What is Cops manga?

The police (civil servants) are the good guys in the battle against crime. Though they try hard, they are usually outclassed by super-criminals or criminal organizations in anime, requiring the help of special units or some lone hero.

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Chainsaw Man

(Chainsaw Man)

8.48

Description:

The name says it all! Denji's life of poverty is changed forever when he merges with his pet chainsaw dog, Pochita! Now he's living in the big city and an official Devil Hunter. But he's got a lot to learn about his new job and chainsaw powers! (Source: Mangaplus) Notes: - Nominated for the 2020 Manga Taisho Award. - Winner of the 2021 Kono Manga ga Sugoi Award. - Winner of the 66th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shounen category. - Winner of the 2021 and 2022 Harvey Award for Best Manga.
Type

manga

Volumes

11

Chapters

97

Rating

Violence & blood, partial nudity

Status

finished

Started

2018-12-03

Pluto

(Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka)

8.26

Description:

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. (Source: VIZ Media)
Type

manga

Volumes

8

Chapters

65

Status

finished

Started

2003-09-09

Keishichou Tokuhanka 007

8.25

Description:

The “Special crime investigation department 007″ includes the most capable and extraordinary investigators and Fuyuki, who also becomes one of its members, is very capable, to. And she is paired with Kuze, a cool and very bishonen detective. Their combination proves to be the most dangerous one the police headquarters had ever seen!
Type

manga

Volumes

11

Chapters

43

Status

finished

Started

2006-10-20

Purple Hyacinth

8.25

Description:

Her ability to detect lies has made her an outstanding officer of the law – despite being haunted by her inability to save the ones she loved from a gruesome fate many years ago. Now, she uses her powerful gift to defend the defenseless at any cost – even if it means teaming up with a deadly assassin to fight evil in a world gone mad. (Source: Webtoons)
Type

oel

Rating

Status

current

Started

2019-05-21

Case Closed

(Detective Conan)

8.22

Description:

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. (Source: ANN)
Type

manga

Volumes

0

Rating

Status

current

Started

1994-02-02

Billy Bat

8.19

Description:

The story is set in 1949 and follows Japanese-American comic book artist Kevin Yamagata as he draws the popular detective series "Billy Bat" for "Marble Comics." When he learns he may have unconsciously copied the character from an image he saw while serving in occupied Japan, he returns to Japan to get permission to use Billy Bat from its original creator. Upon arriving there, however, he becomes embroiled in a web of murder, cover-ups, and prophecy that all leads back to Billy Bat. It is soon evident, however, that the truth of Billy Bat's nature is far larger than Kevin could ever guess, spanning millennia and across the world. (Source: Wikipedia)
Type

manga

Volumes

20

Chapters

165

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2008-10-16

Detective Conan

(Case Closed)

8.19

Description:

Novel 1 The Legend of the Buried Treasure of Koshu Released date: May 15, 2005 Novel 2 Murder Symphony Released date: March 15, 2006 Novel 3 A Challenge Letter to Shinichi Kudo: Prologue Until Goodbye Released date: October 15, 2006 Novel 4 Shinichi Kudo Returns ~Confrontation with the Black Organization~ Released date: December 19, 2007 Novel 5 The Witch of Ejinbara Released date: July 11, 2008 Novel 6 A Challenge Letter to Shinichi Kudo ~The Mystery of the Legendary Bird~ Released date: April 16, 2011 Novel 7 A Challenge Letter to Shinichi Kudo ~Murder in the Court~ Released date: September 16, 2011 Novel 8 A Challenge Letter to Shinichi Kudo ~Love Formula Murder Case~ Released date: December 14, 2011 Novel 9 A Challenge Letter to Shinichi Kudo ~Showdown! Shinichi Kudo vs Heiji Hattori~ Released date: April 12, 2012
Type

novel

Volumes

0

Rating

Status

current

Started

2005-05-15

Yellow

(Yellow)

8.14

Description:

Goh and Taki are a pair of "drug snatchers", often employed by an unknown third party to take drugs and many other things from the mafia, and sometimes private vendors. Goh is gay while Taki is straight, yet they form a solid partnership to carry out their dangerous work. Yet Goh makes no secret of his undying affections for Taki, no matter how Taki resists them, Goh never gives up. With this determination, will Taki forever be able to refuse Goh's feelings? or will he be forced to man up to something larger than himself?
Type

manga

Volumes

4

Chapters

16

Status

finished

Started

2001-10-04

Akumetsu

8.07

Description:

Nagasawa Shiina was just your average 3rd year high schooler when her father's company went bankrupt. To ease the strain on her family, she secretly begins prostituting herself. At her first job, a mysterious masked man crashes the party... and it's someone she knows... Akumetsu is the story of Hazama Shou, who defends his own view of justice in a vigilante manner while wearing a mask and calling himself Akumetsu.
Type

manga

Volumes

18

Chapters

162

Status

finished

Started

2002-10-01

Case Closed Short Stories

(Detective Conan Short Stories)

7.95

Description:

