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Kusuriya no Hitorigoto

(The Apothecary Diaries)

8.26

Description:

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..!? (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2017-05-25

Pluto

(Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka)

8.25

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

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

Yuukoku no Moriarty

(Moriarty the Patriot)

8.22

Description:

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! (Source: Viz Media)
Type

manga

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2016-08-04

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - Episode 8: Twilight of the Golden Witch

(Umineko WHEN THEY CRY Episode 8: Twilight of the Golden Witch)

8.22

Description:

The conclusion of the long fought struggle between mystery and fantasy.
Type

manga

Volumes

9

Chapters

42

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2012-01-21

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - Episode 7: Requiem of the Golden Witch

(Umineko WHEN THEY CRY Episode 7: Requiem of the Golden Witch)

8.15

Description:

This episode features a new detective, a man called Willard H. Wright, who will uncover several truths about Rokkenjima's murder mystery. We will also get to know Lion Ushiromiya, a mysterious new member of the Ushiromiya family.
Type

manga

Volumes

9

Chapters

48

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2011-04-13

Umineko no Naku Koro ni - Episode 3: Banquet of the Golden Witch

(Umineko WHEN THEY CRY Episode 3: Banquet of the Golden Witch)

8.1

Description:

Time 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 resist the witch remains strong as the curtain rises for a third time on the Ushiromiya family's annual reunion. But as Beatrice pulls more and more players into the game, the strain on Battler's defenses is evident. Do the other members of his family hold the key to solving the witch's riddle and sealing her defeat?! (Source: Yen Press)
Type

manga

Volumes

5

Chapters

22

Rating

Horror

Status

finished

Started

2009-09-19

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - Episode 6: Dawn of the Golden Witch

(Umineko WHEN THEY CRY Episode 6: Dawn of the Golden Witch)

8.03

Description:

Battler 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 revive the fiery, vibrant Beatrice of his early clashes on the game board. The logical loops and rules of the game were already complex; now, as the game master, Battler must quickly learn how to shape the events to his and Beatrice's ultimate ends without getting locked in a closed room by Erika, the witch of truth! (Source: Yen Press)
Type

manga

Volumes

6

Chapters

26

Rating

Horror

Status

finished

Started

2010-11-18

Case Closed Short Stories

(Detective Conan Short Stories)

7.97

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

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

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Onikakushi-hen

(Higurashi WHEN THEY CRY: Abducted by Demons Arc)

7.85

Description:

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. (Source: Yen Press) 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.
Type

manga

Volumes

2

Chapters

7

Rating

Horror

Status

finished

Started

2005-03-24

If You Touch My Little Brother, You’re All Dead

(If You Touch My Little Brother, You’re All Dead)

7.83

Description:

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. - MU
Type

manhwa

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2021-07-01

Kemono Jihen

7.83

Description:

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. (Source: Manga Tokyo)
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2016-12-02

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

ACCA: 13-ku Kansatsu-ka

(ACCA 13)

7.76

Description:

Dive back into Natsume Ono's world of clandestine intrigue and delectable eats! This spin-off puts the spotlight on the supporting characters seen throughout the original series—including the five chief officers of ACCA, Nino, and Mauve! Discover closely guarded secrets, hidden thoughts, and true feelings in the Dowa Kingdom. (Source: Yen Press)
Type

manga

Volumes

6

Chapters

37

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2013-06-25

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

Hokuhokusei ni Kumo to Ike

(Follow the Clouds to the North-Northwest)

7.71

Description:

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. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Rating

Status

current

Started

2016-03-14

Q.E.D.: Shoumei Shuuryou

7.7

Description:

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. (Source: Wikipedia)
Type

manga

Volumes

50

Chapters

99

Rating

Status

finished

Started

1997-06-20

Okitegami Kyouko no Bibouroku

(The Memorandum of Kyoko Okitegami)

7.65

Description:

Twenty-five-year-old Kakushidate Yakusuke suffers from the fate of constantly stumbling into various crime scenes and ending up being the main suspect. His last resort: Okitegami Kyouko the "Quickest Detective." However, Kyouko suffers from a strange case of amnesia; whenever she falls asleep, she forgets everything that happened the previous day, making her solve the mysteries within one day.
Type

manga

Volumes

5

Chapters

19

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2015-08-06

Ouroboros: Keisatsu wo Sabaku wa Ware ni Ari

7.65

Description:

At first glance Ryuzaki Ikuo, a detective in the Shinjuku Police Department's 2nd detective unit, & Danno Tatsuya, a high ranking member of the Matsuo Yakuza clan have nothing in common. However they both are working themselves up the ladder in their respective careers for one reason which deals with a murder case that happened 15 years earlier of which both men were witnesses to.
Type

manga

Volumes

24

Chapters

144

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2009-03-06

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