EditionMairimashita! Iruma-kun if: Episode of Ma-fiaManga · 20234.0In this brand-new spinoff of the runaway hit series, Iruma is a dirt-poor but kind young boy who grows up in a ruthless city slum. One day, Iruma gives a severely injured old man his last loaf of bread and nurses the stranger back to…
4.0Erased
Manga · 2012 · 49 ch
ErasedBoku dake ga Inai MachiManga · 2012 · 49 ch4.0Twenty-nine-year-old Satoru Fujinuma is floundering through life. Amid his daily drudgery, he finds himself in the grip of an incredible, inexplicable, and uncontrollable phenomenon that rewinds time, a condition that seems to only make…
4.0House of Five Leaves
Manga · 2005 · 59 ch
House of Five LeavesSaraiya GoyouManga · 2005 · 59 ch4.0Masterless samurai Akitsu Masanosuke is a skilled and loyal swordsman, but his naïve, diffident nature has more than once caused him to be let go by the lords who employ him. Hungry and desperate, he agrees to become a bodyguard for…
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4.0Psycho Logical
Light Novel · 2002 · 11 ch
Psycho LogicalLight Novel · 2002 · 11 ch4.0Tomo, Neon, Ii, Kyouichirou, Shito, Misachi, Kokoromi, Kasugai, Gaisuke, Jun, Kouta, Houko, Nanami Dead Blue (Tomo Kunagisa) ——is desperate! "You actually hate Tomo Kunagisa, don't you?" The genius engineer and former member of Tomo…
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4.0Unholy Blood
Manga · 2020 · 93 ch
Unholy BloodWhite BloodManga · 2020 · 93 ch4.0All pure-blooded vampire Ha-Yan Park wanted to do was live a normal life. But the rise of half-bloods ten years ago transformed the world into a dangerous and frightening place—robbing her of her one true wish. Determined to return Korea…