Suicide Line - Recommendations

• Vol: 3
• 1996

Inspector Reiko Kujou is a problematic detective who gave up the big-city police work to be transferred to the Akasaka Police Department. She's got the face and figure of a model, a keen mind, and on top of that, is an ultra-rich detective from a well-established family! Obsessed with brand-name items, doing car chases in foreign cars; she'll be stopping evil in a magnificent way! And how will the romance turn out between her and the younger detective Sanada who longs for her!? An intense romantic-suspense from Nanao Hidaka!

• Vol: 12; Ch: 85
• 2008

Rookie police detective, Ichiko Hanamori (AKA “Wanko”), is newly assigned to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s Squad 6 Criminal Investigation First Division. She dresses in strange Lolita fashion and gets in the way of crime scenes, but her dog-like sense of smell sometimes contributes to the solution of difficult cases. Through the eyes of the young woman who struggles to become a detective, “Deka Wanko” takes drastic measures to reform this brutal society.

• Vol: 4; Ch: 13
• 2007 - 2009

After graduating from the National Police Academy with excellent grades, Yoshiki Gotou is partnered with a senior detective named Shinobu Kujo. Despite having a brilliant arrest record, Shinobu is willful and abrasive, with a habit of refusing to handle cases "by the book". As the pair start to investigate serious crimes together, their relationship begins to strengthen. Although very different people, when Yoshiki and Shinobu work together, things have a habit of getting intense...

• Vol: 10
• 2016 - 2020

The manga centers on slovenly police detective Yukimasa Yugami, and his search for "true justice" as he tackles mysterious crimes and cases that he encounters in the criminal investigation department.

• Vol: 5; Ch: 28
• 2014 - 2016

• Vol: 6
• 2006

Utada Mamoru is a 32-year-old detective of Musashihara precinct who finds himself stifled by the corrupt police system. Then he is told by a black-suited man who identifies himself as Kanzaki, "You will die at 35." "We are ’supermen’ who are allowed to live as we desire. If there is a human we want to kill, we are even permitted to do so." Utada is disturbed by Kanzaki’s mysterious counsel but when the lady he has a secret crush on is brutally murdered, he begins to think of how he would like to lead the rest of his life.

• Vol: 3; Ch: 22
• 2005 - 2006

• Vol: 1
• 2023

• Vol: 10; Ch: 100
• 2002 - 2004

Kurumi Ayaki is a recently-retired police officer with a record of excellence on the force and the guts and guile to back it up. In order to earn some extra money for her upcoming wedding, she has to return to the force... and is "rewarded" with an assignment to an elite unit who solves crimes that have been classified as unsolvable. Partnered with a mysterious young genius who is unable to feel emotions, or even to leave his room, she acts as his eyes and ears to piece together clues even as her own personal life falls apart around her.

• Vol: 29
• 1975 - 1979

Joji Kano is a detective employed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's special crimes division, which handles serious criminal cases. His gun of choice is a customized .44 Magnum-caliber Ruger Blackhawk. Even though Kano and his co-workers are criticized by the media and society, he doesn't mind the criticism at all. Even though Kano has no pity for serious criminals, he holds a gentle respect for children and elderly people, as well as former criminals who want to redeem themselves from their past behavior.