Tajuujinkaku Tantei Psycho

Description

The main character is a detective, Kazuhiko Amamiya, suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder (a.k.a. Dissociative Identity Disorder). Starting out as a violent detective series with a twist (the twist being the variant personalities that take over Detective Amamiya at various intervals), the series evolves into an exceptionally complex and involved sci-fi conspiracy story.

Type

Manga

Related Series

Tajuujinkaku Tantei Psychoco (Spin-Off)

Associated Names

MPD Detective Psycho

MPD Psycho

MPD Psycho คนจิตวิปริต (Pirate Line Art Planing)

Multiple Personality Disorder Psycho

Multiple-Personality Detective Psycho

Tajuu Jinkaku Tantei Saiko

多重人格侦探

多重人格探偵サイコ

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Latest Release(s)

v.16 c.100 by /a/nonymous 4 years ago

v.15 c.99 by /a/nonymous 4 years ago

v.15 c.98 by /a/nonymous 4 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

24 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

User Reviews

N/A

Forum

3 topics, 44 posts

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User Rating

Average: 7.4 / 10.0 (236 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.28 / 10.0

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Last Updated

April 28th, 2025 8:29am PDT - 2 weeks ago

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Genre

Drama Horror Mature Mystery Psychological Seinen
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Author(s)

Artist(s)

Year

Original Publisher

Kadokawa Shoten

Serialized In (magazine)

Shounen Ace (Kadokawa Shoten)

Comic Charge (Kadokawa Shoten)

Young Ace (Kadokawa Shoten)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Dark Horse (11 Volumes - Last release 2014)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #748

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Monthly Pos #1682 (No change)

3 Month Pos #2274

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6 Month Pos #4122

(+207)

Year Pos #4818

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List Stats

On 920 reading lists

On 985 wish lists

On 70 completed lists

On 129 unfinished lists

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MPD-Psycho Manga's End Moved to 22nd Volume

9 years ago

MPD Psycho is shounen, not seinen

15 years ago

What's the dealio?

15 years ago

User Comments [ Order by time added ]

Beautiful.

by Natsu
18 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

The only adjective I can think of to describe this manga is beautiful. Not the "pretty flowers and happiness" beautiful, I mean the "gory, dark, morbid and interesting" kind of beautiful.
The author has a fantastic imagination... I absolutely love this manga. And it's not even complete yet!
I say it's a must read for anyone who likes morbid mangas, an example of morbid could be the manga Goth, and of who doesn't mind full nudity. I must say, the nudity in this manga isn't hentaish, or even slightly erotic, the way the author puts in random nudity is just done casually.. It's like that nude person is just wearing clothes. Or at least that's how I see it.

Just... beautiful.

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Hmm...

by Romashk
17 years ago

Rating: N/A

This is indeed a sick and twisted manga. But I liked it 🙂 Plot line is good. And most pleasing thing about this mangas protagonist, that he is a badass(one of his personalities is atleast) -there is nor crying and weeping as it usually is in this genre.

BTW on Hawkss site there are bittorrent links on chapters starting #1, so I think realese data is old or not full.

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This is one of the most confusing manga I've ever read

by ShonaNingyo
9 years ago

Rating: N/A

I read it once, got halfway (like chapter 50) and then realized I'd been coasting for the past 20 chapters, not really understanding anything. I put it down. Later I tried again, put it down. Within the last year I purchased physical copies of volume 1 and volume 2 and I told myself that I would UNDERSTAND THIS MANGA.

I got out a notebook. I wrote and circled the different personalities and tried to write down what was happening as the plot points developed. I'm a bit proud to say that I understood it much more when the 4th (?) time around, but it still was very confusing.

There's a fine line an author, writer, or comic artist has to draw between "giving up the ghost too soon" and "being obscure to the point of ridiculousness". Unfortunately, this manga falls into the latter near the last half of the story. I don't know if it's the intention that I simply stop caring about what the ultimate plan was, but it sure succeeded in doing that. I've read other works that were part of big government conspiracies that--while they were either out in the open upon discovery or remained secretive--still captured my interest.

Lucy Monostone is like, I don't know, the Joker from Batman. He is never pinned down, there is never anything that really tells us who he is, much less what the heck his cronies and that frequently naked woman's true goals are. Difference between the Joker and Monostone is that with the Joker you don't care about the backstory, you're set up with the backstory not mattering. With Monostone, the backstory is all I want to know about, the motives, the exact psychology of this dude, and I'm not given that. So I'm left with a vague boogieman that becomes more than tiresome whenever the main characters fail to promptly pin him down or hit a dead end.

I'm all for psychological mind games and plot twists, but not when they add up to a bunch of circles and nothing.

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Insane

by Meepyish
18 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Crazy, artistic, creative, absolutely bloody brilliant. =)

Anyone loves psychological manga and doesn't mind gore, dead people, and more gore, should definately read this.

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It had potential and it showed for a while...

by ariminty
11 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

I love manga about psychological disorders so I decided to give it a shot. I liked it at first, especially the personalities of the characters, and how they were distinct but not too 'out there'. The first let down happened when

they decided to introduce that stuff about 'becoming the perfect person' and genetic modification. Even if I didn't like it, it drove the plot so I could accept it pretty easily. But when I really lost my interest was when ! the protagonist got killed off. At that point the manga became so boring that I couldn't read any further.

All in all, I was pretty upset that the story decided to go off on a tangent, even though, in my opinion, it had a lot of potential.

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MPD Psycho

by Teronist09
18 years ago

Rating: N/A

Freaky, but a cool read.

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Who scanned chapters 83-85?

by gsilver
6 years ago

Rating: N/A

After waiting years to read more of this, after Dark Horse dropped the ball (and scanlators never picked it up again), I found on another site that someone scanned chapters 83-85 from a google search. However, there wasn't any group information on the scans themselves, and this site doesn't have any information on it.
Does anyone know where these scans came from and if they're working on any more?

However silly the story (and over the top the violence) was, I still liked MPD Psycho.

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Dissociative beauty.

by pearlesque
18 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Subversive, salient, challenging and perceptive. Many a mangaka has tried to create a character that can be called a "condemned hero," but until I met the detective of MPD Psycho, I didn't fully appreciate the concept.

This manga's hero is damned, both because of his own actions and because of his mental instability. And yet he continues to hunt down criminals, despite the fact that many of them share his dark inclinations.

Fabulous stuff. Not for anyone with a weak stomach, though!

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Could have been better

by TundraDweller
11 years ago

Rating: 8.5 / 10.0

It started out wonderfully and went that way for quite a while, but then the quality dropped. It's still an awesome read, though. But somewhere along the line we started getting more random stuff out of nowhere and an escalating plot that was progressing too quickly. I guess that's what it is. Kinda like a poor manga adaptation of a really long and complex novel. Not saying it is bad, but it could have been better.

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good at first but...

by Giong
16 years ago

Rating: N/A

I though this one was interesting at first, like some kind of serial murderous cases investigation, the art wasn't too dark and horrible, you just feel like watching discovery channel about human body structure (in a weird way, heh...), the story is quite intense, nerve-wrecking, make your eyes wanna pop out (literally) to see what's gonna happen next... and BOOOM! after 6 vols, it become quite dull and non-sense and boring and feel like babblings of some stupid thug blah blah blah
Seem like the author just trying to show of some disgusting scene of murder and gang fight, too bad, I was disappointed 🙁

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