Written by Osamu Tezuka Demographic Shōnen Volumes 2 Publisher Kodansha | Published by Kodansha Magazine Shōnen Club Genre Detective fiction | |
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Original run June 1954 – December 1956 Similar Age of Adventure, Angel's Hill, Lion Books, Alabaster, Little Wansa | ||
Chief Detective Kenichi (ケン1探偵長, Kenichi Tantei Chou) is a manga series by Osamu Tezuka published in Kodansha's Shōnen Club from June 1954 to December 1956.
Contents
Plot
The manga follows Kenichi, the chief detective of the national Boy Detectives' Street Society. He is joined by Donguri, a talking bird. Together, they travel to various exotic locations solving mysteries, revealing tricks and settling cases.
Kenichi's final case ("Incident of the House of Spiders") was published in Akita Publishing's Boken-O magazine.
Characters
The protagonist and chief of the Boy Detectives' Street Society. Every chapter has him solving a new mystery in various locations across the world.
A Myna bird that is always at Kenichi's side. He has a special ability to be able to reproduce the voice of a person it has heard only once before.