The Detective Agency for Regretful Male Leads Is Open for Business!

This series turns familiar runaway-wife and regretful-husband plots into cases handled by someone standing outside their romances. Selia's genre awareness gives her investigations a satisfying comic logic: a few suspicious details can reveal which melodramatic trope has swallowed a client's household. That structure provides variety while steadily building her agency, employees, and bond with the boy she rescues. Bright, polished artwork keeps the cases approachable even when they involve abandonment or danger, and Selia feels competent without solving everything effortlessly. The larger romance unfolds more slowly than the episodic premise suggests, however, and the transition from protective found-family feelings to romantic interest may be uncomfortable for some readers. Season one ends before every long-term mystery receives a payoff.