Top 15 Shounen Detective Manga Recommendations

Here's the Summary [Personal Choice]:

15. Talentless Nana

Alt Name: Munou na Nana
Authors: Looseboy (story), Furuya Iori (art)
Year: 2016 - Present
Genres: Drama, Horror, Shounen, Island, Psychological, School Life, Supernatural, Superpowers, Thriller, Adapted to Anime
Synopsis:

It is the year 20XX. Earth has been assaulted by monsters known as 'the Enemy of Humanity'. In order to deal with this threat, special schools comprised of teenagers with extraordinary abilities were formed. These people, who came to be known as 'the Talented', have abilities that defy the rules of reality. Among these superpowered individuals was an outlier, someone who was sent to one of these schools despite having no innate special abilities whatsoever. This is the story of our protagonist, who attempts to defeat the Enemies of Humanity through the use of intelligence and manipulation.

14. Psychometrer Eiji

Alt Name: Psychometrist Eiji
Alt Name 2: Eiji
Authors: Ando Yuma (story), Asaki Masashi(art)
Year: 1996 - Present
Genres: Comedy, Ecchi, Mystery, Shounen, Psychological, Supernatural
Synopsis:

Eiji is a teenager who's rough and rude and loves to fight. However, Eiji has a strange power; when he comes in contact with certain objects, he can see people's memories from within the objects themselves. When he finds himself involved in a dark murder case, he assists a beautiful young profiler to find the murderer. Afterwards, she continues to ask for his assistance in more complicated investigations. A detective manga with intriguing and complicated cases and a variety of characters from the complex to the caricature.

13. C.M.B.

Alt Name: C.M.B. – Shinra Hakubutsukan no Jiken Mokuroku, Christus Mansionem Benedicat - Shinra Hakubutsukan no Jiken Mokuroku, C.M.B – The Shinra Museum’s Case Index
Authors: Katou Motohiro (story & art)

Year: 2005 - Present
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Historical, Mystery, Psychological, Shounen
Synopsis:

Shinra Sakaki who inherited three rings of Wise Magi became acquaintance of Tatsuki Nanase by awkward case. Since then, Sakaki and Nanase get involved several abnormal incidents to solve trouble-making-problems behalf of other people around who requested their assistant, such as Inspector Kujirajaki.

12. Q.E.D.

Alt Name: Q.E.D. - Shoumei Shuuryou, Quod Erat Demonstrandum - Shomei Shuryo, Q.E.D – Proven End
Authors: Katou Motohiro (story & art)
Year: 1997 - Present
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, School Life, Shounen
Synopsis:

Touma Sou graduated from MIT, but he comes back to Japan because he wants to know how it feels to be a high school student. On the other hand, Mizuhara Kana is a strong girl who loves sports. Together, they are partners in solving cases that happen around them.

Note: Won the 33rd Kodansha Manga Award for shounen in 2009

11. Switch

Authors: Naked Ape/Saki Otoh (story), Naked Ape/Nakamura Tomomi (art)
Year: 2002 – 2008
Genres: Action, Drama, Mystery, Shounen, Crime, Police, Psychological, Adapted to Anime
Synopsis:

Two new investigators at the Narcotics Control Department in Japan, Kurabayashi Hal and Eto Kai, struggle against drug dealers, gangs, murderers, psychopaths, and mysterious organizations, in particular the notorious drug ring known as Ryuugen. But the gentle and caring one of the group, Kai, has problems of his own: he can become a cold-blooded, killing machine under certain scenarios. As the NCD works toward bringing down Ryuugen, however, answers began to arise, threatening to reveal the truth behind Kai's alter ego and exactly who the young criminal investigator is.

10. Usotoki Rhetoric

Alt Name: Usodoki Rhetoric
Authors: Miyako Ritsu (story & art)
Year: 2012 - 2018
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Shoujo, Historical
Synopsis:

Sixteen-year-old Kanoko Urabe knows that someone is lying if she can hear the strange, echoing sound of clanging metal in their voice. As a young and overly honest child, she would point out the lies of other villagers, and was ostracized as a result. She is eventually forced to leave her hometown and tries to find a place for herself in the city of Tsukumoya in 1920s Japan.

9. Tantei Gakuen Q

Alt Name: Detective Academy Q, Detective School Q
Authors: Amagi Seimaru (story), Satou Fumiya (art)
Year: 2001 – 2005
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Shounen, Crime, Psychological, School Life, Adapted to Anime
Synopsis:

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.

8. Shinrei Tantei Yakumo

Alt Name: Psychic Detective Yakumo, Spirit Detective Yakumo
Authors: Kaminaga Manabu (story), Miyako Ritsu, Oda Suzuka(art)
Year: 2007 - 2016
Genres: Horror, Mystery, Romance, Shoujo, Ghosts, Supernatural, Based on a Light Novel
Synopsis:

Saitou Yakumo, a college student, was born with different eye colors. His red left eye gave him a special ability to see ghosts and spirits. He believes ghosts and spirits are bound to earth because of a certain 'cause' and simply by eliminating that 'cause' will help those spirits rest in peace. Being asked for help by Ozawa Haruka, together they begin their investigation.

