English Title: Pretty Boy Detective Club
Japanese Title: 美少年探偵団 — Bishonen Tanteidan
Author: Nisioisin – 西尾 維新
Illustrator: Kinako – キナコ
Translator: Winifred Bird
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Romance, School Life
Original Run: October 2015 – 2019
English Run: September 2020 – ongoing
Japanese Publisher: Kodansha Taiga
English Publisher: Vertical
Volumes in Japanese: 11 (Completed)
Volumes in English: 3 (In Progress)

• English Website — Japanese Website
• MAL Entry — Forum — Anime-Planet
• Baka Updates — LNDB

Synopsis:

From the renowed author NISIOISIN, the creator of BAKEMONOGATARI, Zaregoto Series and KATANAGATARI.
Comes a new, innovative mystery series, Pretty Boy Detectives Club!

Mayumi Dojima, a second-year student at the exclusive Yubiwa Academy middle school, has lost something – a star she glimpsed just once, ten long years ago. But help is on the way, in the form of the unofficial, secretive, and thoroughly mysterious Pretty Boy Detective Club! Rumored to solve problems within the school (most of which they themselves may well have created) for reasons aesthetic rather than financial, these five gorgeous boys sweep Mayumi into their world of excitement, danger, and overwhelming beauty. So begins the thrilling new mystery series from renowned author NISIOISIN!

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Volume 1 — The Dark Star That Shines for You Alone
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Released September 29, 2020 — ISBN-13: 9781949980516

Volume 2 — The Swindler, the Vanishing Man, and the Pretty Boys
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Releasing December 29, 2020 -- ISBN-13: 9781949980875

Volume 3 — The Pretty Boy in the Attic
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Releasing April 27, 2021 — ISBN-13: 9781949980882

Reviews of Pretty Boy Detective Club

• Justus R. Stone: Vol 1 — Vol 2

Illustrations Sampler

Anime Adaptation

MAL Entry — Aired April 11, 2021 to ?

Note: Adapted volumes # to # of the light novel series

Manga Adaptation

MAL Entry — (Japan) Published April 2016 – Ongoing
(English) Published by Vertical. Published July 2021 – Ongoing
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If you liked Pretty Boy Detective Club, you might also want to try…

• Zaregoto Series — also written by Nisioisin, mystery
• Monogatari Series — also written by Nisioisin
• Katanagatari — also written by Nisioisin
  

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