Detectives These Days Are Crazy!


Detectives These Days Are Crazy! is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masakuni Igarashi. It began serialization in ASCII Media Works' manga magazine Dengeki Maoh in April 2016. An anime television series adaptation produced by Liden Films aired from July to September 2025.

Plot

About 20 years ago, Keiichiro Nagumo was an ace detective in Japan despite being in high school. No case was too tough for him to solve. However, at 35 years old, his age is catching up with him. Nagumo no longer has the youthful energy or fame from his high school days. Suffering from aching hips and back issues, on top of growing increasingly jaded, his private eye office is struggling to attract clients and making it hard to afford rent and food. One day, an excitable high school girl named Mashiro Nakanishi appears at his doorstep and wants to be his apprentice, which he initially refuses. After she helps him finish a case, Nagumo lets her stay as an unpaid apprentice. Mashiro repays him by helping him deal with a wide range of cases from finding lost pets and exterminating bugs to hunting down masked villains and violent gangsters.

Characters

;Keiichiro Nagumo
;Mashiro Nakanishi
;Cerberus
;Taro Nezu
;Yuu Asunaro
;Hana Kazamaki
;Azuha Hoshino
;Fuu-chan
;Soya Mimasaka
;Coach

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by Masakuni Igarashi, Detectives These Days Are Crazy! began serialization in ASCII Media Works' manga magazine Dengeki Maoh on April 27, 2016. Its chapters have been compiled into sixteen volumes as of September 2025. The series is licensed by One Peace Books for English publication.

Anime

An anime television series adaptation was announced on August 23, 2024. It was produced by Liden Films and directed by Rion Kujo, with Rintarō Ikeda overseeing series scripts, Isoroku Koga designing the characters and serving as chief animation director, and Tomoki Kikuya composing the music. The series airied from July 1 to September 16, 2025, on AT-X and other networks. The opening theme song is "Suffer", performed by Taiiku Okazaki, while the ending theme song is "GORI☆GORI Feez e-Girl!!", performed by Kana Hanazawa and Tomokazu Sugita. Crunchyroll is streaming the series. Medialink licensed the series in Southeast Asia and Oceania for streaming on Ani-One Asia's YouTube channel.

Reception

By August 2024, the series had over 900,000 copies in circulation.