Short stories drawn by Aoyama's assistants which do not belong to the main plot.
Type

manga

Volumes

0

Rating

Status

current

Started

1997-01-01

Sanctuary

(Sanctuary)

7.91

Description:

Akira Hojo and Chiaki Asami are childhood friends who have experienced hell and lived to tell about it. They arrive in Japan to attend school, and soon witness the corruption and apathy of the country's population. Enraged, Akira and Asami vow to create a new Japan; a sanctuary with a new form of politics, devoid of corruption, where people are empowered to participate in the politics and future of their country. To accomplish this, Hojo and Asami aim to conquer Japan through two dramatically different routes: the Japanese Diet and the Yazuka. Decided by a game of rock-paper-scissors, Hojo ventures to seize control of the underworld while Asami pursues the position of Prime Minister. Sanctuary is a dark, political thriller that tells the story of these two friends as they attempt to change Japan from the inside out and create their sanctuary. (Source: MAL Rewrite)
Type

manga

Volumes

12

Chapters

105

Rating

Status

finished

Started

1990-10-30

Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo

(The Kindaichi Case Files: File Series)

7.89

Description:

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. (Source: Tokyopop)
Type

manga

Volumes

27

Chapters

219

Status

finished

Started

1993-02-17

City Hunter

(City Hunter)

7.87

Description:

Ryo Saeba is a "sweeper" in the city of Tokyo. His works as a trouble shooter, cleaning the streets of vermin, and helping out desperate people. Sometimes he's a bodyguard, sometimes he's an assassin, whatever Ryo does he does it well. In fact his only flaw is his hormones - he loves the ladies and sometimes turns into an idiot when he's near them. Thankfully he's got people like his partner Kaori Makimura to keep him in check. (Source: ANN)
Type

manga

Volumes

35

Chapters

193

Rating

Status

finished

Started

1985-02-26

Karasugaoka Don't Be Shy!!

7.86

Description:

Sou Izuhara, the leader of the crime prevention group "VOICE" that protects east Karasugaoka, realizes he's in love with the man he keeps butting heads with and leader of the rival group "Karasukai," Tetsuji Shinba...!? (Source: Akita Shoten, translated)
Type

manga

Volumes

2

Chapters

12

Status

finished

Started

2018-06-01

Sunjeong Villain

(Villain with a Crush)

7.79

Description:

Dumped after confessing to her first crush of three years, Ro-Sa Park falls for her second when the nation’s favorite Superpowered Police Officer, Do-Ryeong Han, swoops in to save her as she’s plummeting from a toppling building. A few years later, a mysterious villain called Blackdog appears, but Do-Ryeong notices something is not quite right. Will the world’s worst villain ever win the heart of the strongest hero in the country? (Source: WEBTOONS, edited)
Type

manhwa

Status

current

Started

2022-07-20

Meitantei Conan: Zero no Tea Time

7.78

Description:

The manga focuses on the life of the triple agent as he attempts to keep all his different roles in check. (Source: Crunchyroll)
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2018-05-09

Kanshikan Tsunemori Akane

(Inspector Akane Tsunemori)

7.77

Description:

Adaptation of the Psycho-Pass anime. In the near future, it is possible to instantaneously measure a person's mental state, personality, and the probability that a person will commit crimes with technology called the Dominator. Just thinking about a crime can make you guilty, and in this world there is no mercy for criminals. Detectives work in pairs (one Enforcer and one Inspector) with Enforcers delivering lethal justice, and Inspectors making sure their partners don't take things too far. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

6

Chapters

26

Status

finished

Started

2012-11-02

GunSmith Cats Burst

7.72

Description:

Rally Vincent and Minnie-May Hopkins are two regular American girls. Regular American girls who own a gun shop, and might have dabbled in prostituion, respectively. And who happen to be a crack shot and an explosives expert, respectively. These might be odd skills for American girls, but these two happen to be Chicago's top bounty hunters. Rally can shoot the trigger off a gun from a good distance, and May generally wreaks havoc with explosions and cuteness. And together, with some very useful friends and associates, they make up the Gunsmith Cats. "Burst" finds our ladies back at work, back in action, and . . . back in trouble. ( by Darkhorse Comics)
Type

manga

Volumes

5

Chapters

51

Status

finished

Started

2004-09-01

The Ghost in the Shell

(The Ghost in the Shell)

7.72

Description:

In the near future, technology has firmly taken root into society at large. Cybernetic implants are nothing uncommon and robots roam as plentiful as humans, all connected through their ''ghosts'' to the electronic datastreams of the net. Major Motoko Kusanagi and the Public Security Section 9 find themselves in a constant battle with the newly created wave of technological terrorists and cyber-hackers. But things take a turn once Motoko gets involved in a certain case involving an extremely dangerous ''ghost'' hacker nicknamed the Puppeteer, as she dives deeper and deeper into the limitless reality of the net, to reach her own startling conclusions. (Source: ANN)
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

11

Rating

Status

finished

Started

1989-05-01

Tantei Gakuen Q

7.7

Description:

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. (Source: Wikipedia)
Type

manga

Volumes

22

Chapters

172

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2001-09-17

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