It draws inspiration from Seishi Yokomizo’s Kosuke Kindaichi series (which includes the novels The Honjin Murders and The Inugami Curse), and stars Hajime Kindaichi, the grandson of the famed detective.
One of the earliest mystery manga and the one that really helped the genre take off, The Kindaichi Case Files remains a hugely popular and influential franchise in Japan to this day. It draws inspiration from Seishi Yokomizo’s Kosuke Kindaichi series (which includes the novels The Honjin Murders and The Inugami Curse), and stars Hajime Kindaichi, the grandson of the famed detective. With numerous adaptations and spin-offs, audiences continue to be charmed by the clumsy and careless, yet smart and observant, teenage detective.