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Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri

Also known as Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Mystery

This unusual duo brings the hidden truth into the light! Ron Kamonohashi, a private investigator with serious issues, and Totomaru Isshiki, 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"!



Tags: Detective , Police , Amnesia , Crime , Conspiracy , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Shounen , Super Power , Slapstick , School

Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo

Also known as The Kindaichi Case Files.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

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.



Tags: Detective , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Acting , Nudity , Revenge , Episodic , Love Triangle

Magic Kaito

Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Romance

Kaito wants to become a magician like his father. But 8 years after his father's death, Kaito discovers his biggest secret!

He was the famous Phantom Thief... and he was murdered! Who is the murderer?! To find out, he puts on his father's suit... and brings Phantom Thief Kid back to life!



Tags: Shounen , Magic , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Crime , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Police , Detective , School , Guns , Anti-Hero , Love Triangle

Q.E.D.: Shoumei Shuuryou

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery

Touma Sou is an MIT-graduated-student who comes back to Japan because he wants to know how it feels to be a high school student.

Mizuhara Kana is a strong girl who loves sports.

Together, they are partners in solving cases that happen around them.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Crime , Episodic , Male Protagonist , Police , Primarily Teen Cast , Detective , Shounen , POV , Revenge , School , Tragedy , Urban , Educational , Foreign , Historical , School Club , Suicide , College , Lost Civilization , Heterosexual

Kill Ao

Also known as Kill Blue .

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy

A graduate from the school of hard knocks, hit man Ogami faces his greatest challenge yet…middle school!



Tags: Age Regression , School Club , Assassins , Shounen , School , Guns , Dissociative Identities , Urban , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast

Mystery to Iunakare

Also known as Don't Call it Mystery.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Mystery

Totonou 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 investigating him and uses his insights to find the real murderer. After clearing his name, all Totonou wants to do is return to his laidback, mundane life, but he can’t help but be drawn into one mystery after another. In his own blunt but gentle way, Totonou is just trying to make sense of a chaotic world.



Tags: Crime , Episodic , Male Protagonist , Detective , Josei , Philosophy , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , College

Yuukoku no Moriarty

Also known as Moriarty the Patriot.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Mystery , Psychological , Thriller

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!



Tags: Historical , Anti-Hero , Crime , Foreign , Male Protagonist , Conspiracy , Detective , Primarily Adult Cast , Classic Literature , Politics , Gore , Suicide , Orphan , Primarily Male Cast , Class Struggle , Gender Bending , LGBTQ+ Themes , Found Family , Shounen , Transgender , Bisexual , Crossdressing , Urban

Tantei Gakuen Q

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery

Detective School Q is the story of a group of young students from Class Q of Dan Detective School (DDS), a prestigious and renowned detective academy founded by Morihiko Dan, the most famous detective in Japan, and the adventures and mysteries they unfold and solve together. They eventually work against Pluto, a mysterious organization which creates almost fool-proof plans that only a handful of detectives can solve.

The story was written under the penname Amagi, Seimaru.



Tags: Shounen , Detective , School , Crime , Memory Manipulation , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Mythology

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch

Also known as Umineko When They Cry Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

Each year, the Ushiromiya family gathers at the secluded mansion of its patriarch, the elderly Kinzo. It has been six years since Battler joined his cousins at the annual event, but their happy reunion is overshadowed by worsening weather and an eerie premonition from his youngest cousin—not to mention their parents’ feud over the inheritance. Battler doesn’t hold much stock in dark omens, nor does he believe the tales of the witch rumored to have given his grandfather a fortune in gold…and who walks the halls of the mansion to this day… But when the eighteen family members and servants are trapped on the island by the raging typhoon, the grisly events that follow leave Battler shaken to his core. Is one of his relatives desperate enough to kill for the family fortune? Or is this the work of the Golden Witch?



Note: Volume 4 also contains the tea party chapter for this episode.

Tags: Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Detective , Witch , Gore , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Magic , Meta , Foreign , Ojou-sama

Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mystery , Supernatural

The Demon Neuro has a raging hunger for 'mysteries.' Being dissatisfied with his current regime in hell, he’s come into the mortal realm in order to satiate his ever-growing appetite. The murder case of a young girl’s father seems to be sufficiently enticing for the Demon’s needs.. But what else might happen between these two? Find out in this disturbingly good murder-mystery series.

Included one-shot:
Volume 23: Rikon Choutei (Divorce Conciliation)

Tags: Detective , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Crime , Police , Demons , Urban Fantasy , Artificial Intelligence , Body Horror , Terrorism , Gore