The final chapter of Tantei wa Mou, Shindeiru (The Detective is Already Dead) was published in the December 2023 issue of Kadokawa’s Monthly Comic Alive magazine. The manga, based on the novel by Nigojuu, was adapted into a manga by Mugiko, launching in May 2020 in the monthly Comic Alive magazine. After a short hiatus in 2021, the manga returned in 2022 with the adaptation of the third volume of the novel.
The first novel in the series, written by Nigojuu and illustrated by Umibouzu, was published in November 2019 by Kadokawa’s MF Bunko J, where it won the 15th MF Bunko J newcomer award. In May 2023, Kadokawa published the 9th volume of the series in Japan and announced that the 10th volume would be released in October 2023.
Yen Press publishes the novels in English and describes the story as follows:
Kimihiko Kimizuka has always been a magnet for trouble and intrigue. For as long as he can remember, he’s been stumbling across murder scenes or receiving mysterious attache cases to transport. When he met Siesta, a brilliant detective fighting a secret war against an organization of pseudo-humans, he couldn’t resist the call to become her assistant and join her on an epic journey across the world… until a year ago, that is. Now that he has returned to a life that is normal and tepid by comparison, he knows the adventure must be over. After all, the detective is already dead.
It’s worth noting that the source material also inspired an animation with the same name, airing between July 2021 and September 2021.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MghFONe–0Q]
