Sleuth Girl

Sleuth Girl (Japanese: 探偵ガール, Hepburn: Tantei Gāru) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ryotaro Sekizawa, in his first new manga since The Time Traveler. It serves as a standalone prequel to Sekizawa's ever famous Quincy series of mangas. The series was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from August 6, 2008 to February 9, 2011 and compiled into ten tankōbon volumes.
Sleuth Girl was adapted into an anime film produced by Kyoto Animation and released by Shochiku on February 11, 2012. The series was published in English by LIVE Comics from 2009 to 2012. Kodansha USA would later assume the license following the shutdown of LIVE Comics in 2014. The film was released internationally by Insurge Pictures.
== Synopsis ==
Some decades before Quincy, there was Tiffany Reida, a detective for the Durania police department who had recently reached adulthood. Her arch enemy, a crook named Magnus Ramsey, escaped an apprehension and has managed to flee all the way to the American state of California, so Tiffany and her bodyguard/butler are dispatched there to track down Magnus and bring him to justice. Whilst in the area, however, Tiffany bumps into and saves a boy around her age, Carlton McShane, from some gangsters who recognize her, leaving her with suspicion about their affiliation. These gangsters are part of an organized crime syndicate under a mobster named Victor Wolfe, whomst Magnus is also working for. From there, Tiffany sets out to not only find Magnus, but also take down the rest of the syndicate whilst Carlton ends up tagging along on her mission, where feelings between the two characters start to blossom.
== Characters ==
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== Media ==
=== Manga ===
Sleuth Girl, written and illustrated by Ryotaro Sekizawa, was serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from August 6, 2008 to February 9, 2011. Kodansha collected its individual chapters in ten tankōbon volumes released from January 14, 2009 to April 13, 2011.
In North America, the series was licensed by LIVE Comics, who published all ten volumes between June 23, 2009 and May 22, 2012. After the imprint ceased operations in 2014, Kodansha USA took over the license and republished the entire series as an omnibus volume in 2015.
=== Film ===
Main article: Sleuth Girl (film)
In mid 2010, rumors began to circulate that an adaptation of the series was in planning stages. In the final chapter of the manga, it was announced that an anime film adaptation of the series in production. The film was produced by Kyoto Animation, who prior worked on three other Ryotaro Sekizawa adaptations, The Boy from the Blue: Adventures of Poloi, The Story of Quincy and it's 2010 theatrical film Call of the Falcon: A Quincy Story, directed by Tatsuya Ishihara, written by Sekizawa and Reiko Yoshida and featuring the voices of Kana Ueda, Miyu Irino, Tetsuya Kakihara, Kenjirō Tsuda and Shūichi Ikeda. American movie producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, who had previously produced the film adaptation of True Machination, served as an executive producer and was hired by Sekizawa to handle international distribution. The film was released in Japan by Shochiku on February 11, 2012.
An English dubbed version of the film produced by Skywalker Sound and Di Bonaventura Pictures was released to theaters in North America by Paramount Pictures subsidiary Insurge Pictures on August 3, 2012. This version featured the voices of AnnaSophia Robb, Logan Lerman, William H. Macy, Val Kilmer and Jerry Stiller.
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