Sleuths and clever detectives have been sorted by popularity for this new ranking, resulting in one crime-solving series easily comprising most of the list considering detectives are usually in vast abundance in such a genre.
1. Koichi Zenigata (Lupin III)
2. Miwako Sato (Detective Conan)
3. Shinya Kogami (Psycho-Pass)
4. Rei Furuya/Tooru Amuro (Detective Conan)
5. Kengo Akechi (The Kindaichi Case Files)
6. Juuzou Megure (Detective Conan)
7. Kankichi Ryoutsu (KochiKame)
8. Shuichi Akai (Detective Conan)
9. Akane Tsunemori (Psycho-Pass)
10. Wataru Takagi (Detective Conan)
Zenigata on top! For a guy who always failed to catch his crook (Lupin).
Dude’s a badass detective, it’s just a bad skills compatability with Lupin is all. I know none of the rest.
What about Yakushiji Ryoko from Yakushiji Ryouko no Kaiki Jikenbo or Gotou Kiichi from Patlabor.
The first two I thought of.
No Togusa?
No Ooishi-san?
No Miyuki and Natsumi?
Doesn’t Jet count because of his time with ISSP?
This list is WAY too normie.
Even if they solve crimes, aren’t Natsumi and Miyuki technically just traffic officers? I forget if they get promoted later on. (I like the OVAs more than the rest of the YOU’RE UNDER ARREST anime, to be honest, since the OVAs had spectacularly-animated car chases.)
If people aren’t as pedantic about the exact definition of “detective”, they’re probably overlooked since it’s been almost a decade since the most recent season of You’re Under Arrest aired (and roughly a quarter century since the last chapter of the manga) and it’s always been much more of a niche anime/manga franchise in Japan than is Detective Boy Conan or KochiKame.
No Victorique, no L or even Near? What the f♥♥k?! This is the first time I see an anime police or detective top list without one of these 3 characters. There’s Light’s dad in 12th place.
I’ll say it again: what the f♥♥k?!
None of those were part of the police. But yeah, there are quite a few blatant omissions.
No Victorique? i’m out.