Manga 'Mattaku Saikin no Tantei to Kitara' gets TV anime adaptation in 2025

Get Ready for a Mind-Bending Mystery Adventure! Mattaku Saikin no Tantei to Kitara Anime Coming in 2025!Meet Keiichirou Nagumo, a former genius high-school detective who’s now 35 and struggling to pay the rent. His detective agency is on the verge of collapse, and he’s lost his touch. But when a high school girl walks into his office, claiming she wants to work with him, everything changes.

Starring Junichi Suwabe (Great Pretender) as Keiichirou and Kana Hanazawa (Bakemonogatari) as Mashiro, this anime promises to be a wild ride. Rion Kujou (Yuusha ga Shinda!, Hagure Yuusha no Aesthetica) is at the helm, directing this mystery comedy masterpiece.

Igarashi’s (Senryuu Shoujo) manga has been a hit, with 700,000 cumulative copies of its volumes in circulation. The 14th volume was released in July 2023, and the 15th volume is set to drop on August 27.

Synopsis:

Nagumo Keeichirou was a genius high-school detective. No case was complex enough for him. But what happens to genius detectives when they get older?

Now 35, with bad hips, running a failing detective agency with no cases to solve and struggling to pay the rent, he’s at a dead end.

In comes a high school girl in his office who says she wants to work with him. With her help, will the out-of-touch, old-fashioned Nagumo get back the fire of his youth? (Source: MU)

Check out the special promotional video below!