Cop Craft

MC Female Detectives are quite rare. Here's a collection of them.
Some are less realistic detectives, e.g. in a magic show.
Only the most prevalent anime (meaning an anime not difficult to find) that they are an MC in is included in this list. This excludes sequels and such.

Hands up, don't shoot! Here some of the best titles on a police theme I can think of. Most of them take place in the future and there are even police mechs in one of franchises!

Anime with jazzy James Bond-esque OPs/EDs.

Link for youtube playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL03oWZ6Yt6YqjFoQROdGFJH7uTjLbV10-

May include:

- graphic style
- bold pops of color against black
- stark silhouettes
- spotlight
- grungy and splattery textures
- people pointing / shooting handguns
- reflected images
- casino imagery (poker chips, dice, playing cards, etc.)
- spies / detectives / assassins / space cowboys
- cocktail dresses and tuxedos
- swing dancing
- kicking / fighting
- jazz music with lots of trumpets

Shows that feature main characters with twintails or prominent pigtails. Will be updated when I have some spare time since I have a larger list of them.

Anime that have a female main character that is strong. This can include: strong willed, an intellectual, physically strong, magically adept or a mix of those traits. Most of the time they are portrayed as mature and respectful.

These traits makes the character(s) heads above the average female portrayal in the anime medium.

For this list, the character[s} are:
-- Strong (of course)
and
-- A Woman (adult female / mature for their age teen)
and
-- A Main Character
or
-- Not main but appears often in the anime (not a one episode cameo character)

Please let me know if there are others out there that I have yet to have the pleasure of viewing, or left out by accident.

Thanks!

Suggested by GreyStoneFlinger

Black Rock Shooter (TV)
Futari wa Precure
Otherside Picnic
Show by Rock
Belle
Princess Connect Re:Dive
Urahara

all the anime to be included here are mostly cgi or completely cgi no matter if they are good or bad.
only TV series or ONAS will enter here, as well as continuations, but movies, OVAS or specials will not enter.

If you finished Psycho-pass and fell in love with it, then watch these Anime with Tokyo-ish vibe and sometimes sci-fi ,AI, cops or even robots included.

Anime with german language dubs.

For Matcha's requirements: 9 diverse series Under 250 popularity with 13 eps or less.

'Buddy cop is a genre with plots involving two people of very different and conflicting personalities who are forced to work together to solve a crime and/or defeat criminals, sometimes learning from each other in the process' - wikipedia

As an avid enjoyer of buddy cop I present to you a list of shows that encompass the idea of two opposite personalities working together (usually to solve crime, but may be commiting crimes, may be no crimes at all 0-0)

Ordered by relevancy (personal opinion)(tried my best dont @ me QWQ)

(I ramble a lot ^obviously, but I have added summaries of the dynamics in brackets for each show (VERY ROUGH SUMMARIES))

In this stack you will find all isekai anime, including OVAs, ONAs, specials and movies. There is some unaired stuff here too!

How many have you seen? Have fun discovering your new favourites!

Part 1: myanimelist.net/stacks/32968
Part 2: myanimelist.net/stacks/32972
Part 3: myanimelist.net/stacks/32974
Part 5: myanimelist.net/stacks/32982
Part 6: myanimelist.net/stacks/32983
Part 7: myanimelist.net/stacks/32985
Reverse Isekai: myanimelist.net/stacks/32986

Anime with male leads only.

I usually prefer characters who aren't ultimate cucks around women, so some anime featuring cuck MC's are present in the list, but the cuck level is low/bearable enough or the rest of the anime is entertaining enough to sit through MC's cucky shenanigans (cuckanigans?).. viewer discretion is advised.


PS: Only first season will be listed. If anime has more seasons, watch or skip based on experience. Not sure why other stacks list all seasons of same anime in a list.

𝙍𝙀𝙂𝙐𝙇𝘼𝙍 𝙐𝙋𝘿𝘼𝙏𝙀𝙎 | 𝙌𝙐𝘼𝙇𝙄𝙏𝙔 𝙎𝙀𝙇𝙀𝘾𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 | 𝙑𝙄𝙎𝙄𝙏 𝙋𝙍𝙊𝙁𝙄𝙇𝙀 𝙁𝙊𝙍 𝙈𝙊𝙍𝙀
Anime where the main premise or characters are related to organized crime.