Mind Games

Hajime, grandson of a great detective, takes on hard cases. It brought locked rooms and logic puzzles to a boys' magazine and set off a boom.

Shinichi Kudo, a high-school detective whose body has shrunk. A long-running mystery that widened the audience for the battle-of-wits manga to everyone.

A boy the genius surgeon Tenma saved becomes a serial killer. A weighty human drama and suspense set across Germany.

Gon sets out to become a Hunter and find his absent father Ging. With the meticulous rule design of Nen and fights decided by cunning rather than force, it keeps raising the bar for battle manga.

Light Yagami, a genius who picks up a notebook that kills whoever's name is written in it, against L. It opened new ground for boys' manga with tension and no fighting at all.

Children use their wits against the truth hidden inside an orphanage that calls itself a farm. A much-discussed work fusing battles of wits with a dark world.

Totono Kuno, a university student who keeps getting caught up in things, unpicks incidents and people's assumptions not by deduction but by asking back. An unusual work that turns conversation itself into the detective story.

Maomao, a girl who solves incidents in the rear palace with her knowledge of medicine. A huge hit as a Chinese-style mystery in adaptation.

A man reborn as an idol's child takes on the dark side of show business. Reincarnation plus entertainment plus suspense made it a phenomenon.