Pretty Boy Detective Club

, also known as the , 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, began serialization in Kodansha's "shōjo" manga magazine "Aria" in April 2016, and it moved to Kodansha's "shōnen" manga magazine "Shōnen Magazine Edge" in October 2018 after "Aria" ceased publication in April 2018, and continued the publication until July 17, 2019. It was collected in five "tankōbon" volumes. Both the novel series and the manga are licensed in North America by Vertical. An anime television series adaptation by Shaft premiered on April 11, 2021 on ABC and TV Asahi's programming block.
Media.
Novels.
The novels are written by Nisio Isin and are illustrated by Kinako. During the development of the story in the "Bōkyaku Tantei" series, the "Pretty Boy Detective Club" was a group originally intended to appear there, but Nisio Isin decided it could be published as an independent story. Kodansha has published eleven volumes from October 2015 to December 2019 under their Kodansha Taiga imprint. In an interview for the Japanese magazine "Da Vinci," Nisio stated his plans for 2021 and said that he wanted to develop a new story in the series because of the anime adaptation. On March 13, 2021 the new volume titled "The Pretty Boy in the Rue Morgue" was announced. It was released on May 14, 2021. The novels are licensed in North America by Vertical, which has published three volumes of the series. The English translation was written by Winifred Bird.
Manga.
The English release is an omnibus 2-in-1 volume.
Anime.
An anime adaptation was announced on the tenth volume of the novel on November 22, 2019. The television series will be under the chief direction of Akiyuki Shinbo, direction of Hajime Ootani, animated by Shaft, produced by Aniplex, featuring character designs adapted for animation by Hiroki Yamamura, and music composed by Masatomo Ota and EFFY. Shinbo and Shaft are serving as series script supervisors, and Yukito Kizawa is writing the scripts themselves. The series premiered on April 11, 2021 on ABC and TV Asahi's programming block. Sumika performed the series' opening theme song "Shake & Shake," while the series' cast Ayumu Murase, Taito Ban, Toshiki Masuda, Shōgo Yano, and Gen Satō performed the ending theme song "Beautiful Reasoning." Aniplex of America licensed the series and streamed it on Funimation.