7. Keishichou Tokuhanka 007

Alt Name: Shichou Tokoka 007, Metropolitan Police Department Special Offenses 007
Authors: Kaji Eiji (story & art)
Year: 2006 - 2013
Genres: Comedy, Mystery, Psychological, Romance, Shoujo, Supernatural
Synopsis:

The "Special Crime Investigation Department 007" includes the most capable and extraordinary investigators. Fuyuki, who just became one of its members, is very capable, too. She is paired with Kuze, a cool and very bishounen detective.

6. Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro

Alt Name: Demonic Detective Neuro, Neuro: Supernatural Detective
Authors: Matsui Yuusei (story & art)
Year: 2005 – 2009
Genres: Action, Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Psychological, Shounen, Demons, Supernatural, Adapted to Anime
Synopsis:

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?

5. Kindaichi Shonen no Jukenbo

Alt Name: Kindaichi, Kindaichi Case Files, Young Kindaichi’s Casebook
Authors: Kanari Youzaburou, Amagi Seimaru (story), Satou Fumiya (art)
Year: 1992 - Present
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Psychological, Romance, Shounen, School Life, Adapted to Anime
Synopsis:

High school student Kindaichi Hajime - frequently accompanied by childhood friend and (future) love interest, Nanase Miyuki - travels to various places where baffling and convoluted murders have taken place, which he then proceeds to solve thanks to a combination of brilliant deductive skills, talent at performing and figuring out magic tricks, and plain ol' good luck.

Note: Winner of the Kodansha Manga Award for shounen (1995).

4. Kusuriya no Hitorigoto

Alt Name: The Apothecary Diaries, The Pharmacist’s Monologue, The Pharmacist’s Soliloquies
Authors: Hyuuga Natsu, Nanao Ikki (story), Nekokurage (art)
Year: 2017 – Present
Genres: Drama, Seinen, Doctors, Mystery, Romance, Historical, Slice of Life, Based on a Light Novel
Synopsis:

There is a certain large country in the central plains of the mainland. In the imperial court of its emperor, there is a girl. Her name is Maomao, a pharmacist from the pleasure district, who is currently working as a maidservant in the inner palace. The girl, who surely can not be considered a beauty, is keeping a low-profile waiting for her contract to end. She is confident that she will not be “visited” by the emperor. During that, she learns about the short lives of the children of the emperor. Maomao, hearing that the two surviving children are critically ill, begins her investigation for the cause—.

Note: Won the Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Award in 2019.

3. Death Note

Authors: Ohba Tsugumi (story), Obata Takeshi (art)
Year: 2003 – 2006
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Shounen, Crime, Criminals, Mind Games, Psychological, Psychopaths, Rivalries, Secret Identity, Serial Killers, Shinigami, Supernatural, Thriller, Vigilantes, Tragedy, Adapted to Anime
Synopsis:

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects--and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil.

Note: Won the Eagle Award for Favourite Manga in 2008. Was nominated as Best Manga at the 2006 American Anime Awards, the 2007 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, an Official Selection at Angoulême International Comics Festival 2008 and Obata was nominated for Best Penciller/Inker at the 2008 Eisner Awards.

2. Monster

Authors: Urasawa Naoki (story & art)
Year: 1994 – 2001
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Seinen, Conspiracy, Crime, Doctors, Psychological, Psychopaths, Revenge, Serial Killers, Thriller, Adapted to Anime
Synopsis:

Dr. Kenzo Tenma is a young Japanese brain surgeon, working at Eisler Memorial Hospital in Düsseldorf, West Germany. Tenma is dissatisfied with the political bias of the hospital in treating patients, and seizes the chance to change things after a massacre brings fraternal twins Johan and Anna Liebert into the hospital. Johan has a gunshot wound to his head, and Anna mutters about killing; Tenma operates on Johan instead of the mayor, who arrived later. Johan is saved, but Mayor Roedecker dies; Tenma loses his social standing. Director Heinemann and the other doctors in Tenma's way are mysteriously murdered, and both children disappear from the hospital. The police suspect Tenma, but they have no evidence and can only question him.

Note: Won the 46th Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category.

1. Meitantei Conan

Alt Name: Case Closed, Detective Conan
Authors: Aoyama Gosho (story & art)
Year: 1994 - Present
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Shounen, School Life, Age Transformation, Crime, Adapted to Anime
Synopsis:

Shinichi Kudo is a high-school student who, by using observation and deduction, is good at solving mysteries. While investigating one, he is caught by the criminals that he was watching and forced to take an experimental drug. Leaving him for dead, the criminals disappear. Instead of killing him, however, the drug turns Shinichi into a little kid.

Note: Won the 46th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category in 2001.