| Pretty Boy Detective Club | |
 First novel volume cover | |
| 美少年探偵団 (Bishōnen Tanteidan) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Mystery[1] Coming-of-age[2] |
| Created by | Nisio Isin |
| Novel series | |
| Written by | Nisio Isin |
| Illustrated by | Kinako |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| English publisher | |
| Imprint | Kodansha Taiga |
| Original run | October 20, 2015 – May 14, 2021 |
| Volumes | 12 |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Nisio Isin |
| Illustrated by | Suzuka Oda |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| English publisher | |
| Magazine | Aria Shōnen Magazine Edge |
| Demographic | Shōjo Shōnen |
| Original run | April 28, 2016 – July 17, 2019 |
| Volumes | 5 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Akiyuki Shinbo[a] Hajime Ootani |
| Produced by | Yōhei Itō (Kodansha) Tatsuya Ishikawa (Aniplex) Norihiko Kusano (ABC Animation) |
| Written by | Series composition: Akiyuki Shinbo Shaft[b] Scripts: Yukito Kizawa |
| Music by | Masatomo Ota EFFY |
| Studio | Shaft |
| Licensed by | Aniplex of America |
| Original network | ANN (ABC, TV Asahi) |
| Original run | April 11, 2021 – June 27, 2021 |
| Episodes | 12 |
Pretty Boy Detective Club (Japanese: 美少年探偵団, Hepburn: Bishōnen Tanteidan), also known as the Bishōnen Series (美少年シリーズ), is a Japanese mystery novel series written by Nisio Isin and illustrated by Kinako. Kodansha released twelve volumes from October 2015 to May 2021 under their Kodansha Taiga label. A manga adaptation with art by Suzuka Oda was serialized from 2016 to 2019. It was collected in five tankōbon volumes. Both the novel series and the manga are licensed in North America by Vertical.[3] An anime television series adaptation by Shaft aired from April 11 to June 27, 2021, on ABC and TV Asahi's Animazing!!! programming block.
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