Tantei Neko Machida creator launches new manga
Manavu Kishimoto has launched a new mystery comedy manga, with its first chapter available on Weekly CoroCoro Comic.
Manga creator Manavu Kishimoto has launched Tantei Neko Machida (探偵猫町田), a new mystery comedy on Shogakukan’s Weekly Coro Coro Comic online magazine. The series follows the eccentric detective Neko Machida and his assistant Myako as they take on difficult cases using their unusual deductive abilities.1
Kishimoto’s new series began on Tuesday, 13 October, according to Anime News Network’s report, which cites the official Weekly Coro Coro Comic listing. The Japanese publisher’s page describes Tantei Neko Machida as a mystery gag manga, and lists Kishimoto — whose name is also rendered as Manavu Kashimoto in English-language reporting — as the creator.12
What the new manga is about
The official description presents Neko Machida as a mysterious detective whose distinctive reasoning leads him and Myako into a succession of cases. It bills the series as an offbeat blend of mystery, comedy and fantasy, rather than a conventional serious detective story.2 The publisher’s page also identifies the work as a Weekly Coro Original title and lists its first chapter as having launched on 13 October. A second chapter is scheduled for 27 October, according to the page checked for this report.2
The title is available through the Weekly Coro Coro Comic website, where the first chapter is marked as free to read at the time of writing. That gives readers a direct way to sample the setup before the next scheduled update, although availability and access conditions can change.2
Kishimoto’s previous work
Kishimoto is best known for Croquette!, which debuted in Shogakukan’s Monthly Coro Coro Comics in 2001 and later inspired a television anime adaptation. The creator also launched the Croquette! Black Label sequel in 2017; that series later moved to Weekly Coro Coro Comic and concluded in May 2025.1
Other credited works include Shuriken Tonma and Henoheno Kappa Sensei. The background matters here because Tantei Neko Machida is not an unrelated one-off listing: it is the latest manga from a creator with a long history in Shogakukan’s children’s and comedy manga ecosystem.1
Our opinion
This is a clean, reader-friendly launch story because the news is concrete: a named creator has started a new manga, the official publisher page is live, and readers can already access its opening chapter. The premise sounds deliberately silly rather than grim, which makes the title worth watching for readers who enjoy mystery stories with a broad comic streak. The early hook is the pairing of a strange detective and an assistant solving cases through unconventional logic; whether that premise can sustain a full run will depend on the quality and variety of those cases.
For now, the sensible takeaway is simple: Tantei Neko Machida is a new Weekly CoroCoro mystery comedy from the creator of Croquette!, with its first chapter available and another update scheduled for 27 October.12