Murder is on the rise, and the bodies keep piling up. For police officer Isogai Shiro, solving these killing sprees is his sole purpose. He'll stop at nothing to find these deranged murderers and has thrown himself entirely into the investigation.

So when a mysterious informant begins tipping off the police about serial killers before they strike again, Isogai sees a chance at a breakthrough. But the source isn't at all what he expected: a young woman named Hinata Kuroi who seems to have a “sixth sense” that helps her find killers.

Together, this unlikely duo dives into the city's darkest corners, hunting monsters in human skin. Because for Isogai, this is more than justice—it's personal.

Tonight, I Have a Date with a Serial Killer has a story by Kon Iguchi and art by Yūji Nakamura. English translation is done by Matthew Jackson and lettering by James Gaubatz. Published by Seven Seas Entertainment (March 17, 2026). Rated 17+.

Content Warning: violence against women

Rebecca Silverman
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For police detective Isogai, catching serial killers is personal. He's not assigned to the task force meant to be stopping them, but that doesn't matter, and when the homicide detectives don't seem all that interested in finding out who a mysterious – and highly accurate – tipster is, he takes it upon himself to locate their informant. Using clues from the crime scenes, he discovers that the tips are coming from a young woman named Hinata, who has an uncanny ability to pinpoint the unknown serial killers roaming free in society. And like Isogai, she has a very personal reason for wanting to hunt them down.

Tonight, I Have a Date with a Serial Killer reminds me very strongly of Remote. It's a fascinating combination of exploitative schlock and solid mystery, and it understands that many serial killer prey upon vulnerable women, even as it tarts that notion up. The killers in this volume are uniformly sexualizing women, whether they're turning them into sculptures in a nod to several works by Edogawa Ranpo or preserving them naked in tanks of formaldehyde. This is stymied somewhat by the fact that artist Yūji Nakamura isn't great at drawing the female body, particularly above the waist; while it's nice that the women aren't uniformly buxom, there's something decidedly off about the way he draws breasts. But the sexual component is meant to show readers how twisted the killers are, so if it fails to be titillating as well, I think that's actually for the best.

Although Isogai is a police detective (to Hinata's astonishment), this is a story of vigilante justice. Hinata's ability to identify serial killers is supernatural in that it seems to be a form of ESP – she sees the number of victims written on the killers' faces when she touches them. Since her track record is perfect, Isogai has no problem believing her – and he's more than willing to work off the grid in order to make use of her power. This first volume contains two cases, one incomplete, and the plotting improves over the course of the second, longer investigation. With more space to draw the story out, the peril Hinata is putting herself in to catch these killers increases, and by the end of the volume it really does feel imperative to keep reading. There's not much of a sense of who Isogai and Hinata are as people outside of their burning desire to solve their personal mysteries and catch serial killers, and I hope that'll be remedied in later volumes, but this does a very good job of pulling readers in. If you like thrillers with a schlocky edge, give this a try.