“Manga adapts Edogawa's 1925 Akechi detective story featuring cross-dressing boy apprentice Kobayashi solving D. Hill murder.”
Kobayashi Shounen to Futei no Kaijin
小林少年と不逞の怪人
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Manga adapts Edogawa's 1925 Akechi detective story featuring cross-dressing boy apprentice Kobayashi solving D. Hill murder.
The manga is based on renowned Japanese mystery novelist Ranpo Edogawa's 1925 short story The Case of the Murder on D. Hill. The story is the first in Edogawa's series about the fictional private detective Kogorou Akechi. In the original short story and series, the character Yoshio Kobayashi leads the Boy Detectives Club and is Akechi's apprentice. The boy often dresses in disguise as a young woman to help solve mysteries. (Source: ANN)
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A Manga Publication
- Format 37 × 5 ch × vol
- Total read 4h 56m approx
- Published Nov 2016 – Oct 2018
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M41764 catalog